GROUPS / TEAMS
As a group or team you may be interested in an activity that is not a sport but a system of improving fitness, health and wellbeing; Bikram Yoga is a fantastic way to bring your staff or team together and challenge them in a safe, friendly environment. It may be just what your group or team needs to give them an edge.
Yoga can help with conditioning and a regular practice may help the individual stay ‘on top of their game’. It is holistic and therefore all the body systems will receive due kind attention. It is a challenging discipline in which asanas (postures) are practiced. The asanas are not ballistic, but are practiced whilst grounded, in a methodical way in a heated environment incorporating the breath and full concentration.
Individuals and small groups are always welcome to come to any of the public classes should they wish, subject to available space.
Remove any disconnect by placing the team members or executives, juniors, managers, administrators, trainees in a room practicing this challenging sequence together and they will embark on a journey of discovery breaking down barriers, whilst creating a common ground for connecting with each other and building solidarity.
Discretion would of course be paramount as it is for all our practitioners and the only pre-requisite to practice is proper hydration; Bikram Yoga is not exclusive or reserved for those beings seeking enlightenment J. One of the biggest mis-conceptions I hear repeated is that you have to be flexible to practice. This is not so; nor is flexibility the goal; it is just a nice little ‘side effect’ that comes from a regular practice. So far as flexibility is concerned in any normal public class I would say some of the practitioners are working to maintain their normal range of motion and some are working to get their normal range of motion back such is the world we live in. Nobody is seeking to go over the normal limits of range of motion for their body. Anybody can try this Yoga; there are no advanced postures.
Some of the benefits of a regular Bikram Yoga practice that can be enjoyed:
- great mental hygiene
- reduce stress
- improved concentration
- ever growing sense of well being
- helps a person to know and accept who they are
- more keenness for life and what it has to offer
- restored confidence and hope
- better decision making
- improved personal productivity
- better all round mental and physical health
- explore and know their flexible side
- maintain full spinal flexibility
- improve flexibility and range of motion in tighter joints
- assist with lengthening of muscles that have become tight/short
- can help prevent and reduce sports injury
- help with recovery from injury
- counter the keyboard slump (gardening, study, cooking, general labour slump)
- improved strength and endurance
- perhaps achieve a longer playing life as strength and vitality is sustained for longer
- decrease illness and absenteeism
- a more cohesive team and improved relationships
- increase happiness