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“The primary purpose of yoga should be to integrate the different planes of one’s personality and at the same time to evolve the consciousness to gain greater knowledge of ones self.” Swami Satyananda

Yoga is the experience of unity, harmony and oneness.
It is an experience involving mind, body, emotions and spirit. Yoga provides a system to develop skills to help us to live more balanced and fulfilling lives in an ever changing world and helps people discover their own deeper, more intrinsic identity.

Yoga is an ancient, enduring and ever evolving science that enables someone to improve and change all aspect of their life. During archaeological excavations in the Indus Valley in what is now Pakistan, statues were discovered showing Shiva and Parvati sitting in various yogic postures. This is evidence that yogic techniques have been practiced for more than five thousand years.

Traditionally yoga techniques were passed on from guru to disciple by work of mouth, but in the latter part of the last century yoga became more widely known and accessible for everyone rather than just those who had renounced everyday life.

There are many paths of yoga which all interchange and so it is possible to find a style of yoga to suite everyone regardless of physical ability, age, gender, experience or emotional and spiritual development. Tulsi practices and teaches Stayananda Yoga which incorporates a holistic and gentle approach, including many different aspects of traditional practices.

Why You Would Choose Yoga – ‘Yoga is not just useful, it can be inspiring’.

Modern life is chaotic, fast and insecure - often leading to physical and mental ill health. Yoga can provide a tool-box of techniques that can help you to cope with life on all levels; physical, mental and emotional. “Yoga is not about bending the body into ridiculous positions - It is about stretching and exercising the physical body so that it remains balanced and healthy.”

For many of us the way we live gives us materialistic and short-term happiness but longer term contentment and a sense of wellbeing are often lacking. We are constantly striving for something that we cannot determine.

Not only are employment opportunities decreasing, finances becoming more of a worry and long term contentment and happiness seeming further away than ever, but our physical health is also suffering – obesity, diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, depression, insomnia are all on the increase. Life can be more manageable and our general sense of wellbeing can be improved.

In a recent Australian survey one in five respondents reported practicing yoga to assist with a specific health concern, most commonly, stress, anxiety and depression, sleep and anxiety disorders or back, neck and knee problems (e.g. chronic lower back pain, disc injuries and arthritis). Women’s health, respiratory problems and cardiovascular problems were also reported as being helped by yoga. In fact 96% of people reported that yoga improved their problem.
The survey found that the reasons most commonly given for starting yoga were ‘health/fitness’ and ‘flexibility/muscle tone’ (76%) and that only 18% initially saw yoga as a spiritual practice. However the survey went on to find that this more than doubled to 41% once practicing, showing that people come to yoga for the physical and stay for the spiritual.

How Yoga Can Help
Yoga has the answers. Yoga is an ancient, scientific, holistic approach to life that maximises all levels of our being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The tools that yoga gives us can be learned quickly and applied anywhere and at any time. Yoga provides a framework that is accessible to everyone, whether you want to improve sleep patterns, reduce anxiety, help with breathing or other specific health problems, or just ‘feel better’ about yourself.