What is Yoga?

Yoga means union or yoking together the mind and body with the spirit. Here at Franklin Yoga we have brought together a number of styles of yoga and holistic movement to appeal to your varying needs.  Yoga is not a religion it is a way of living compassionately, with strength and courage.  It is a way to connect more deeply with your own truth, faith and the world around you.  We welcome all religious beliefs and ways of life.

Yoga …

• Offers a path to a calmer mind, healthier body, and a more open heart

• Combines movement and breath to purify, heal and awaken the body and spirit

• Encourages optimal physical and spiritual health.

• Is a process of transformation

• Is a means of discovering one’s true self

• Teaches and assists us to experience life’s many stages more mindfully and positively.

What is Meditation?

Meditation ...

• Promotes a sense of well-being, inner peace, stability, and calm.

• Develops the intuition.

• Releases reactions and unconscious habits, subconscious fears and blocks, and builds the spontaneous and intuitive link to awareness itself.

• Encourages mastery over transforming emotion to devotion.

• Promotes the ability to focus energy, enhancing effectiveness and efficiency.

• Promotes clarity of mind, mental awareness, and the ability to be present.

• Resolves core issues of stress-producing patterns.

• Develops the frontal lobe of the forehead, which controls your personality and improves focus and concentration.

• Develops the Neutral (Meditative) Mind.

• Takes us from a finite to an Infinite perception of reality, by connecting us to the clarity of the soul.