The Benefits of Practising Yoga Outdoors

Yoga overall is a balancing practice. It’s a connection between mind, body, and spirit, while simultaneously bringing all of these components into harmony with the use of balance and integrity of oneself, allowing the unfolding through courageous flow.

So, what are the benefits of yoga outside?

First of all, the connection between your mind, body, and spirit. All three of these components are being further enhanced by your senses being engaged. Be it with the sun beaming down on you, a cold breeze flowing over your skin, the birds tweeting away, seeing the grass glisten or the simplest most effective pleasure I find which is being barefoot on the ground.

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Being outdoors, brings a burst of vitality, one of the main reasons is the fresh air. While practising yoga, breathwork is a key factor in gaining balance and harmony throughout your body. Gaining control over your breathing is a factor that enhances your yoga experience as a whole.

Further thinking into breathwork, the mind, body, and spirit connecting as one, we as humans, have our conscious, subconscious, and unconscious.

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Breathing as we all know is IMPERATIVE to our being on this earth right now. Due to that, breathing becomes an unconscious activity as we are so accustomed to doing it. Until, while practising yoga, we can channel our breath work, gaining conscious awareness of our breathing patterns.

This is achieved by breathing in through the nose with awareness, and out through the mouth, again with awareness and control; by filling your lungs to the deepest depths they can go to.

Another factor to why yoga outside is so beneficial is Connection.

I can’t emphasize enough how important connection is. When I say connection, I think of earth, nature, and communication. There are a number of words that describe connection for me, but most importantly, while being outside you're exploring, and connecting with new and old things alike. Allowing you to recall and indulge in appreciation of how wonderful it is to be on earth, right here, right now, expressing yourself with the natural flow of yoga, with the simplest and yet most complex beauty surrounding you; nature herself.