Yoga has increasingly become more popular amongst athletes, who are looking to improve their performance when adding yoga to their daily workout routine as supplement. A “mind- body” connection can fix imbalances within the body and improve the performance of those athletes’ practicing sports such as golf, basketball, tennis, or football.

Yoga helps with the development of correct breathing skills and techniques, crucial in the success of many sports, and often ignored by many athletes. Yoga integrates the connection of mind and body through correct breathing patterns, helping build stamina and endurance in the yogi, or yogini. Focus, attention and the sharpening of one’s intuition are other great results found in yoga and its breathing techniques, which helps an athlete gain advantage over his or her rivals.

Yoga counts with many poses that create strength in the core. Its several types of contractions and movements create a diversity of resistance levels for the body, similar to the typical gym- workout. Unlike a gym session though, yoga can be practiced at home, work, and even outdoors. Here in Yandara, we do yoga at with the wind and sounds of waves of Baja California, with the gorgeous scenes of the sunset and the beach as our background.

Frequent practice of yoga increases flexibility and range of motion. Tennis and gold players often notice improvements in their swing because of the flexibility in their muscles and joints. This is particularly important for athletes as regular weight training practiced at a gym help develop some muscles, but ignores others. Yoga takes care of this imbalance by developing those much-ignored muscles through contractions used in the different poses.

Another benefit of practicing yoga is that yoga breaks with repetitive training that often causes boredom. It is also important element in recovering the body from a hard session of workouts like aerobics, since yoga can be adjusted to either high or low intensity based on the yogi or yogini’s needs.