Yoga For COVID-19

This Yoga For COVID-19 course has been designed to provide you with a balanced daily practice that you can work through over the course of a week to help keep you mentally and physically well. We are all dealing with a huge amount of stress and uncertainty as we navigate the coronavirus global pandemic. We have had to rapidly adjust to massive lifestyle changes, social isolation and loss of income. Some have had to deal with personal illness and loss of loved ones. Lockdown measures are contributing to an even greater tendency towards a sedentary lifestyle. Our next global health challenge could be a mental illness pandemic if we don’t take active steps look after ourselves.

With these issues in mind, the classes in this course cycle through a combination of active, strengthening and energising classes to stimulate your cardiovascular system, lift your mood and help you to maintain and build muscle strength and tone. In addition, classes with restorative sequences that have a more therapeutic focus are included. Designed to reduce stress and anxiety, these sequences can lead to a reduction in stress hormone secretion, which in turn supports your immune system. There is also an emphasis on passive chest opening to help you optimise aeration of your lungs. Having a balanced yoga practice that covers these areas is important for supporting health and resilience against infections more broadly. The better our overall health, the more likely we are to be able to effectively cope with a coronavirus infection.