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Find your serenity through balance.  Balancing your mind - clear, honest, respectful, organized thoughts; balancing your spirit - knowing that it is ok to be sad or stressed or happy or hopeful and also knowing how to deal with these emotions; and balancing your body - finding correct alignment in postures and going deeper in your practice.  When we can achieve balance in these areas we can begin to join mind, body and spirit together - thus the meaning of yoga.

Hatha Yoga is the form of yoga that many people think of when hearing the word yoga today.  Hatha yoga focuses on asanas - or postures. (So Iyengar, Bikram, power, gentle... these are all forms of Hatha because they all work with postures.)

There are a myriad of benefits to practicing yoga, some of which include:

Physiological

• improved balance

• decrease in pulse and respiratory rates

• decrease in blood pressure

• gastrointestinal function normalizes

• increase in musculoskeletal flexibility and joint range of motion

• increase in grip strength

• hand-eye coordination improves

• better posture

• increase of endurance and energy level

• better sleep

• better immunity

• proprioception improves

• stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system - balancing out the often over-stimulated sympathetic nervous system

Psychological

• mood improves

• anxiety and depression decrease

• concentration improves

• memory improves

• attention improves

Biochemical

• decrease in glucose

• decrease in sodium

• increase in HDL cholesterol

• decrease in LDL cholesterol

• increase in hematocrit

• increase in hemoglobin

In comparison to other exercises, yoga is non-competitive and balances activity of opposing muscle groups.