Yoga offers health benefits

WINTER PARK, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - At Full Circle Yoga in Winter Park, the only voice you hear is owner and instructor Christine Northocote. Everyone else just breathes.

’Relax your face close your eyes,’ she tells her clients.

The room is packed with the young and the old, the flexible, and those who are working to be more limber.

’We're just taking care of people creating an environment they get to step outside of the world ad they step into themselves.’

In a "hurry up world," people stop thinking and let the natural rhythm of their breathing take over.

’Our bodies are meant to move, bend, twist, push pull,’ says Northocote, ’and if you don't lose it you use it.’

Yoga provides obvious physical benefits, but it seems the mental benefits are what keep people coming back for more and hooking their friends on the habit too.

Yoga classes nationwide have jumped in attendance by 20 percent in the last two years.

Yoga classes, mats, clothing, and DVDs are big business -- making once small companies- big companies raking in hundreds of millions each year.

These classes cost $8-$14 each; a small price to pay for the sanity participants say you gain.

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