You can now offer your conference delegates the opportunity to start their day with a yoga session that includes gentle stretching, deep breathing and relaxation techniques designed to sharpen reflexes and relax the mind to make it more receptive to information.

Jenny Stephenson has been teaching Yoga classes in the Northern Rivers region of NSW for over 20 years and holds regular classes for all levels.

Many North Coast Conference venues are ideally set up with a quiet room, often designed to take in the natural beauty of the area, that is just perfect for a morning yoga session.

A Brief History of Yoga

Hatha Yoga is a complete science of Life that originated in India many thousands of years ago. One of the oldest known pictures of someone practising a yoga pose is carved on a stone seal dating from about 2500 BC and was found in the Indus Valley.

In Sanskrit, the word ‘yoga’ means union; ‘ha’, means sun and ‘tha’ means moon. Therefore “hatha yoga” means a balanced union – a system for creating the balanced well being of the total person. Yoga joins body, mind and spirit into a balanced whole.