Yoga in Wayne County, Tennessee

Yoga is for everyone! Natural Bridge Yoga offers beginning yoga to everyone interested in:

♦ Improved posture
♦ Better balance
♦ Increased natural energy level and vitality
♦ Better sleep
♦ Greater flexibility, strength and stamina
♦ Stronger immune system
♦ Increased cardiovascular and respiratory efficiency
♦ Weight regulation
♦ Cleansing and regulating of all the body’s systems

☼ Being more calm
☼ Having greater confidence
☼ An improved ability to concentrate
☼ Increased awareness of body and movement

Weight Management

In addition to burning calories, yoga has poses that stimulate sluggish glands. The thyroid gland, especially, has a big effect on our weight because it affects body metabolism. Fat metabolism is also increased, so fat is converted to muscle and energy. So you lose fat and have better muscle tone and more vitality.

Also, yoga’s deep breathing increases oxygen intake to the body cells, including fat cells. This causes increased oxidation or burning up of fat cells. Yogic exercises induce more continuous and deeper breathing which gradually burns many of the calories already ingested. And yoga practices that reduce anxiety tend to reduce anxious eating. When we’re nervous, we tend to gulp our food without much satisfaction. If, on the other hand, we approach our meals with calmness, whether produced by habits which have calmed our life (like a pause for prayer before a meal), or by yoga, we tend to be less likely to overeat.

See the class schedule on this page, or contact Karen, a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, at nbyoga@gmail.com. You can also phone her at 931 722-5096.