Power up your entire body with power yoga

Power Yoga is very popular yoga style which was originated in United States by 1990s. Power Yoga is a general term used in Western Countries that originates a vigorous and fitness-based approach to power up your entire body. This type of yoga matches with Indian “Ashtanga Yoga” to much extent. Unlike Ashtanga, the power yoga doesn’t follows the yoga poses, so the power yoga classes can be vary widely. Many people consider this type of yoga as “gym yoga”. Since it gives emphasis on strength and flexibility, many gyms of America brought up this practice and people began to consider it as regular practice.

History of Invention
Beryl Bender Birch from New York and Bryan Kest from Los Angeles are the yoga masters who invented power yoga. Not coincidently, they both have learnt this yoga from Ashtanga yoga master Mr. K. Pattabhi Jois. In terms of power yoga, both of them were associated with teaching the postures of general stretching and meditation that many Americans were adopted. Power yoga is generally based on full body workout to encourage mental stability and concentration. With these features, power yoga becomes the western version of Indian Ashtanga yoga.

Aspects of Power Yoga
Although power yoga follows the procedures of Indian Ashtanga yoga, it is also generally inspired with yoga practices like “hot yoga” and “Iyengar yoga”. There are some of these aspects:

1. Power yoga is inspired by hot yoga or Bikram yoga somehow. It also requires yoga practices to strengthen and heating ofthe muscles and guarantees the energetic workout. It involves basic challenges that can be suffered at the beginning by the yogis.

2. This is inspired by Iyengar yoga because this also emphasizes on doing yoga poses for power up the muscles as well as holding the poses for long time to improve the person’s endurance and flexibility of body. 

Benefits of Power Yoga
Power yoga also requires the practicing the postures in steady yet slow pace. Some poses in power yoga should be done even more than five breathes. This is the main aspect of yoga that it allows to enhance the physical endurance and focus on the same task for a longer period without getting disturbed from concentration. But, although Power Yoga requires certain aspects that need to be considered by the person to fully enjoy it, there are also some main benefits of Power Yoga that attracts more and more people to try this out:

1. This is strength, stamina and flexibility booster.
2. It improves stability to focus on one thing.
3. A great way to burst tension and anxiety.
4. It helps one to maintain proper posture.
5. It is a good body toner.
6. An efficient way to detoxify the body toxins through sweat.
7. A great extent of training for athletes.
8. This is a perfect way to improve performance in sporting activities including golf, cycling, football and swimming. 

Those are the benefits why many health clubs today also give preference to Power Yoga apart from Aerobics.

Ayurveda yoga retreat India
There are many yoga training classes and retreats in many parts of India. Delhi, Kerala and Goa are some of the best places where you can join yoga classes to learn the poses of Bikram Yoga, Power Yoga and Iyendar yoga. There are also other forms of yoga training India that are provided by yoga retreats. With having the great extent on yoga trainings in India, one can learn the same within a week or two. For more details, one can visit soulandyoga.com to know the schedules of yoga classes in Goa, India.