It is an exciting time.  Yoga Works is moving to Grace Yoga Wellness, 4520 N. Garfield Ave.,  Loveland, CO.
Svaroopa yoga class will be held on Monday mornings at 9:30.


We often ignore another important part to staying healthy — boosting your own immune system!
While educating ourselves about the situation, it’s important to manage any stress or anxiety that may come up, as stress is shown to lower your immunity to illness. The good news is there are many things we can do to lower stress and give the immune system a boost. 
Below are eight easy ways to ensure our bodies and minds are best prepared to fight the virus if we come into contact with it.
  • Engage in meditation — Meditation increases expressions of genes that are beneficial to the immune system. In addition, stress hormones can reduce the effectiveness of immune cells, so by reversing the stress response with meditation, we support our immune function.
  • Breathe — Doing some slow, belly breathing can calm the mind, which in turn strengthens the immune system. When we slow down the breath, we calm the stress response that can weaken the immune system. Try counting to 4 or 5 with each inhalation and exhalation to slow down your breathing. You’ll notice the effects right away!
  • Get good sleep — Sleep has been known to boost T-cells which help us fight disease, especially viral diseases. Get at least 7-8 hours of natural, restful sleep.
  • Eat well — Eating a healthy, organic, plant-based diet gives us the phytonutrients we need for healthy immune function.  Plants are full of the healthy vitamins and micronutrients that keep our cells healthy, like Vitamin C, Vitamin A, zinc and other trace elements needed to support immune cells.
 
  • Get regular exercise — Simple daily movement, such as walking, can keep your stress levels down, which in turn supports the immune system; however, if you are not feeling well, give your body the rest it needs by reducing activity. Try doing some gentle yoga at home to keep yourself moving and reduce stress.
  • Use social media mindfully — It’s important to stay informed, however checking your phone every two minutes to see if there is another development in the story will only serve to put you on edge. Instead, when you get an urge to grab your device, try acknowledging the impulse and taking a deep inhale and exhale and repeating this simple mantra to restore peace and harmony: Shanti (shan tee).
  • Connect with loved ones — As schools shut down and people stop shaking hands, it’s important to maintain connections with those that we trust and love. Interpersonal connection has been shown to reduce stress and increase happiness. As much as possible check-in with those you love even if it’s just a video chat, call or text.

Yoga class can be a sanctuary. Yoga class can be a place where community gathers. Yoga class can be a place where students can go to remember basic human decency, kindness, and most of all LOVE. And yet, a lot of yoga classes out there are purely physical.  They provide a great workout and stretch, but few students walk away with the tools they need to live a meaningful life. More than ever in this crazy world, our students are looking to their yoga teachers to help them remember that: They are loved. The world needs them. No matter how tough it is out there, life is still good. At Yoga Works, we teach from the heart and lead more meaningful classes that touch people's souls, not just physically move and sweat them through a sequence.


"Life is filled with God's light, but only through optimism will you experience that light." ––Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi)

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~Anaïs Nin
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"Om Lokah Smastah Sukino       Bhavanta"
May all beings be happy. Amma.
Be Happy.  Be strong.  No matter your situation. 

 Know Deeply.  Feel Deeply. Share Deeply. 

This is my approach to teaching and living.  Many Blessings.  Mary Kay, owner and teacher of Yoga Works of Loveland.  I look forward to practicing with you.

I honor and am in awe of the dedicated students of Yoga Works.  Without you the studio would not exist. Every day I am in filled with reverence for your commitment to your practice as well as gratitude for your role in cultivating a conscious community." – Kaanti


Try This:  Inhale Love...Exhale Gratitude  Focus on the Exhale.

Yoga Works. Loveland's Yoga Studio! 


SVAROOPA YOGA.
Svaroopa yoga means "The Bliss of your own Being." The Yoga Sutra 1.3 says, "Tadaa drashtuh svaroope 'vasthanam," promising that the moment your mind becomes quiet, you will abide in the bliss of your own being.
Svaroopa® Yoga
Yoga is easy with the spinal decompression that we call Core Opening – end your back pain and dissolve neck and shoulder tensions in your first class. Freedom from headaches, fewer colds and flu, better breathing and improved digestion/elimination follow – because Core Opening lifts pressure off your internal organs and glands,  everything functions better. Stress relief and deep relaxation are intrinsic to the relaxation of your core tensions.

Banish fatigue, enjoy more energy and enjoy a resiliency that supports you when facing life's challenges. While you become progressively more calm, peaceful and (dare we say?) happy, you know it is coming from a deep inner knowing. Svaroopa® is a Sanskrit word that means you know yourself at the deepest level of your being. You can trust yourself as you move into life in a whole new way.  Yes, you can do yoga.  Wherever you are is the entry point.  Svaroopa serves the avid yogi and the beginner.  So why wait? Come experience the bliss of your own being.  

-Svaroopa® Yoga
MAY THE LONG TIME SUN SHINE UPON YOU,
ALL LOVE SURROUND YOU,
AND THE PURE LIGHT WITHIN YOU,
GUIDE YOU ON YOUR WAY