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  • Yoga is an ancient practise originally from India and commercialised by the West from the 1960s.Yoga is a great way to improve your health and wellbeing. There are many styles of yoga and as a student it is important to try different styles and teachers to see which one suits you. Regardless of which style you eventually connect with, yoga teaches us to be aware of our bodies at a physical, emotional and spiritual level.

    Yoga also helps to develop an awareness of the breath, it is essentially a breathing exercise. Proper breathing increases the oxygen capacity and in turn nourishes every cell in our body and calms the nervous system.  This is how we begin to realise the goal of yoga "yogas chitta vritti nirodhah", which roughly translated means to control the modifications of the mind, to be unbound by the outside world.

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