Daytime Yoga Teens & Adults

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Yoga provides a wide variety of benefits to practitioners. Using breathing practices (Pranayama) and body postures (Asana), the practice of Yoga provides a range of ways to increase overall well-being. Specifically, with regular practice, practitioners will increase muscle strength, improve balance, increase body awareness, improve range of motion in joints, and experience greater relaxation and ability to focus. STEPVA participants in Yoga have shown, and continue to show, remarkable growth in all of these areas, as well as experiencing benefits unique to the individual participants.

STEPVA YOGA BENEFITS

Increased Muscle Strength

• Warrior poses
• Plank
• Wall push ups
• Wall sits
• Time in balance poses
• Ability to transition between poses
• Series practice

Improved Balance

• Tree poses without wall
• Reduced use of wall for dancer/tree
• Reduced use of wall for transition in balance poses
• Time in standing poses – warrior, triangle

Increased Body Awareness

• Alternating side poses
• Alignment within poses
• Reduced verbal direction to find correct placements
• Series practice
• One side isolation
• Opposite side movements

Improved Range of Motion in Joints

• Neck and back – cat/cow
• Ankles, knees, hips – warrior, triangle, forward fold
• Wrists, elbows, shoulders – shoulder stretches, arm circles
• Pelvis and back – forward fold, bench, bridge

Increased Relaxation/Ability to Focus

• Time in Savasana (guided relaxation)
• Silent time
• Focus during breathwork
• Time within individual breathing exercises
• Total time in relaxation and breathing exercises