How can one to one sessions benefit you? If you are a beginner and would like to get started in yoga and without being overwhelmed. You would like to reach the next level in your practice. If you have injuries or health concerns. You would like to target problem areas such as tight hips/hamstrings or weak knees. If you would like to increase your mental focus in anyway. You want to work towards a specific physical goal such as increased flexibility, balance, or strength. You would like to add yoga to your weight-loss or strength-training program to cross-train for marathons or triathlons. If you would like to learn more about yourself , gaining awareness.
Traditionally in India yoga was taught on a one to one basis. Whilst all yoga supports you physically, emotionally, and spiritually, one-to-one yoga lets you work on specifics as an individual at a pace that is suitable. There are several reasons why you should add private sessions to your weekly practice. A yoga practice develops according to a plan. It progresses in steps, and gets constantly refined and reassessed over time. In this way you can improve fitness and wider health you can also adress specific health matters and injuries. Yoga done in this way, will help to heal lifestyle issues, practical issues, and psychological issues. The solutions offered to these problems are based on yoga teachings, as well as experience, insight and intuition.
Research into the benefits of Yoga
| Behavioral | Physical | Mental | Physiological | Personality |
| Reduced weight | Increased Fitness | Increased Concentration | Increased EEG Alpha | Reduced Anxiety |
| Reduced Nervousness | Reduced reactivity to stressors | Increased memory | Increased respiratory efficiency and competence | Reduced depression |
| Reduced Health complaints | Increased flexibility | Increased intelligence quotient | Reduced oxygen consumption | Increased conflict resolution |
| Increased Calm |
Increased relaxation | Reduced mental fatigability | Reduced respiratory rate | Increased openness to experience |
| Reduced psychological complaints | Reduced muscular electrical activity (EMG) | Increased performance quotient | Increased lung capacity | Reduced defensiveness |
| Increased Relaxation | Increased muscle tone | increased shift in sequence of ideas | increased breathe holding time | Reduced guilt |
| Increased tidal volume | Reduced tension and instability | |||
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Students who did yoga 4 times a week which included 10 mins of breathing exercises, 15mins of warm ups and 50 mins of posture work.
After just 8 weeks of yoga:-
Source: University of California Venice 2002 |
Increased cardiovascular efficiency | Reduced hostility | ||
| reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure | Reduced submissiveness | |||
| Reduced heart rate | Reduced self-criticism | |||
| Increased blood flow | Increased assertiveness | |||
| increased immune system | Increased body image | |||
