The history of yoga goes back many thousands of years to times when man copied animals and when men were warriors, hence we have many poses named for animals and warriors.  Yoga was not just restricted to flexibility and strength, it prepared different energetic parts of the body.  Yoga was used to build great strength to the abdominal region. It helped them to move in slow motion and the slow movement allowed them to harness inner energy.

One of the reasons for the foundation of yoga was to overcome pain and for healing, hence yoga is recuperative.

Today, in our fast paced world, yoga is meant to be “time out”, a way of renewal, revitalisation and refreshment.  Yoga is meant to help you discover a joy, a peace and to overcome rigidity and inflexibility.  It helps deal with apprehension, releases stress and strain and decreases nervous anxiety.  Yet today there is a rush to make it faster and harder, to reflect the lives of people.

Yoga is meant, especially in modern society, to take people to a place they otherwise do not or cannot go to.  It allows them to be in touch with another side, or part of themselves, to try to find a freedom within, a way to express themselves in a fluid and moving form.  It helps you  understand from inside and from outside what is a beautiful posture and how it improves.

Yoga has made its way through all parts of the world.  It has been prevalent in history through all societies, made more popular in some, copied in some and improved in others.

Today yoga can be used to help us cope with the ups and downs of life.  It provides us with the emotional and physical strength to desire and strive for sustained and continual growth during our life. It also helps us become more accepting of the opportunities we receive as well as the circumstances we can’t change, such as illness, accidents, emotional upsets, lack of sleep.

Practicing Symphisis Yoga will help you every day.