Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga helps to combat the physical and mental effects of everyday stress.
And eases common ailments such as headaches, backaches, anxiety, and insomnia with the use of restful poses and deep breathing techniques.
Use supports and props all to find ultimate comfort during a passive release. These poses last up to 20 nurturing minutes
Benefits include:
- Deeply relaxes the body
- Stills the mind
- Improves capacity for healing and balancing
- Balances the nervous and immune system
- Boosts immunity
- Enhances your mood
In a restorative class, you may hardly move at all as it is a completely different experience than most contemporary yoga. Clinical research into restorative yoga has found that it can decrease depression in cancer survivors; improve symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain symptoms in cancer patients; and help patients manage the toxicity of cancer treatments.
By using soothing, comforting asana’s, relaxing the muscles, sinking into props such as blankets and pillows, it is then that the parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated which promotes the body’s own natural healing process.
