Yoga increases body awareness, the body/mind connection. We live in such a cerebral world, yoga can slow you down and get you in touch with your body?s needs.

It?s a self-study of the mind, of what?s going on in your head by sitting and watching and being the observer of all that?s going on in your body. ?My hip hurts.? ?I have an itch. If I don?t scratch it, what happens?? Well, it usually goes away if you train yourself not to automatically react. Yoga teaches us that everything changes.

You learn to train the mind to stay more focused. We?re not always present. We?re usually thinking about the past or worrying about the future, which creates stress and emotional anxiety. If you find the balance between effort and relaxation and don?t let your mind get carried away, you can react to that stress. You?re able to stay more calm and centered during a stressful situation.

Yoga connects (students) to the community. It's an easy way to make a connection. It's very good for the body and it's a challenge.

Yoga is establishing an harmonious connection to your inner world with outer world.

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps. ...
In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.
The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange.