Yoga After Dark

Relaxation. Restoration.
Yoga After Dark is a sensory elixir of yoga and meditation accompanied by live world and ambient music offered in Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. An exceptional meditation and music experience to enhance your living journey.

Balance. Harmony.
Exchange enlightening ideas on living a sustainable and green lifestyle. Delight your palate with delicious, organic food and teas. Enjoy the aroma of exotic incense and oils by the illumination of candlelight.

Yoga After Dark… The chillout lounge meets the yoga studio.

Locations include Columbia, Baltimore and Northern Virginia. Contact us for registration and event information or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

We also offer Yoga Imaginarium for pre-school to 5th grade children.

“Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine.
 Confidence through self-control. Energy within and energy without.” –Ymber Delecto

Workplace Wellness
For every dollar spent on medical and pharmaceutical costs, there is $2.30 of health-related productivity losses due to absenteeism and presenteeism. For some conditions, such as anxiety, employers lose as much as $20 in productivity for every dollar they spend on medical care and pharmaceuticals.

Improved Employee Health
Health promotion initiatives can successfully impact such behaviors as smoking, high-risk alcohol use, exercise, nutritional habits, and stress. Primary prevention of illness and disease is much less costly than treatment. Education and awareness help change behaviors.

The Health Benefits of Yoga
Yoga has been practiced for more than 5,000 years, and currently, close to 11 million Americans are enjoying its health benefits. Yoga can hardly be called a trend.

Yoga has long been associated with stress reduction and increased flexibility, but not everyone realizes that yoga can also help them lose weight, lower their cholesterol, and eliminate harmful toxins. Yoga practitioners can even learn how to control their cravings for unhealthy foods.

Yoga is one of the most holistic activities there is, focusing on mind, body, and spirit. When done properly, the benefits are endless. It can ease your anxiety, improve your coordination, strength, and posture, and help you lose pounds and inches. That’s because it combines deep breathing, relaxing meditation, and limbering poses.

Most Westernized yoga classes focus on learning physical poses, which are called asanas. They also usually include some form of breathing technique and possibly a meditation technique as well. Some yoga classes are designed purely for relaxation. But there are styles of yoga that teach you how to move your body in new ways. Choosing one of these styles offers the greatest health benefits by enabling you to develop your flexibility, strength, and balance.

Music and Yoga
Yoga involves both the breathing control mechanism and the physical exercises that can be done to improve one’s vitality, flexibility and strength. Since it is a form of exercise, it is usually accompanied with sound or music. Yoga music helps you set yourself in the mood to start the exercise.

With the different kinds of music, it will surely set your condition. There are various types of Yoga music like active, serene, kirtan, and mellow. Usually, it is the sounds of nature like wind chimes, chirping birds, wilderness and many others. Yoga music brings together a mix and variety of world beat and sounds.

Music helps you move from the beginning to end. As a result, this enhances the flow of Yoga and your life. This is like a unifying pulse that is brought together to attain a certain atmosphere of indulgence, like the current of a river or the sound of nature when it is in bloom. Sound vibration helps connect the physical body to the subtle energy body.

These are invigorating sounds that delight the senses and improve the movement of the body in accordance with the sound or music. Yoga music also serves as a light or inspiration for it brings back memories or thoughts.

The general benefits of yoga music include:

  • The ability to fully relax
  • Improve balance and concentration
  • Provide a foundation to help clear the mind of thought
  • Using specific tones or waves (such as alpha or delta) to achieve a particular state of mind
  • Revive the listener and help him or her move from one state to another

There are a number of studies and applications exploring the benefits of yoga music, chants, and other relaxing sounds. Here are just a few:

  • Dr. Gunther Hildebrandt studied biological rhythms in relation to music and how it affects our healing process.
  • Dr. Mia Olson integrated the principles of yoga with music practice to help her students perform better.
  • Dr. Alfred Tomatis developed the The Listening Program, a method that uses auditory stimulation to curb undesirable impulses, reduce the symptoms of disease, and promote relaxation.

References
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine April 2009

http://journals.lww.com/joem/toc/2009/04000

WebMD.com

“The Health Benefits of Yoga”

http://www.webmd.com/balance/the-health-benefits-of-yoga

“Workplace keeping its employees well”

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/12/pm-workplace-wellness

“Yoga Takes Away Stress, Pounds, Toxins, Cholesterol and Cravings”

http://www.naturalnews.com/026646_yoga_health_toxins.html

“Benefits of Yoga Music”

http://yoga.lovetoknow.com/Benefits_of_Yoga_Music