You have heard the word Yoga and you think it means stretching. You have heard that it can improve your health but you don't know how. At Manly Vale Yoga we can show you how to stretch and strengthen your body, your mind, and improve your health and vitality, regardless of how young or old. In fact, the older you are the better you get!

Our personalised yoga classes with qualified teachers offer you this experience. Come and learn how to align your body without injury or strain.  Build your strength, health and confidence through carefully arranged sequences of postures (asanas) as developed by B.K.S.Iyengar.

You are encouraged to develop your own yoga practice and our classes reflect that. Manly Vale Yoga has been on the Northern Beaches for over 10 years offering children's and teenager's classes, beginner adult through to experienced.

Benefits

• Calm your mind, increase your concentration, relieve stress and tension
• Learn how to tone muscles, acquire suppleness, stimulate the circulation and improve overall health
• Stretch, relax and learn breath awareness and control
• Learn how to practice yoga safely
• Practical, easy-to-follow instructions for simple postures that work on all the body systems
• Trained teachers in the Iyengar Hatha Yoga method, the form of yoga most practiced today

About Iyengar Yoga

YOGA builds physical health through the practice of a system of exercises called asanas which keep the body cleansed and fit. It is believed that exercise is essential for the speedy removal of toxins and for keeping blood circulation and all internal processes functioning smoothly. Yoga also looks at the mental side of life. Different breathing techniques quieten the mind and brain, offering inner peace and the ability to face upheavals and deal with problems.

Bringing both these aspects together is the philosophy of yoga.

IYENGAR YOGA is a dynamic, systematic approach to Hatha yoga (poses and breathing) as developed by B.K.S. Iyengar.
The focus is on precision and alignment while building strength and flexibility. Props may be used to facilitate the student to get a sense of the full pose and prevent strain or injury.

Iyengar yoga is often chosen as the style of yoga that helps in concerns of backache, neck, shoulder, hip and knee pain as well as organic ailments. Mr Iyengar is reknown for his wholistic health sequences that have brought pain relief to many people such as violinist Yuhudi Menuhin who states:
"It [yoga]is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance. By its very nature it is inextricably associated with universal laws: respect for life, truth, and patience are all indispensible factors in the drawing of a quiet breath, in calmness of mind and firmness of will....

...it demands a complete and total effort, involving and forming the whole human being."

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