01.Lowers stress and improves your mood

Some yoga methods use specific meditation techniques, which focus the mind on your breathing to
quieten the constant ‘mind chatter’, relieves stress and allow you to feel relaxed. Practising these
breathing techniques on a yoga and meditation retreat can also boost oxygen levels to the brain,
leaving you feeling happier and more content with everyday life.

02.Boosts confidence

Aside from the uplifting spiritual values, the act of meditation can actually boost your confidence.
The process works by releasing tension from your mind, so that you can feel confident about your
physical body. Without any forms of anxiety, you are able to establish an internal connection with
yourself. This is consequently reflected in your perception of others and will help to better your
relationships by improving compassion and awareness.

03.Lowers the risk of injury

Exercise such as running is usually a series of rapid, forceful movements, which means that effort is
at a maximum and there is a higher risk of injury and increased muscle tension. Often, strenuous
exercise also engages an imbalance of opposing muscle groups, whereas yoga concentrates on
balancing this activity. Unite your body and mind on a yoga and fitness holiday which will allow to
combine more intense workouts with low-impact yoga.

04.Helps you lose weight

Being overweight is a sign that there are imbalances in your everyday life and one major contributor
to weight gain is excess stress. Practising yoga enables you to bring a deep sense of relaxation to
your body and your mind, helping you to de-stress and allowing you to lose weight naturally.

05.Increases flexibility

People often say that they are not flexible enough to do yoga. The truth is, it doesn’t matter how
tight your muscles are as yoga asanas works by safely stretching your muscles and help you to
practise it further. Moreover, yoga also stretches other soft tissue in the body such as ligaments and
tendons, increasing the range of motion in the joints and allowing you to move around more freely.

06.Improves muscle tone and strength

Many yoga asanas have a profound effect on your upper body strength, such as the downward and
upward dog, whilst the plank focuses on your core. Likewise, standing poses strengthen your upper
leg muscles and lower back. Essentially any pose will strengthen an area of the body if it is practised
in the right way, without putting too much stress on specific muscle groups

07.Benefits breathing and lowers blood pressure

If you practise yoga consistently, your lung capacity will increase as a result of the deep breathing
process. This will then have a positive effect on more intense sports that you might be a part of,
increasing your stamina and endurance. Furthermore, meditation and calming yoga asanas slow
down your heart rate which in turn lowers blood pressure and have also been linked with improving
the immune system and lowering cholesterol.

08.Improves your posture

By practising yoga you maintain a healthier weight, become more flexible and improve your muscle
tone and strength. You will find that your posture will greatly improve because of this. Your
abdominals and back muscles can now fully support your weight and you will be able to sit and stand
tall, preventing niggling injuries, aches and pains.