Introducing Naam Yoga

If you are new to Naam Yoga LA, you are probably wondering, “What is Naam Yoga? What does it mean?” The western world often associates the word ‘yoga’ with a physical workout focused on flexibility followed by meditation such as a special breath or a sacred mantra. Naam Yoga is quite the inverse. Each class holds the power of the word (‘Naam’ means ‘word’) as the supreme healing force to which all other therapeutic components follow suit.

Naam Yoga is a unique merging and refining of powerful Eastern and Western esoteric traditions made accessible to everyone. It is a complete self-healing practice that removes stress and restores the flow of vital energy throughout the entire body and the brain. This art and science works with movement, sound current (mantra), breathing exercises, hand symbols (mudras), and the wisdom of the laws of nature, resulting in deep relaxation and cellular invigoration. Naam Yoga awakens consciousness, maintains a youthful glow, and opens the heart.

Naam Yoga is one of the most in-depth, precise and comprehensive systems of yoga in the world. Through its innovative use of movement, breath, and sound therapy, one achieves optimal health and well-being.

When attending Naam Yoga classes for the first time, expect to leave with a radiant glow and vital energy that can only come as a result of a ‘complete’ workout—one that infuses physical movement, the power of the breath and the sacred science of mudras with Divine Healing Sound. When our thoughts and feelings are transformed through the use of special mantras, the physical body can’t help but harmonize, balance and radiate.

The Benefits of Practicing Naam Yoga
Naam Yoga is a powerful self-healing technology yielding a wide range of benefits. Recognized by Yoga Alliance it is a complete science that produces measurable physical, emotional and mental healing. It is physically and spiritually therapeutic and rehabilitative, capable of magnifying one's strengths while increasing one's ability to overcome weakness. Here is a small list of Naam Yoga’s therapeutic benefits:

• Raises energy levels
• Balances the glandular, digestive and nervous systems
• Strengthens the immune system
• Relieves chronic pain
• Achieves emotional balance
• Aids in stress management
• Reduces anxiety and depression
• Increases blood flow to the brain
• Improves overall health and well-being
• Improves the flow of life-force in the body’s subtle meridians
• Improves overall health and well-being
• Improves the flow of life-force in the body’s subtle meridians
• Addresses Phobias and Neurosis

Benefits of Naam Yoga on the Brain
• Improves memory
• Stimulates neurogenesis
• Balances the hemispheres of the brain
• Imparts projective intelligence
• Increases volume in regions of the brain associated with age-related decline
• Stimulates the Pineal and Pituitary glands which regulate the entire glandular system and grant intuition

Origins of Naam Yoga
For centuries, mystics and yogis from many different spiritual traditions and cultures spanning from east to west have implored the universe to reveal the secrets of health, prosperity, knowledge and spiritual evolution that can lift man and restore him to his rightful divine origin. Naam Yoga is an unprecedented fusion of this ancient and previously secret body of knowledge and highlights the power of the word in moving mankind from the ‘head’ to the ‘heart’. It is the ‘crème de la crème’ of humanity’s finest healing arts.