Mind&Body

1. Hatha Yoga

• • Focus: Balance and alignment
  • Description: Hatha yoga is ideal for beginners and focuses on physical postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation. It’s excellent for developing flexibility, balance, and a calm mind.

2. Vinyasa Yoga

• • Focus: Dynamic flow of movement
  • Description: Vinyasa yoga sequences are fluid, and movements are synchronized with breath. This style is more vigorous and athletic, providing a good cardiovascular workout.

3. Ashtanga Yoga

• • Focus: Strength and discipline
  • Description: This is a rigorous style of yoga that follows a specific sequence of postures and is very physically demanding. It’s great for building core strength and toning the body.

4. Iyengar Yoga

• • Focus: Precision and alignment
  • Description: Iyengar yoga is known for its use of props, such as belts, blocks, and blankets, to perform asanas perfectly. The focus is on alignment and detailed, structured movement.

5. Bikram Yoga

• • Focus: Detoxification
  • Description: Performed in a heated room to promote sweating, Bikram yoga consists of a series of 26 poses designed to cleanse and detoxify the body. It also aids in weight loss.

6. Kundalini Yoga

• • Focus: Spiritual and physical awakening
  • Description: Kundalini yoga emphasizes rapid movement through the poses and is designed to release the “Kundalini energy” in the body said to be trapped in the lower spine.

7. Yin Yoga

• • Focus: Deep tissue stretching and relaxation
  • Description: Yin yoga is a meditative approach to yoga that aims at cultivating awareness of inner silence. It involves variations of seated and supine poses typically held for 3 to 5 minutes, accessing deeper layers of fascia.

8. Restorative Yoga

• • Focus: Healing and relaxation
  • Description: This yoga style is focused on relaxation, healing, and recuperation. Poses are held for a long time with the support of props to completely relax and restore the body and mind.

9. Power Yoga

• • Focus: Building internal heat, increased stamina, strength, and flexibility
  • Description: Power yoga is a more active approach to the traditional principles of yoga and is great for those looking to make their workouts more dynamic and challenging.

10. Anusara Yoga

• • Focus: Heart-opening poses
  • Description: Anusara combines a strong emphasis on physical alignment with a positive philosophy based on a belief in the intrinsic goodness of all beings. Sessions often focus on heart-opening poses like backbends and more.