Both Yoga and Pilates support strength, mobility, and overall wellbeing, but they approach the body and mind in slightly different ways. Yoga mobilizes, aligns, stabilizes, strengthens, and releases the body while keeping the breath at the center of the practice. Through mindful movement and breathing, yoga helps regulate the nervous system and cultivate stability in…
Here is a short yoga practice that can help with recovery from Long COVID or Post COVID-19 Condition. Long COVID varies in length and severity and lasts from 3 to 9 months or more. The most common symptoms according to the World Health Organization (WHO) are shortness of breath, cognitive disfunction or ‘brain fog’ and…
Bring back some lightness into both body and mind with your yoga practice, which is far more than a fitness workout. Read more about it here in an article by lead yoga teacher at Hot Yoga Eindhoven, Natasha Gunn: The Mind in Your Muscle
Why elite athletes and sports enthusiasts increasingly view yoga as an essential part of their training regime. Footballer Albert Gudmundsson started yoga to improve his flexibility. However, he found that it had other positive effects. “I discovered that it also helped me get fitter and stronger and prevented injuries,” says Gudmundsson. Yoga is becoming increasingly…
Catrinel T., one of Hot Yoga Eindhoven’s most regular Livestreaming online yoga practioners speaks about her experience of Online yoga. Catrinel, who lives in Belgium, can only do online yoga at her favourite studio as the newly opened HYE Yoga in the Park classes are in the Netherlands and borders are still closed. Read the…
How do I feel right now? That is the question. Ask yourself this, before yoga, during yoga, after yoga, at any time of the day. Sit, breathe and tune in. Thank yourselves for your courage to walk in and take your first yoga class; to keep it up once you have started. Practice Self-careTake care…
‘WHAT DOES MINDFULNESS MEAN TO YOU?’ Over fifty people practicing yoga at Hot Yoga Eindhoven answered the above question as part of a short survey. The results are revealing and remind us particularly of one important thing, which most of the people answering the question totally missed, but could make us all a lot happier….
1. Breathing. Conscious smooth and even breathing calms the mind, especially with focus on exhale. Managing our breath helps us manage how we respond to external and internal stimuli. Learning how to breathe correctly in yoga class supports and strengthens the core, as well as calming the mind. In the heat we especially cannot focus…
How ancient yoga practices and yoga practice today combine to help top sports people in their sports. Several people practicing yoga at Hot Yoga Eindhoven, both professional sports people and sports enthusiasts, share their experience of how yoga helps them in their sport, from swimming, through rowing to football. This article was written by Natasha…
Making your yoga practice sustainable means not only respecting your body and keeping your yoga practice balanced, but also how you live your daily life. Here are five points to reflect on in relation to your yoga practice. Respect for life Yoga is “by its very nature inextricably associated with universal laws: respect for life,…