If your goal in coming to the yoga practice is for fitness and or weight loss, through a dedicated practice you will achieve this. The Ashtanga Vinyasa system heals the whole body, organs, joints, hormonal system, circulatory system, nervous system, energetic body and the mind.  Through the detoxification of heating the body through movement and static postures the body will cleanse, allowing for balancing to occur on may levels.  Focusing on the breath, core and inward gaze allows for healing to occur, releasing old memories and emotional scars, a gift to move forward.   The choices we begin to make increasingly continue to support our practice, as the benefits of eating nourishing light meals, getting proper rest, breathing more fully to witness life to it's fullest are only a few of the ways our lives change when we embark on this journey of yoga.   Hope to see you in class.  Namaste.