At the Brentwood Yoga Center we believe in community.  We provide safe, educational, classic yoga to all ages, body shapes, and abilities.  We believe that practicing together as a community creates a supportive atmosphere in which each student is supported and nurtured in order to grow and develop at their own pace. We are registered with Yoga Alliance as a yoga school for those interested in learning all about yoga. We have daily hatha yoga classes, workshops, teacher training, specialty classes, and much more!

 

Some Reasons to Try Yoga

• Stress Relief
• Pain Relief
• Improve Breathing
• Increase Flexibility
• Increase Strength
• Weight Management
• Improve Circulation
• Cardiovascular Conditioning
• Improve Posture, body alignment
• Focus on the Present

Yoga is a holistic system intended to purify the mind, body and spirit.  The most popular form of yoga in the West is called Hatha Yoga which is primarily a practice of poses (called Asanas in sanskrit), breath work (Pranayama), and meditation (Dyana).  But, there is much more to yoga; there are actually five more branches of yoga which create the classic eight branches enumurated by the great sage, Pantanjali.  They are: Yama (universal laws, Niyama (self purification/discipline), Pratahara (withdrawal of the mind/domination of the senses), Dhrana (concentration), and Samadhi (enlightenment).  It is through the holistic, ongoing practice of yoga (Hatha or not) that we experience an incredible sense of well-being, self-realization and a blissful connection to the community. 



"The signs of progress on the path of Yoga are health, a sense of physical lightness, steadiness, clearness of countenance, a beautiful voice, sweetness of odour of the body and freedom from craving.  The yogi has a balanced, serene, tranquil mind.  A yogi is the very symbol of humility.  He/She dedicates all actions to a higher source and takes refuge in it.  This frees the yogi from the bondage of karma (action) and moves him/her to Jivana Mukta (a Liberated Soul)"

Light On Yoga

B.K.S. Iyengar

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