Yoga & Meditation
Our Yoga department offers comprehensive yoga practices designed to enhance physical, mental, and spiritual well-being through guided sessions tailored to individual needs.
Yoga & Ayurveda
Yoga and Ayurveda are mutually supportive systems of health, spirituality, and well-being. Yoga is an ancient discipline of uniting mind, body, and spirit that developed in India about 5,000 years ago. Ayurveda, which means “life knowledge” in Sanskrit, is a system of health science that was developed at the same time as yoga. Both yoga and Ayurveda were first mentioned in Indian spiritual texts called the “Vedas,” which date back to around 3,000 BCE.
Yoga for Your Dosha
Both Ayurveda and yoga seek to bring forth a sattvic state. As you try various styles of yoga, during different seasons and with different teachers, you might notice that you feel sattvic, rajasic, or tamasic after you practice. If your dosha is Kapha, for example, you might find that a slow-moving class causes you to become tamasic. If you’re Vata, a fast-paced Vinyasa class might be overwhelmingly rajasic.Learning the style of yoga that suits you best can create a deeply fulfilling practice for a lifetime. Below are a few examples of “asanas” (Sanskrit for “yoga poses”) that can help bring each dosha into balance.
Combined Forces for Holistic Health
The path of yoga seeks to unite body, mind, and spirit through meditation, breath work, philosophy, physical movement, and behavior principles. Ayurveda seeks to heal and prevent disease by harmonizing everyday life with the rhythms of nature. This is done through diet, exercise, yoga, herbs, lifestyle, and body cleansing. Ayurveda is considered the sister science of yoga.Both yoga and Ayurveda offer ways to heal, cleanse, and rejuvenate the body, mind, and spirit. As you move deeper into your yoga practice, it can be helpful to integrate your knowledge of Ayurveda so you can adjust your practice to your own unique constitution and lifestyle. Doing so can help prevent disease, while keeping you balanced, happy, and fulfilled.
