September is National Yoga Awareness Month. 

National Yoga Awareness Month was started in 2008 by the US Department of Health and Human Services. It is an initiative to raise awareness about the benefits of yoga.

Yoga has lots of benefits. National Yoga Awareness Month strives to introduce people to the wide range of benefits that yoga offers:

• Physical Benefits

• Mental Benefits

• Reduced Stress

• Increased Calm

• Increased Nutrition Awareness

• Increased Focus & Concentration

• Enhanced Longevity

• Increased Flexibility

• Enhanced Quality of Life

To honor National Yoga Awareness Month:

•  spend a little more time on your yoga mat or on your meditation cushion 

• Read some of the Yoga Sutras or some other class yoga text

• Practice some asanas that you don’t practice often

• Hold some of your favorite asanas longer

• Focus on one aspect of your asana practice such as body alignment or breath

• Introduce a friend or family member to the wonders of yoga

Yoga is a very personalized practice. It is the bringing together of you with your true self.

Yoga is a practice of self discovery and self refinement.

Yoga starts with the physical and turns inward. 

Yoga is a “work in” not a “work out.”

Share this gift with yourself and others during National Yoga Awareness Month.