Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutations

SAVY Yoga has been serving the city of London and surrounding areas since 2011 under the most qualified and experienced faculty in LONDON and CANADA, and one of the most qualified and experienced faculty in the WORLD! To serve the people of London in a better way, instead of serving some run-of-the-mill pseudo-yoga routines, we offer some very useful and healing, authentic Yoga/ Meditation/ Pranayama routines, ranging from gentle to very challenging Yoga, for the  beginner to the advanced student alike.

Here, we bring to you an introduction to Yoga classes being taught at our SAVY Yoga Studio.

Through demonstration, discussion and experiential movement, you will gain key understanding of proper postures and how to keep your body safe. As common sense dictates, one can function properly only if one is disease-free and is in a healthy state of body, mind and spirit. So, for us, your health and disease-free state comes first of all. Yamas, Niyamas, Asanas, Pranayama, Swara, Mudras, Marmas, Kriyas, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana – our Yoga is much more than mere ekanga Yoga comprising gymnastics and sauna! 

Yoga Classes at SAVY bring to you the taste, values and expertise of the true traditional Ashtanga and Vinyasa Yoga from India. Inspired adherence to the eight pillars or steps of yoga bestow one with a calm mind and fit body and lead one towards attaining an emancipated life. In more physical or materialistic  terms, Yoga is more than capable of keeping one physically and mentally fit and disease-free. It has become the new hot and favoured way to sweat it out for better health. SAVY Yoga is a humble step in that direction.

Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutations

The Sun is the source of all energy and the supporter of all life-forms. Culturally, in India, it has always been more than just a star, and Indian culture respects and worships this powerful source of energy and the source of all life on earth as a deity. Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutations, an integral part of Surya Yoga, is one way Hindus have always paid respect to the “Sun god” and in turn gain enormous health benefits. Surya Namaskar, loosely translated into English as Sun Salutation, is an age-old sequence of twelve asanas. The obvious characteristic of Surya Namaskar is the fact that it exercises the entire body. The Sun Salutation is a graceful, thermogenic sequence of twelve postures performed as one continuous exercise. Each position is reverse of the one before, stretching the body in a different way and alternatively expanding and contracting the chest to regulate breathing.

Sun Salutations or Surya Namaskar is yoga postures, breathing, mindfulness, meditation, bandhas, gaze, alignment, mantras etc – all rolled into one!

In India, Surya Namaskar has always been considered THE MOST COMPLETE EXERCISE ROUTINE!

Benefits of Surya Namaskar

Sun Salutations or  Surya Namaskar has many benefits and if done regularly can not only help you lose flab but can also help you prevent, and even combat, diseases. Here are a few benefits of this sequence:

• Surya Namaskar, or Sun Salutations, ideally done facing the early morning rising sun out in the open, helps our body to soak in the benefits of the morning rays of the sun. Surya tratak practiced at this time is most beneficial.
• This is the best and most complete series of asanas to improve lymphatic drainage and circulation . Hence, it improves body immunity.
• Regular practice of this series of asanas can also help you lose the excess belly fat.
• The postures in Surya Namaskar stretch our muscles and help make our body very flexible.
• The moves and postures of the asana help all our internal organs function better — the various poses regulate our blood flow, squeeze and release the internal organs alternately, benefit all bodily systems including the digestive system and makes it more efficient.
• It helps combat insomnia as it relaxes the body and calms the mind.
• It helps regulate menstrual cycles and makes childbirth easier.
• This is known to facilitate blood circulation and thereby help hair growth and prevent hair problems.
• It reduces anxiety and restlessness and enhances our strength and vitality.
• Surya Namaskar benefits everyone – not just adults, but kids as well.
• From a yoga energetic point of view, it acts on Solar Plexus and regular practice of Surya Namaskar enhances it, hence increasing awareness and ‘gut feeling’ or intuition.
• It acts on and balances all chakras and helps you achieve complete health.
• The back and forth, up and down movements in Sun Salutations are fun and offer the opportunity to move playfully in the practice.
• They warm up the body for the practice of more asanas.
• Surya Namaskar improves cardiovascular function. Some studies have revealed that sun salutations provided the best overall benefit for the heart, specifically the left ventricle. For excellence of health, the left ventricle must relax very rapidly after each contraction and then again contract rapidly and forcibly, to push blood into aorta. Sun Salutations improve this function.
• They bring the mind to a calm, serene yogic state.
• They help to overcome motivation issues.
• They keep your skills sharp.
• Sun Salutation is a very complete exercise.  If you only have fifteen or twenty minutes to practice, doing Sun Salutations alone properly cover almost all the benefits of yoga postures.

The traditional format of Sun Salutations being taught at SAVY Studios helps you derive maximum benefits from this very useful yogic exercise. One feels so alive after just a few rounds of this!

You are most welcome to  learn this routine and stay healthy.

These special classes, with one hour of just Surya Namaskar, are offered regularly every month.

Here are required details of the classes:

• Time: On Tuesday – 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM (Please confirm time with the Studio)
• Where: Online, Live Stream 
• Formats: As a part of Basic Yoga package or 4 Class package – 1 Class every week for One Month . We recommend combining this class with at least one more suitable Yoga class per week.
• Batches: One batch per month.
• Commitment: A commitment to complete the program without missing any class (except in an emergency). Missed classes will not be compensated in any way.
• Cost: It’s available under Basic Yoga program or as a 4-Class package. Please check the pricing here. 

Please check the exact schedule and time below

Established benefits of Yoga: