If you really need another reason to begin, or get back to, yoga - aside from respite and relaxation in unsettling times, better sleep, and improved health parameters (cardiovascular, blood pressure), here’s another one that may grab your attention: Creating and maintaining healthy lungs may put you at advantage in fighting respiratory infections, by strengthening your body’s respiratory capacity. (Drs Robert Eitches and Ryan Steele, allergists and immunologists).

If you learn and practice yogic breathing, bringing control to the breath, you will receive all the aforementioned benefits. In addition to the breath, many yoga postures tone the muscles that support our lung capacity, including the intercostal muscles between our ribs.

Finally, adding movement to yogic breath, as we do in our classes, will contribute to your strength, stamina, flexibility, balance, and vitality.