Wake up Yoga: your perfect start in the day - John Harris

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Wake up Yoga: The perfect start to your day

Yoga relaxes and relieves stress. Is that why you like to go to yoga class after work? Imagine you could start the day already relaxed and prevent stress. This is actually possible with our Wake up Yoga classes! Here you can recharge your batteries before work and start your day in a balanced way. With the right exercises you can become alert and awake, mobilize your spine and improve your mobility. Especially in office jobs, where you sit most of the day and may even get back pain, it is ideal to start the day with exercise.

If you go by the Ayurveda theory – the traditional Indian art of healing – it is best to get up before 6:00 a.m. anyway, as you can start the day fresher at this time than if you got up later.

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This is what the morning yoga session brings you

Your metabolism is stimulated
The blood circulation is promoted
Your mind becomes really awake and alert
Your circulation gets going
Your limbs are mobilized again after the sleep phase
You don't have to go into the full evening hours and have already done your yoga session in the morning. So, the evening is free for other activities.
More time for quality: the thoughts of the day do not yet burden your mind and you can switch off faster and concentrate on the exercises.
A morning workout becomes a habit more quickly because nothing can usually get in the way.

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The sun salutation

The sun salutation is the ideal exercise to get going in the morning. At the same time, it is also one of the most popular yoga exercises, known in numerous different variations. The sun salutation usually consists of 12 asanas, which are performed one after the other. This sequence invigorates the mind and body and can be performed slowly at first and then faster.

How to prepare your body

Before you leave for your yoga class, mobilize your body while getting up in bed. Breathe deeply and activate your body with slight rotations of the spine. Stretch through, come to a cross-legged position for a moment and stretch to either side. Activate your spine in a quadruped stand by doing a cat hump and then a straight back again.

Just give it a try, set your alarm clock a little earlier and start exercising in the morning. You will see, exercising in the morning will help you to be fit for the day and to cope better with everyday life. Wake up yoga classes are available at most of our clubs.

Fitting courses

Yogalates

John Harris' 60-minute Yogalates class combines the most effective and best of yoga and Pilates. Stretch, strengthen and meditate- all in one class. After a short warm-up, you start the varied course, which perfectly balances the typical Pilates power training and the well-known meditative yoga.
Different breathing techniques and the training of deep-lying, but essential muscle groups are the common thread throughout the entire training.

Yoga

There is hardly a better known and proven method to optimize one's physical, as well as one's overall mental condition than through yoga. Yoga has been proven to help not only preventively against mental illness symptoms such as sleep disorders, anxiety, or even burn-out, but also against physical limitations such as headaches, shoulder or back pain.

Wake Up Yoga

This morning yoga session is especially good for starting the day awake and fresh. It activates the body and calms the mind at the same time, which can reduce susceptibility to stress. Gentle exercises prepare you for the day ahead.
The session is ideally suited for yoga beginners or for yogis who want to strengthen their basics. The postures (Asanas) in this class are combined to create a balanced practice that strengthens and relaxes the body at the same time.
The main focus is on learning the basic postures and the correct breathing techniques-step by step. With regular yoga practice, you will feel how you become more powerful after a while and your body will noticeably gain flexibility.

Diamond Yoga

Diamond Yoga is a combination of Yin and Yang Yoga and is suitable for both beginners and advanced students. It is a mixture of relaxation and classical Hatha Yoga.
As a special highlight, a final relaxation with the heavenly sounds of a crystal singing bowl follows at the end of each unit.

Yoga & Meditation

The yoga sessions are predominantly Hatha yoga, with the objective of making the body supple, flexible and strong at the same time.
In addition, one of the focuses is on grounding and practicing an upright posture for good balance. This is not only physical, but also mental. Self-control and body awareness are increased through longer lasting exercises. This ultimately leads to great mental strength as well.
There are different types of workouts that are good for clearing the mind. Likewise, there are many workouts that get the body out and exercised. However, there are hardly more suitable courses than yoga, where in one exercise session body and mind are not only trained, but also connected at the same time. Yoga is recommended for those who want to leave their everyday stress behind, or who notice that their health is already close to the limit.

Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga is a form of yoga in which the balance between body and mind is sought primarily through physical exercises (Asanas), through breathing exercises (Pranayama) and meditation.
Hatha yoga is especially suitable for beginners and yogis who are looking for a calm balance to the stressful everyday life. The yoga practice also strengthens and stretches the muscles, making the body more flexible. In addition, Hatha Yoga improves body awareness and has a positive effect on the mind. This relaxes both body and mind.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga

Flow Yoga combines individual yoga positions (Asanas) and breathing into a harmonious and flowing sequence of movements.
At the beginning, the mind is calmed through breathing exercises to arrive at the mat. The flowing transition into mobilization and movement of the entire body serves as preparation for our flow. The finale is formed by stretching positions and the final relaxation Shavasana. Yoga blocks and yoga straps can be used to support and intensify the practice. This yoga session is suitable for all levels, as it brings body and mind into harmony.

Ashtanga Yoga

Precise sequence of body postures, connected by dynamic and powerful movement elements. Special breathing technique!
Ashtanga Yoga is a more intense workout than Hatha Yoga. There is a smooth transition from one exercise to the next. Ashtanga Yoga is the basis for the popular Power Yoga. Here, the exercises are basically always completed in the same order. Ashtanga is supposed to lead to more calmness and balance without meditation and calm exercises, but through sweaty training.

Bodybalance Summer Special

The Tai Chi warm-up is followed by simple movements, poses and stretches from yoga and Pilates to flowing music, with a relaxed meditation at the end. A benefit for body, mind and soul!
In this class, you have the possibility to bring external people (boyfriend/girlfriend, colleague, siblings, etc.). Bodybalance Summer Special is free of charge for ALL – at the Sandcastle in the open air. Therefore, also only in dry weather!

Find Your Balance

Find Your Balance is the perfect blend of strengthening, mobilization, balance exercises, stretching, flexibility and fascia training. The whole body is moved and strengthened in this quiet hour with or without additional equipment. Through mobilization, the body is optimally prepared for the exercises that flow into each other, which are first performed in a standing position and then on the mat. A soothing stretching serves as the finale.
This harmonious unit is suitable for everyone to bring the body back into balance.

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