A: Yoga sessions can help people of all ages and abilities. It is an ancient practice that uses physical postures, breathing exercises, meditation, and other techniques to promote physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
The breathing techniques help release stress by activating the relaxation response and increasing blood circulation.
The physical postures and exercises help in improved flexibility and balance. Increased strength.
Meditation techniques promote improved self-awareness, focus, and patience while reducing negative emotions and alleviating stress.
TRATAKA
Gazing Eye Exercises
25-30 Minutes
Cleanse and comfort your eyes with this revitalizing cleansing technique. In this therapy, guests are asked to focus on one point (such as a point on the wall, a candlelight, or the tip of a thumb), until tears fall from their eyes. The eyes are then given a soft touch by the palms for a minute.
Benefits: This increases the power of concentration and helps you focus better. It improves cognitive functions, boosts eyesight and makes the eye muscles strong. It also brings about emotional balance, induces relaxation and calmness and helps you be more at peace with yourself. This exercise can improve eyesight, concentration, and mental stability.
ASANA
The Asana or yoga postures are not just simple physical exercises but rather used holistically as a mind-body practice to improve physical, mental, and spiritual health. Asanas are part of the Group Yoga practice, a branch of yoga combining physical movements and breathing techniques. A number of sitting, reclining, standing, inverted, twisting and balancing postures are taught here at YO1 as per individual need.
Benefits:Asana are performed to improve flexibility, strength and balance. The use of breathing and focus during practice can help relieve stress and anxiety. Yoga asanas offer total mental and physical wellness. Regular practice increases flexibility, strength and balance. Breath control is a big part of these asanas and this improves lung function. You can also bring down your stress levels and boost immunity to keep illnesses at bay.
NAADI SHODHANAM
Alternate Nostril Breathing Exercises
15-20 Minutes
In this breathing technique, guests inhale slow and deep breaths through one nostril and exhale from the other nostril. This pattern is repeated 5-10 times and inhalation and exhalation alters between nostrils.
Benefits: This alternative breathing pattern brings balance to the left nostril (Chandra naadi) and the right nostril (Surya naadi).This breathing technique help in the removal of congestion and blockage to bring about a state where there is free flow of Prana. It instills a sense of calmness and improves circulation. Regular practice will also enhance your immunity and help your body fight off pathogens.
SURYA BHEDANA
Right Nostril Breathing
15-20 Minutes
The practice of Surya Bhedana Pranayama is done by inhaling completely through the right nostril, holding the breath and then exhaling through the left nostril.
Benefits: A breathing technique that stimulates the brain and increases body heat, it awakens energy and increases vitality. Regular practice will improve clarity. You can also lose weight and rid your body of bacteria and pathogens with this technique. This right nostril breathing activates Pingala nadi, which represents masculine sun energy. It increases the digestive fire.
UJJAYEE
Psychic Breathing Exercises
15-20 Minutes
For this technique, the guest sits in a comfortable meditative posture with their eyes closed. The guest then inhales through the nose by congesting the throat, creating a hoarse gushing sound. This is repeated in the exhalation process too and should be carried out for 5 to 10 rounds.
Benefits: This yoga technique will regulate your blood pressure levels, induce calmness and relaxation and rejuvenate your entire being. You can fight insomnia, nervousness and chronic stress with this technique.
SHEETALI
Cooling Breath Exercise
10-15 Minutes
Sheetali Pranayama is practiced by sticking your tongue out and rolling the lateral edges upward so that the tongue forms a tube. Guests will then inhale through the curled tongue. It is also known as Cooling Breath Exercise.
Benefits: You can perform this pranayama to get rid of indigestion, fever and excessive thirst. It also helps fight diseases of the spleen and cools the body and mind down. It is very good for people with high blood pressure, psychosomatic disorder and digestion disorders. It is very effective in calming the emotions. This practice balances Pitta and clears excess heat.
SHEETKARI
Hissing Breath Exercise
10-15 Minutes
Sheetkari Pranayama is practiced by folding the tongue inwards and placing it in between the teeth. Guests will then inhale through the gap between the folded tongue and exhale through the nose. This is recommended for yogis who have difficulty practicing Sheetali Pranayama.
Benefits: This practice is used to regulate the body temperature and still the mind. It also controls hunger and thirst, reduces stress, helps lower blood pressure and benefits those fighting insomnia.
BHRAMARI
Humming Bee Breathing Exercises
20-25 Minutes
For this breathing exercise, the guest is seated in a comfortable position to practice inhalation and exhalation through a humming sound. It is also known as ‘Humming Bee Pranayama’.
Benefits: This unique yoga practice regulates the functioning of the endocrine system, relaxes the brain, calms the mind and keeps frustration and anxiety at bay. It is also good for regulating blood pressure levels. Regular practice will keep stress and fatigue away and improve concentration and memory. This therapy builds confidence, cures insomnia and also activates the pituitary gland.This gives the effect of sound vibration all over the body and can release the mind of agitation. It strengthens and improves the voice, supports the healing of bodily tissues, induces sound sleep and soothes the nerves.
BHASTRIKA
Bellows Breathing Exercises
15-20 Minutes
It is done by exhaling and contracting the abdominal muscles quickly and forcefully, followed by a quick diaphragmatic inhalation and letting the abdominal muscles relax completely.
Benefits: A highly energizing practice, this stimulates the digestive fire, balances the three doshas and rejuvenates your lungs. It helps in expelling germs and mucus from the body and helps in the treatment of asthma, tuberculosis, pleurisy and bronchitis. It also corrects your breathing pattern and boosts circulation and metabolic rate besides calming your mind. The practice of bhastrika energizes every atom of the body and purifies it. It helps increase Prana, clarify the mind and strengthen immunity.
MEDITATION
Meditation is about training ourselves in awareness. One is learning to observe thoughts or feelings, without judgment and eventually start to understand them. It helps to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state by easing the mind and reducing stress. Types of meditations we offer here are Mantra meditation, Breath awareness, Vipassana, and guided/ visual meditations.
Benefits: Regular meditation enhances awareness, induces mental tranquility and helps you relax. You are able to transcend the limitations of your mind and reach greater heights. It increases intuitive powers and instills a positive attitude towards life. You can overcome your fears and limitations by meditating daily. Meditation helps fight addictions, improves sleep, helps control pain, reduces stress and anxiety, promotes clearer thinking and brain power, increases attention span and memory, enhances self-awareness, promotes emotional health and may lower blood pressure.
YOGA NIDRA
30-45 Minutes
Yoga Nidra or Psychic Sleep is a guided relaxation where one achieves a state between wakefulness and sleep. The awareness is internalized in Yoga Nidra which is sleep with full awareness. In the practice of Yoga Nidra, the body sleeps but the mind remains awake listening to the instructions. The instructor verbally guides one through a journey of body, mind, spirit and breath exploration as well as using images and verbal cues to help one feel deeply relaxed, moving in and out of this hypnogogic state.
Benefits: This deep relaxation technique eradicates deep rooted psychological complexes and inhibitions and induces deep sleep. Regular practice can make you more intuitive. Your sensitivity to pain goes down and you may experience better self-healing. It harmonises the pranic flow in the body and improves self-confidence.Yoga Nidra heals trauma, reduces PMS symptoms, improves sleep, lower stress levels, and reduces chronic pain.
VINYASA YOGA
45-60 Minutes
Vinyasa Yoga is a steady and continuous flow of postures that incorporates breath with movement. Surya Namaskar, or Sun Salutations are a key part of a Vinyasa yoga class.
Benefits: Sun salutations help align the chakras and bring to the body, the energy of the sun thus increasing vitality. Vinyasa Yoga also builds internal heat and can help to detoxify the body. This yoga is fast-paced and athletic, its strength-building approach also helps to improve cardiovascular and respiratory health and increase bone density.The asanas here are designed to boost overall fitness and energy levels. It can reduce stress and promote relaxation. It corrects body posture and boosts cardiovascular health and mental clarity. Regular practice will tone and strengthen your muscles, detoxify your body and boost your immune system.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
30-45 Minutes
Restorative Yoga is a practice that is all about slowing down and opening your body through passive stretching with the use of props to support the body in a way that gravity aids in the performance. Postures are held for a longer duration so that one will have more time to settle into the pose and truly relax.
Benefits: As the name suggests, this technique restores balance in your body and improves flexibility, relaxes the body and the mind, enhances healing and fastens recovery. It can help in pain management too. It instills mindfulness and brings down stress levels. Restorative Yoga helps reduce cortisol levels in the body which may help you lose subcutaneous body fat, boosts the immune system, optimizes energy flow to the organs, reduces the fight or flight stress response, speeds up the healing process and soothes the emotions.
INTRODUCTORY PACKAGE
Lakeview King Guest Rooms & Suites
Full access to our state-of-the-art wellness facility
Daily Itinerary:
- 1 Massage
- 1 Acupuncture
- Vegetarian breakfast & dinner
- 2 Yoga sessions
Starting at $724
DISCOVER YOUR DOSHA
Lakeview King Guest Rooms & Suites
Dosha reading session with the Ayurvedic counselor (30 min)
Full access to our state-of-the-art wellness facility
Daily Itinerary:
- 1 Ayurvedic therapy based on Dosha (Vata/Pitta/Kapha)
- All meals for the day
- 1 morning Yoga session
- 1 evening Yoga Nidra session
- Q & A sessions on request in our indoor theater
Starting at $874
RESTORATIVE PACKAGE
Lakeview King Guest Rooms & Suites
Full access to our state-of-the-art wellness facility
Daily Itinerary:
- 1 Massage
- 1 Mud Therapy or Hydrotherapy
- 2 Yoga sessions
- Daily Meals & fresh, cold-pressed juice
