In today’s competitive sports world, it can be difficult to find the edge needed to be the best. I have a keen interest in sport and have watched the hard work that many athletes put into their training for their sport, but still fail to achieve the ultimate performance to be number one.
I have practiced Yoga for 19 years and have a deep understanding of all the benefits Yoga can provide.Yoga is beneficial for all athletes to enhance strength, flexibility and mental focus. Yoga gives a range of motion in all the joints of the body as each class involves a workout for the whole body.
Every movement in yoga is synchronised with the breath so it builds a holistic understanding of how the body works as one unit. Whatever your sport, you will have some overworked muscles in your body. Swimmers suffer from tight shoulders, hurlers and footballers suffer from tight hamstrings which have shortened, sometimes due to over work at the gym, causing lower back pain. Cyclists and golfers can lack balance from the repetitive twisting of their body.
Some would consider Yoga and Sport to be worlds apart but I have brought the two together to add a whole new dimension to your sport training. Yoga is not the latest “fad” to hit the headlines. It is dated back to approx 5,000 years.So include yoga in your sport training and improve your balance, flexibility, power and stamina, increase your lung capacity and your mental focus resulting in improved performance, injury reduction and faster recovery.
Namaste, Paulette

The Sports Yoga Team

The big difference with Yoga and other fitness regimes is that yoga takes an holistic approach to your wellbeing. This means looking at mind and body as one complete functioning unit, using physical exercise, mental stimulation and nutrition to improve your whole self as a living entity. I am hoping to use Sportsyoga.ie to bring together people with expertise in all these areas to provide useful information for all athletes and people with a general interest in sport.
Starting with the Limerick and Clare area I have teamed with Angela, Andrea and Barry as people who can be contacted directly for knowledge in their own fields of expertise. We aim to help you to better your sport and over the next few months there will be more professionals coming on board the team. I will be continually updating this site with interesting facts on nutrition , fitness and health.
If you have any queries regarding your sport, please e-mail me on info@sportsyoga.ie
Namaste, Paulette.