Benefits of Yoga at Firefly Yoga Studio
Benefits of Firefly Flow Yoga, a Vinyasa-style yoga
- Relieves stress and improves overall strength
- Improves balance, flexibility and coordination
- Reduces lower back pain and sciatica
- Cleanses, detoxifies and helps bring nutrients to all organs
- Improves circulation of oxygen and nutrients to active muscles
- Opens, aerates and increases capacity of lungs
- Reduces blood glucose levels and blood pressure
- Balances the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
- Helps to regulate and balance hormones
- Decreases clinical symptoms of anxiety, tension and depression
- Increases awareness, alertness and brain function
- Cleanses and purifies the mind
- Relieves aches and pains
Benefits of Prenatal Yoga
- Improves blood pressure and circulation
- Encourages a deep state of relaxation
- Creates openness throughout the body and mind
- Reduces swelling and inflammation around the joints
- Reduces aches and fatigue in the thoracic and cervical regions of the spine
- Alleviates many pregnancy-related discomforts such as nausea, constipation, varicose veins, swelling, back pain and sciatica
- Teaches breath exercises that focus and calm the mind in preparation for childbirth
- Teaches how to open the hips and other techniques to improve labor and delivery
Benefits of Hot Yoga
- Promotes sweating, assisting the detoxification process using the largest organ of elimination, the skin
- Allows blood to become thinner, clearing the circulatory system. Capillaries dilate, allowing oxygen into muscles, tissues, glands and organs, also aiding in removal of waste products
- Allows muscles, fascias and connective tissues to become elastic, lessening the chance of injury
- When the body temperature raises three to five degrees above normal temperature, activity of the thymus gland is multiplied 20-fold. T cells fight infection, thus ensuring the immune system is functioning properly
- Allows for a greater mobility of joints as warmer temperatures produce a fluid-like stretch
- Elevates heart rate, improving the cardiovascular system
- Burns more calories as muscles are heated up-between 350 and 500 calories per 75-minute class-helping to aid in the use of fat for energy
