Meditation is an exercise that can give you a sense of calm, peace and balance that can benefit both your emotional well-being and your overall health. You can also use it to relax and cope with stress by refocusing your attention on something calming. Meditation can help you learn to stay centered and keep inner peace.

During meditation, you focus your attention and eliminate the stream of jumbled thoughts that may be crowding your mind and causing stress. This process may result in enhanced physical and emotional well-being.

These benefits don't end when your meditation session ends. Meditation can help carry you more calmly through your day. Meditation may also help you manage symptoms of certain medical conditions.

When you meditate, you may clear away the information overload that builds up every day and contributes to your stress.

Some of the emotional and physical benefits of meditation can include:

Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations

Building skills to manage your stress

Increasing self-awareness

Focusing on the present

Reducing negative emotions

Increasing imagination and creativity

Increasing patience and tolerance

Lowering resting heart rate

Lowering resting blood pressure

Improving sleep quality

Most people take short, shallow breaths into their chest. It can make you feel anxious, tired, physically and emotionally drained. It can also lead to panic/anxiety attacks and hyperventilating.

Deep breathing helps you to feel more calm. It allows your body to fully exchange incoming oxygen with outgoing carbon dioxide. This has been shown to help…

Decrease stress

Reduce pain

Decrease blood pressure

Improve the quality of life for people with Asthma and COPD

Help manage symptoms of depression and anxiety

Reduce tension to help with headache and neck pain

Improves digestion

Reduce the number and serverity of hot flashes

Improve blood flow

Relaxes your mind and body

Improve energy levels

Helps to improve cognition

Yoga's incorporation of meditation and breathing can help improve a person's mental well-being. Regular yoga practice creates mental clarity and calmness, increases body awareness, relieves chronic stress patterns, relaxes the mind, centers attention, and sharpens concentration.


Yoga therapy uses yoga practices but with the aim of progressing towards improved physical health and overall wellbeing.

Yoga therapy is designed to address specific issues a person may have. It’s an adaptation of a yoga practice to the needs of a person based on persistent health issues that aren’t addressed in a group class.

Physical health benefits: In addition to helping with mental health conditions, yoga therapy can also improve physical fitness and increase strength, balance, and flexibility. It can also help with physical health conditions such as pain, blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and arthritis.