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Increase fitness, well-being and energy with a regular yoga practice

Feel bright, fresh, alive and vibrant

Let yoga make a difference in your life, you'll finish your first yoga class a bright, fresh, alive, and vibrant you! What are you waiting for? Are you waiting to be slimmer, more flexible, to have more time, to give up smoking or drinking? Anyone can begin yoga at any time; it’s an engaging and enjoyable practice. Regardless of your age, weight or physical fitness, you can do yoga. It works for couch potatoes and athletes alike; yoga postures are modified for the needs of each individual student. In your yoga session you’ll be encouraged to explore and to understand your limits. You’ll be guided into postures using safe alignment principles. You'll learn how to connect to your breath and how to relax deeply. You'll become more confident and content with who you are right now. Take that first step into a whole new world of enhanced well-being by arranging a yoga class with me.

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"the classes were one and a half hours of bliss" Daisy Frossard

BrightonUpyoga can change your life

The physical benefits:

A regular yoga practice will give you a toned, flexible and strong body. It'll improve your respiration, energy and vitality. You can help your body to maintain a balanced metabolism (great for weight loss). You'll strengthen your heart and promote good circulation. From your first yoga session you'll release tension and relieve pain. In a safe environment you'll learn how to prevent injuries and work towards healing injuries. Yoga boosts your immune system, improves your athletic performance and keeps you youthful.

The mental benefits:

You'll develop tools to relax and handle stressful situations more effectively, which will give you a greater sense of ease and a sense of having more time. Cultivating mental clarity and concentration on the mat will strengthen your trust in your own intuition in daily life. You'll learn how to create space in your mind so you can focus your energy where you want it to go. Your yoga practice will encourage positive thoughts and self-acceptance. As well as a flexible body you'll develop a flexible mind.

Complete detoxification:

The combination of breath and movement flushes the build up of toxins from the body, both man made and natural. The breath helps to stretch and relax the muscles, plus it massages the internal organs. A yoga practice optimises the blood supply full of fresh nutrients to the entire body. It works as a systematic fine tuning that releases the tension that accumulates in the skeletal-muscular system from the routine grind of modern life. Freeing the flow of energy in the body alone contributes to a calmer mind, a brighter complexion and a relaxed demeanour.

The spiritual benefits:

Build a fresh awareness of your body, with your feelings, with the world around you and with the needs of others. A regular yoga practice will develop your inner strength and resources, you'll feel a greater sense of connection and purpose. Yoga will instantly improve the quality of your day, it will enhance your creativity and your ability to respond to every situation. Discover how to grow more peaceful, more spacious and more present.

"Each class has been amazingly different in a wonderful way! I'm becoming aware of my body and of every little muscle, joint and bone. Beth is a professional teacher, very considerate and extremely tender. She is the perfect yoga teacher!!!" Sybile Cusack

Beth Wood lives in Cihangir and is able to travel to give yoga classes
contact: bwoodb@hotmail.co.uk

what you need

All you need is comfortable clothing, a yoga mat and a light blanket for deep relaxation at the end of your practice.

Beth Wood's Teaching Certificate is accredited by Yoga Alliance