By Lara Alexiou
The Health Benefits of Cultivating Gratitude through Hot Yoga
As the season of gratitude descends, let's take a look within. No time to stop and reflect? It's time for yoga!
The season of gratitude is upon us. But if you don't actually take the time to stop, reflect and look inward, you lose sight of the joy, generosity and peace of the season.
Inner peace is just that - inner, as in found within. With all of the externals that pull on you daily like work, family, and even social media, the importance of carving out specific time in your week just for you and your easily neglected inner-life is imperative.
Committing to weekly Hot Yoga classes makes self-care a priority.
With regular practice, not only will you see the physical results from your Hot Yoga practice, like more mobility and less chronic pain, but you're mind will quiet too. So often our students tell us that taking class is the only part of their day where all stress falls away. They leave the Hot Yoga room relaxed and recharged. They enter the world again from that quiet internal space where gratitude, self love and compassion reside. Hot Yoga reveals your infinite capacity for compassion, patience, and peace.
Self-Care ~ Self-Love~ Gratitude
Enjoying a Hot Yoga practice is way of experiencing self love where everyone benefits. So many of our students say that through regular practice, they have learned to feel comfortable in their own skin and happier in their lives.You don't have to take my word for it - strike up a conversation out in the great hall where students gather before class and you'll discover that inner peace and gratitude are a natural part of this practice. The self care aspect of Hot Yoga keeps many of our students returning class after class and year after year.
It goes deeper than the sparkle of a good sweat.
In Taoist Philosophy and Traditional Chinese Medicine, emotionally, the Fall Season can be associated with depression. It's a great time to cut away excess, reflect on what is really important to us and reap the benefits of a personal harvest. A regular yoga practice provides the quiet time to help you put things in perspective to see what habits in your life are serving you and what habits are no longer serving you and need to fall away.
Hot Yoga to Ward off the Chill
- Keep the body and mind supple as the cold, contractile & brittle effects of winter approach
- Bring your emotional state into balance: let stress fall away so you can enjoy the season!
- Gratitude! Go within for inner peace- give yourself the pace and time to appreciate where you are in this moment
- Connection: group classes keep us social as the days darken.
- Our classes are for all levels, making today a great day to get started or return to your mat!
