Kevala Health Yoga for Anxiety
Supported Bridge pose helps to reduce Anxiety.
Yoga to Reduce Anxiety and Promote Calmness
Anyone who suffers from anxiety will know how this can make everyday living a challenge and affect all areas of your life from work to relationships. When you become anxious or stressed the mind gets carried away with thoughts and worry, which can lead to reduced sleep and other health issues. Yoga is the perfect way to lower anxiety and manage symptoms.
In research, if you practice about 20-30 minutes of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness daily you can manage anxiety symptoms. In meditation, you learn to stay present and detach from thoughts and emotions to help keep the mind clear and promote inner calmness. You can start meditation daily with just a few minutes a day or learn more about meditation in our live online yoga classes.
In a Kevala Yoga live class, you learn breathwork, meditation, yoga postures, and relaxation, which is good for anxiety sufferers and also helps build strength and flexibility in the mind and body. When the body is stressed mentally and emotionally it causes tightness and tension in the whole body.
6 Reasons Why Yoga is Good for Anxiety
Releases tension and tightness caused by stress:
When we feel stressed or anxious, certain areas of the body will tense without us even realizing it, which affects our breathing, and posture and even cause back issues.
Improves sleep patterns:
A relaxed mind and body sleep better.
Increases body awareness:
In yoga, you learn to improve body awareness, which means you get to know what feels good for the body and what does not. Then you learn the signs when the body and mind start to tense and start to make changes before it gets out of control. Yoga teaches us to let go more.
Movements help release natural feel-good hormones and improve circulation
Improved breathing:
When a person is anxious or stressed their breathing becomes faster, shorter, and uneven. In yoga, we focus on slow, smooth, even breaths to help relax the body and mind. Read more here on breathing techniques to reduce anxiety.
Yoga teaches self-care and acceptance:
When we are busy or stressed we generally stop doing things that are good for us, like eating healthy and getting enough sleep. It’s important to take time out for self-care and look after ourselves, especially during stressful times. In Kevala Health online yoga we learn to connect and open our hearts to feel more compassion and acceptance. Learning to accept ourselves reduces body image issues at all ages, especially as we get older.
Kevala Health Australia live stream yoga classes are great for anyone with anxiety, as we encourage slow mindful movements, linking with our breath. You can do our classes while in the comfort of your home, with all your support using cushions and blankets.
More information on anxiety is here.
