Benefits Sattva Yoga Can Have on Your Relationships

Bringing your life into balance through focusing on your mind, your body, and directed breath during Sattva Yoga can have tremendous benefits. Your body is nurtured through these positions and the meditation that you use to center yourself and as you are promoting the flexibility, strength, and calm of your body you are also encouraging the health, wellbeing, and calm of the mind.

When you engage in yoga you are not just bringing benefits into your own life. Rather, you are opening yourself to the wealth of benefits that can be given to your relationships as well. When you spend time concentrating on what is good for you, and dedicate yourself to fully exploring how yoga can increase your own health, you are also allowing your mind and spirit to extend these same benefits to your relationships.

There are many ways that the consistent practice of yoga can benefit your relationship. It is important to remember that consistency is the key to enjoying the myriad of benefits of Sattva Yoga. Dedicating regular and frequent time to your yoga practice promotes focus, wellbeing, agility, strength, and a consistent sense of inner peace.

A Calm Mind Promotes a Calm Heart

When you are practicing yoga you will quickly learn that the deep meditative breathing techniques and focus physical movement is incredible for releasing stress and calming anxiety. As you continue along your path of learning more about Sattva Yoga and make it a part of your everyday life you will feel these peaceful benefits throughout your day, not just when you are actually engaged in the practice.

With this greater sense of peace and calm comes greater ability to handle tension that may arise in a relationship. This is a wonderful reason to invite your partner to practice yoga with you. Bonding in this way will encourage both of you to feel stronger and more peaceful in the context of your relationship.

Yoga for Improved Life With Your Partner

The opportunity to practice Sattva Yoga together as a couple is a way to bond in a way unlike any other. Yoga is a noncompetitive activity that allows the two of you to communicate openly, enjoy gentle touch, and become wholly and deeply focused on one another. As you are improving the health and wellbeing of your bodies together you are also enhancing the emotional and spiritual bond between you. By opening up yourself to a relaxing environment with your significant other, you will enjoy continued benefits on onto other areas of your relationship.

When it is all said and done, yoga is a truly wonderful way to add peace, calm, and meaning to your relationships – both with those intimately close to you and with those you come into brief contact with throughout your day. Emotions play a tremendous role in every interaction whether large or small; Sattva Yoga helps bring those emotions into balance and equips you to approach life in a more centered, peaceful, and fulfilling way.

Sattva Yoga and Stress Relief: Finding Peace Amid Chaos

No matter what form of Yoga you practice, the end goal is almost always to relax, to find inner and outer balance, and to create an inner sense of peace and connection to the mind and emotions.

Sattva Yoga is focused specifically on accessing all three major human elements – the body, the breath, and the mind – and to work toward a softening of the body’s outer response to the external reality as it is brought into alignment with each person’s inner reality.

To put it another way, the body responds to external stimuli in various ways; these emotions and responses in turn trigger a physical response (perhaps the body becomes tense during a confrontation, for example) that also turns around and impacts the mind and emotions. It is the ongoing cycle of external response converted to internal response that is then converted back into a physical response that Sattva Yoga strives to bring into balance, harmony, and consistency.

Many people do not realize the physical and emotional impact that stress can have – especially when stress is a part of life on an ongoing, consistent basis.

Chronic stress is known to cause extremely problematic physical conditions,including back pain, migraines, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, and more. It can also cause emotional issues such as anxiety attacks to worm their way into what should be a peace and balance-filled lifestyle.

Additionally, stress has been proven to impact the part of the brain where memories are stored, as well as to impair the developmental process of children and young adults. Since the brain and the body are meant to work in harmony together, when one is struggling everything else struggles right along with it.

Sattva Yoga is one of the best ways to combat the negative effects of stress and anxiety. It is gentle, does not require the use of medications or doctor consultation, and it is extremely easy and fun to learn. As Rameen, our edmonton yoga studio founder, has said before,

“To be balanced is to be free. Balance exists in all things.”

Since many things in life are non-negotiable (most people must work and interact with others and experience intense situations on a consistent basis) the one thing that can help navigate those stressful situations is by retraining your body and your mind to deal with those external stimuli so that the natural response becomes one of peace and not tension.

If the stress of life has you feeling tense, unsettles, or even physically ill, we encourage you to find peace amid the chaos by experiencing the benefits of Sattva Yoga. Find a Sattva Yoga location near you – we are currently located in Yoga studios in Edmonton, Calgary (Yoga Santosha), and Regina areas (Yoga Mala) – and experience the wonder of balance and peace in your own life.

Recently The Yoga Loft teamed up with lululemon Whyte Ave and an amazing local Edmonton freelance photographer Nicole to snap some pics in our new space. A few of us gathered in our soon to be new home and started to have fun breaking in the space with a little yoga…