Benefits of meditation and relaxation

You will experience some of the benefits of the practices immediately as attending a class is likely to leave you calmer and more relaxed. Weekly attendance may improve your energy and your ability to cope with stress. Advice and suggestions will be given for regular home practice and approach to lifestyle outside of meditation, which will make the benefits more evident. 
 
More about how meditation and relaxation can help you

Meditation and relaxation practices have many significant health benefits which have been confirmed by scientific studies. They can help improve physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. The main benefits identified by science are linked to the alleviation of stress and combating specific ailments.

Some of the documented benefits:

• Reduced High Blood Pressure and reduced need to use high blood pressure medication
• Improved circulation
• Reduced thickening of coronary arteries (atherosclerosis)
• Reduced constriction of blood vessels
• Reduced myocardial ischemia (i.e. insufficient blood supply to the myocardium, the heart muscle tissue)
• Slowing of aging processes
• Increased creativity
• Improved memory and cognition (mental processing)
• Decreased anxiety
• Reduced alcohol/drug dependency
• Increased productivity
• Reduced stress by inducing the relaxation response
• A slowing of the metabolic rate during meditation means a deeper level of rest, said to help with insomnia
• Reduction of the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the blood
• Improved flexibility in the body

Please note you need to practice regularly to experience the benefits to a more significant degree.