How To Reduce Stress With Yoga Video

Yoga can help reduce stress and calm the body. Learn about yoga poses in this video yoga lesson.

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Purify the breath
Try relaxation poses
Calm fight or flight response

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. Yoga is the perfect way to release stress from the body. The system is designed to work the body with the postures, purify the breath so that you release the toxins from the body allowing them--you to become less full of stress. We also have relaxation poses which are designed to release the stress from your body and integrate all the moves that you have done. Coming through some of the moves actually lets your body think it is under stress or under the fight or flight mode of the sympathetic nervous system. That way your body will switch from the sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic nervous system. It sends in extra blood to calm down the body to put you in cool down mode rather than stress mode. So when you work the body with the postures, you purify the breath with the breathing exercises and come into relaxation, it is the perfect system for releasing stress and tension from the body.

How to Reduce Stress With Yoga Video

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