Most Yoga or " Hatha-Yoga " classes lead the students through a series of physical and respiratory exercises that allow the practitioners to develop physical endurance, flexibility and balance.

Rigorous physical exercises lead to the development of an inner awareness or an inner "feel" of the body and of its inner workings. Also, as human beings are constituted of an intricate interaction of both the body and the mind, the regular practice of physical Yoga exercises works its way through to the psychological or mental level, allowing the student to progressively gain greater stability, openness and freedom of the mind.

The Yoga class brings you through a series of physical postures often referred to by the Sanskrit term "Asanas". These exercises are carried out standing up, sitting down, laying down on your back (supine) or face down (prone). They work, alternatively or simultaneously, on muscle endurance, flexibility and balance.

Whichever they are, the physical exercises always include an awareness of the respiratory cycle and of the inner "feel" or "state" of the body. Generally, the Yoga class begins and ends with a more or less short relaxation, which allows the practitioner to develop his receptiveness at the beginning of the lesson, or to integrate the effects of the exercises at the end of the lesson.