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Get started with Yoga in Launceston

In the past 30 years, yoga has developed from being a niche form of exercise and meditation to become one of the most popular ways for people to work out and feel better in both their bodies and their minds. For health and fitness lovers, yoga offers a variety of ways to train and challenge your body, all while taking care of your mind and spirit as well.

Yoga over time

Yoga was originally practised in pre-Vedic Indian traditions, with the first known texts appearing around 3000 BCE. While there are a lot of definitions, the basic idea is that yoga is a way of exercising which uses postures and breathing to connect our physical, mental and spiritual aspects.  Hatha, Ashtanga, Buddhist and many other forms of yoga developed over centuries and many have been revived in modern times as a form of mediation and wellness. In the late 19th century, yoga sessions started to become popular in the West and from the 1960s onwards yoga as a form of exercise and wellness began to spread a great distance all over the world. There are now countless studios, events, online classes and so much more that we can easily find with the click of a button.

Studio classes vs private teachers

For most people in Launceston and around Australia, classes in a studio are the go-to for yoga practice, but taking private lessons with an amazing tutor can open up an unlimited world of learning and opportunity that group classes just can't offer. The tutors on Superprof have a true passion for yoga and love taking the time to run sessions that will help their students reach their objectives and live better. You can request that your tutor organise a full course based on exactly your needs and interests. For example, for women who have recently had kids, yoga training with a private teacher can be an excellent way to stretch and move your body, without hurting or straining yourself. Or suitable classes for beginners can concentrate on building up fitness and endurance over a period of weeks while mastering the basics of vinyasa or Hatha.

In any case, your private tutor is there to focus only on you and what you request, making your training experience more efficient and hopefully more fun, especially as you pass through the various levels. Online and studio classes often offer sessions in the same style, which can get boring over time, but another great feature of private classes is that you can focus on a vinyasa flow one day, Bikram another day and finish out the week with a little Hatha. There are so many styles you can learn with your private teacher, like yin for example. Yin is a suitable type of training for beginners because most of the postures are seated and held for different periods of time. This helps you find your breath and centre and focus on the meditation aspect of the class.  Power Yoga, a form of Vinyasa, is a style on the other end of the spectrum. Great for advanced students who want to challenge themselves, Power Yoga involves less focus on meditation and more on strength and endurance. The postures are more difficult, and similar to pilates, require a lot of core strength to get right.

Whatever you want to learn, during your sessions, your private teacher can focus on you, ensuring that you're doing all of the postures correctly and in a safe way, giving you the confidence and security to push yourself and improve class by class.

Benefits of practising yoga every day

Practising yoga consistently can offer unlimited benefits over time, in a variety of areas in your life, physical, mental and spiritual. The physical health benefits are already a great reason for beginners to get started. Similar to pilates, yoga engages your whole body as you flow from posture to posture. Each session will help you to build more strength and endurance, and soon you will find that you feel stronger. Training will also help you stretch out your muscles, becoming more flexible over time. This is a great way to warm up and cool down as well before other forms of exercise, and can really help avoid serious injuries.

You may also find that yoga training helps improve your body image and self-esteem. Not only is your body getting stronger and more toned physically, but through meditation, you may find that you feel more grateful for your body. The University of Minnesota found in a study that after group yoga classes, participants stopped criticising their bodies as much.

Then there are benefits for your mental health. Whether online distance classes or in-person in a studio, yoga can help to relax your mind, and help you learn to sit with your thoughts. By connecting your movement from pose to pose to your breath, you will sink into a form of meditation. Although it may be difficult at first for beginners, with each practice you will find yourself connecting more and more easily to your mind and emotional being. Other benefits include relieving anxiety and even insomnia.

Yoga in Launceston

While Launceston maybe second to Hobart as the biggest city in Tasmania, it's still a bustling city with an ever-growing yoga community just waiting for you to discover.  North, south, east and west, there are great studios and exciting events happening all over the city that you can get involved in, from free online laughter yoga events to various retreats and tours. Even if you just want to take your classes outside, you're spoiled from choice. All over the Cornwall district of Tasmania, you can find lovely parks like Heritage Forest or Elizabeth Gardens where you can bring a mat and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

So if you're in Launceston and ready to get started on your yoga journey, have a look at the online profiles of our wonderful Superprof teachers and contact a tutor to book a class today!