Restorative Yoga
Sally’s restorative yoga classes create a caring, supportive environment for the student to awaken to deep, restorative relaxation and healing. Each class is crafted around helping the student gently open her body, bring awareness to the breath, connect mind and body and experience deep relaxation in order to facilitate healing.
Restorative yoga is an eclectic hatha yoga style which blends yoga poses (asanas) and breathwork (pranayama) to stretch, strengthen, open and release through the entire body. Attention and respect is given to each individual student’s physicality, mental state, and emotional needs.
Classes with Sally are a step away from the rush of life. They are a meditative flow, from guided relaxation, to warm-up and flow, back to rest in final relaxation.
Dr Herbert Benson has pioneered a 30-year study on stress reduction at the Mind Body Medical Institute at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Follow the steps to creating the Relaxation Response.
Dr Benson’s studies show that the Relaxation Response:-
• decreases metabolism
• slows heart rate
• slows breathing
• relaxes muscles
• decreases blood pressure.
