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Yoga You4ia

Sep 16, 2019 | 6:58 AM

We live in a day and age where finding time for ourselves is getting harder and harder. Between work, school, family and trying to squeeze in a social life, the stress of every day takes over and sometimes we forget to take care of ourselves. Welcome Yoga.

Yoga isn’t just for seasoned yogis or people who drink chai. Over the past few years, yoga has grown more popular, with the knowledge of its health benefits becoming more widely known. One of the quicker benefits you’ll experience is improved flexibility, which can also lead to a reduction in bodily aches and pains. Tight muscles can affect the body in a number of ways. Tight hips can wreak havoc on your lower body, causing alignment issues that in turn can cause pain in your knees and even your feet. Tight hamstrings can affect your lower spine, causing back pain. Yoga focuses on loosening and strengthening your muscles to help combat pain.

The mental benefits of yoga are another reason it is finding its way into so many people’s routines. Studies have found that practising yoga significantly decreases both anxiety and depression and increases serotonin levels in the brain.

The benefits of yoga are endless; from improved mindfulness, better sleep, reduced inflammation and stress, slowed cellular ageing, improved immune activity, better spine and heart health, osteoporosis prevention, improved lung function… the list goes on. Now it’s time to talk about the next step – actually booking yourself into a class. It’s time for you to start feeling the benefits of yoga and to do so, Yoga You4ia is here to help!

Yoga You4ia opened in Medicine Hat in January of 2013. They are open 7 days a week and offer a ton of classes and different styles of yoga to suit everyone. Whether you’re an experienced yogi or just beginning the practice, you will find the class that fits your needs.

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Warm and hot yoga has become popular amongst the yoga community as a way to encourage building endurance and cleansing the body. Yoga You4ia offers an amazing variety of different warm and hot yoga classes, with temperatures between 28 and 37C depending on which class style you chose.

If yoga in the heat isn’t your thing, Yoga You4ia has a great choice of more classic styles as well. For people brand new to yoga there are a number of classes to ease you into the practice. Their Yoga Foundations class allows for supported practice, or try the Ashtanga Basics class which focuses on the foundations of yoga poses, including breath and flow.

We really mean it – Yoga You4ia has it all! There is Gentle Response yoga, focusing on healing and rejuvenating the body and mind by moving at a slower pace, but yoga isn’t all slow flowing movements at Yoga You4ia. Try HIIT Yoga Fusion for an added challenge. This class blends the benefits of high-intensity interval training with yoga postures to improve cardiovascular fitness and strength. We did say there was something for everyone, didn’t we? These are just some of the many great class options that Yoga You4ia has. Visit their website for a full list of the classes offered.

Yoga You4ia is more than just a studio. They believe in bringing the practice to the community to encourage empowerment, both physically and mentally. They are committed to building a strong

community in and out of the studio and will run classes at schools and offices or for any special event you might want to include a little yoga in!

Get empowered with Yoga You4ia. Whether you’re just starting out or have loved the practice for years, Yoga You4ia is for everybody and every BODY!