Wellness Haven Yoga

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  • Reduce Chaos In Your Life Through Yoga

    Reduce Chaos In Your Life Through Yoga

    Yoga is a form of meditation that greatly assists in bringing harmony and balance to the mind-body experience. By utilizing poses and breathing, yoga improves fitness while reducing stress. Access your inner strength with yoga and develop insight and focus while increasing your flexibility. Here in San Ramon, at The Wellness Haven our mission is to help our students bring harmony and balance back into their lives. We offer yoga for women, men and children as well as yoga for senior citizens. 

    How Breathing Reduces Stress

    A core component to yoga is breathing. Yoga teaches an individual how to breath correctly and calms the mind. By rejuvenating your mind your body relaxes and your breathing becomes even easier. Through a variety of Yoga Asanas, your body connects in harmony with your mind.

  • Lose Pounds, Tighten Muscles, Eradicate Health Issues

    Lose Pounds, Tighten Muscles, Eradicate Health Issues

    Lose Pounds, Tighten Muscles, Eradicate Health Issues For Good!

    We are getting ready for August and renewed energy to help even more people suffering from “over-weight” issues.

    With each group of people who go through our 12 Week Nutrition – Lower Your Fat, we make it even more robust than ever before simply because our goal has always been learning through education and experience.

    There are so many who have many chronic conditions like the following:

    • weight gain and obesity
    •  inflammation and joint pain
    • fluid retention
    • fatigue
    • sinus and nasal congestion
    • brain fog, mood swings, depression, anxiety
    • skin conditions like acne and eczema\
    • irritable bowel syndrome
    • food allergies and other digestive issues
    • arthritis
    • autoimmune diseases
    • hormonal disorders
    • high blood pressure
    • cholesterol problems
    • fibromyalgia

    We take you through a 12 Week Program – Jump-Start Your Life, find out about your food habits and food sensitivities, about the physical symptoms you are facing that keep you struggling and miserable, and the lifestyle you are living, and work through the process of “cleansing/elimination, and re-introduction, and introduction of healthy habits” to live a life free of food related health issues resulting in automatic elimination of food you are sensitive to, excess fat and weight loss.

    Food culprits could be any of the following:

    • sugar
    • oil and fat
    • gluten
    • dairy
    • corn
    • eggs
    • soy
    • nuts
    • citrus
    • yeast
    • nightshades  (for those highly sensitive)
      (Bell peppers, Hot peppers, Tomatoes, Wonderberries, Eggplant, Huckleberries, Goji berries, Kutjera, Naranjillas, Paprika, Pepinos, Pimentos, Morelle de Balbis, Potatoes, Tomatillos, Gooseberries)

    Other culprits:
    – lack of good sleep
    – lack of enough hydration
    – lack of exercise
    – chronic stress
    Our program is very simple and those who dive into it with determination see massive results safely! Stop the suffering and get your life back on track through our 12 Week Program – Jump-Start Your Life

    You do not need to wait.
    Call today: (925)819-6327

    So many have lost 20 pounds and more.
    So many have their sugar level in control.
    So many have dropped their cholesterol levels and blood pressure.
    So many are free of pain and bloated tummy.
    So many have got rid of the bulging tires around their belly.

    SO CAN YOU!
    Call today: (925)819-6327

     

    Reach out to us for a Free Consultation, where we will discuss your needs, and tailor the program to suit your needs for we believe that one size does not fit all!
    Phone: (925)819-6327
    email: umang@wellnesshaven.com
    Location: 110 Ryan Industrial Ct., San Ramon, CA 94583
    We serve both Local and Remote.
    Local California residents we serve are from San Ramon, Danville, Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, Concord, Hayward, Castro Valley and more.
    We serve remotely as well no matter which part of the world you are in!

    Our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/UmangsWellnessHavenYoga?pnref=lhc

     

  • I Finally Lost Weight!

    I Finally Lost Weight!

    “I Finally Did It!”

    Yes that is what many of our Nutrition Students who joined “Wellness Haven 12 Week Nutrition Program – Lower Your Fat and Lose Inches and Pounds” are saying!

    Beautiful words from one of our newer Nutrition students, who joined in “Wellness Haven 12 Week Nutrition Program – Lower Your Fat and Lose Inches and Pounds” just 3 weeks ago. See what she has to say after never able to drop weight in spite of spending thousands on many programs before!:

    “Happy Sunday Umang, Just wanted to keep you posted. After being stuck for a week I lost 2 lb. The week I didn’t loose any weight is the week I couldn’t come for my visit. I seriously think it’s your kind aura genuinely coming from the bottom of your heart was what’s needed for me to be motivate. My biggest concern is that I can’t fail you since you put so much passion and treat each of us like your own. My diet is flowing so smoothly with you after many failed attempts and thousands of dollars spent. Thank you so much for making the difference in so many peoples life. FYI I lost 8 lb and going.”

    Our program is compassionate to you and yet paves way for weight loss. Once in our program, you are in it for the rest of your life, detoxing with us every quarter.

    Reach out to us for a Free Consultation, where we will discuss your needs, and tailor the program to suit your needs for we believe that one size doe not fit all!
    Phone: (925)819-6327
    email: umang@wellnesshaven.com
    Location: 110 Ryan Industrial Ct., San Ramon, CA 94583
    We serve both Local and Remote.
    Local California residents we serve are from San Ramon, Danville, Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, Concord, Hayward, Castro Valley

    For more information: https://btb.poy.temporary.site/lower-your-fat-percentage/

    Our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/UmangsWellnessHavenYoga?pnref=lhc

  • I Want To Lose Weight!

    I Want To Lose Weight!

    Are you someone who starts each year saying, “I want to lose weight?” and yet remain unsuccessful?

    You have come to the right place. At Wellness Haven, we are very successful at transforming the very way you think about health, nutrition, what you should eat and when and how!

    Read below to see what Catherine had to say after she had already gone through 4 different weight loss programs! She joined ours because she trusted us and had faith seeing how we educate our students in everything we do at Wellness Haven, and joined our unlimited package with all our programs: Nutrition, Yoga, Breathing and Meditation.

    “Dear Umang,
    This is my journey. I am a diabetic who had high cholesterol.
    I started Umang’s Wellness Haven Yoga middle of September, 2014. I had mentioned to my husband that I wanted to join a yoga studio because I disliked going to the gym; it was so impersonal – I was one of seventy students in the yoga class. People lined up, attended and then left!
    My husband found Umang’s Wellness Haven. I came for 2 weeks. I felt I found my place. Umang makes us feel like home. It is most welcoming and nurturing haven.
    After a month of Umang’s Yoga, I wanted to try her Nutrition program and Meditation and Breathing. Even though I paid for everything because I had bought her 3 months unlimited package with all her programs (yoga, Breathing, Meditation and Nutrition), I kept putting off the nutrition. Umang had said it was alright, I will start when I was ready. I finally started January 12, 2015.
    After completing the 12 week plan, my diabetic hemoglobin A1C was 5.8, it was 11 before. My cholesterol used to be 210 and had dropped 102 points to 108. My endocrinologist was shocked and I told her how I did it with Umang’s help.
    I have lost over 25 pounds since I joined Umang’s Wellness Haven. I haven’t weighed this in over 32 years since my youngest was born! My body fat went down 5% (41 to 36). I have lost 1.4″ in my upper arms (13.5 to 12.1), 3″ in my waist (38.5 to 35.5), 2.2″ in my hips (43.4 to 41.2), 2.8″ in my thighs (22 to 19.2), .5″ in my calves (14.5 to 14). In September I was a size 14. Now I am size 8. This has surpassed all my expectations! I feel wonderful and happy. That is all I can ask for.
    I enjoy coming to yoga. I love the feeling after attending Umang’s class. It is euphoria! Thank you Umang for helping me in my journey. I appreciate your coaching and friendship.Thank you. Sincerely, Catherine Hickman.”

    June 1 is right around the corner and Wellness Haven is ready to begin yet another group in our thriving “12 Week Wellness Haven Nutrition Program – Lower Your Fat!”
    Join us and start your summer off in the best possible manner and then continue even after summer at no extra charge, for once in our program you continue to detox with us every quarter!

    Many of us at Wellness Haven are in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th weeks of the Wellness Haven Nutrition Program – Lower Your Fat and all of us are doing very well.
    “My husband told me I have lost the 2nd tire around my belly”
    “My son told me I have lost my 2nd chin!”
    “I have learned a new way of living and I do not miss my old one!”
    “I cant believe this is so practical”
    We get to hear such exciting results on a daily basis.
    We all have goals for health and we all are well on our way for we have made a pact with ourselves that when it comes to health we will let NOTHING stand in our way!
    Always ask yourself, “Why am I letting external things come in the way of my desire to be healthier, slimmer and more confident about myself?”
    You will find that these external barriers are simply excuses – a result of some form of fear – and nothing else. You deserve to be healthy. You deserve to look radiant. You deserve to lose the unnecessary extra fat that got stored due to neglect over the years. You deserve to get your body back in shape. You deserve to eradicate the health issues that have infested your body due to unaware eating habits. You deserve to treat your body like the temple it is meant to be.
    Reach out today and become a part of our ever growing community of health conscious people who are shedding the extra weight, who are smiling for they never thought it was possible.
    There is no other program out there that gives you the amount of quality time we give you one on one and in a group and whichever way suits your needs like we do. Yes we care like no one else does! Your success means even more to us than you yourself, for in your success lies our success!
    There is plenty of information on the internet. There are unlimited programs all over! Then why isn’t everyone in good shape? Because of lack of commitment, time, energy that goes into making dreams come true! We make it happen for you – whether it is health, your realization of your passions and dreams or eradication of stress!
    Call us for a free consultation: (925)819-6327
    Local Residents: Come on over to Wellness Haven Yoga in San Ramon.
    People in other parts of the world, reach to us through:
    Facebook message
    email: umang@wellnesshaven.com
    There is no better time than before this summer begins. Don’t let yet another year go by! Remember, once a part of our program, you are always in it at no extra charge
    email: umang@wellnesshaven.com
    Link to Nutrition Page: https://btb.poy.temporary.site/lower-your-fat-percentage/
    website: www.wellnesshaven.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UmangsWellnessHavenYoga?pnref=lhc
    Non-Locals: can join through Facebook video, Skype or phone call
    Locals come in:
    110 Ryan Industrial Ct., #14
    San Ramon CA 94583

    We are ready. How about you?

  • Aging Gracefully

    Aging Gracefully

    Aging Gracefully

    We are human beings. Our bodies degrade as we age, and that is a fact! We cannot deny aging.

    But what we CAN DO and what IS IN OUR HANDS:

    • AGE GRACEFULLY
    • SLOW DOWN THE AGING PROCESS

    HOW can you do this? Take care of yourself through expert help that already exists without reinventing the wheel with trial and error and wasting time!

    • Look at your life priorities. Are they really in order?
    • De-clutter your life – Remove from your life things that do not serve joy, health, peace for you and your family
    • Practice mindfulness and awareness
    • Invite health and abundance

    What can you do? Practice yoga in its full glory through the 8 Limbs of Yoga.

    Included in the 8 limbs are what keeps you healthy in every sense of the word.

    • Practice Gentle Yoga Stretching, Strengthening and Balancing exercises to take your body on a healthy path. This can be done no matter what your age, and whether you have ever exercises before or not.
    • With consistent Gentle Yoga Practice, you will progress towards more Intense Yoga Asanas to build your core, strength and flexibility even further. Intense Yoga will also becomes Aerobic in nature taking care of the need for increasing your heart rate during yoga asanas.
    • As you are healing your body through streching, strengthening, balancing, Heal it Nutritionally as well so that the fuel required for the body’s healthy growth is coming from the right sources.
    • With Physical Healing also pay attention to Emotional, Mental, Spiritual Healing as well through Meditation and Breathing Exercises or Pranayama.
    • When you are emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically healthy, you are ready to heal every other aspect of your life and including Financial Health by upgrading your Money Concepts. Yes you can Reclaim Your Happiness.

    Do not procrastinate on your HEALTH & HAPPINESS. Time is NOW, not tomorrow.

    As someone has rightly said: “SOMEDAY is not a day of the week. It is an excuse for the weak!”

    We would love to read your comments below. Please remember to share your joy with others.

     

     

  • Manage Your Stress Effectively

    Manage Your Stress Effectively

    Manage Your Stress Effectively – Reclaim Your Happiness

    You are under stress if you are not in your naturally joyful state of being.

    There are many underlying factors causing stress in ones life, but every factor is a result of the 3 critical factors mentioned below:

    • Relationship: You are in an uncomfortable relationship with a significant other or a family member or a friend or with someone related to your work. Yoiu want to be in control of the situation but you are not. This is damaging to your emotional health.
    • Money: Your finances are keeping you worried. You are living from paycheck to paycheck.
    • Health: You are not in a healthy state of being. You have physical health related issues. You are unable to manage your Eating Habits.

    If you are under duress due to any one of the above, you are STRESSED!

    So how do you keep your stress under control?

    I manage mine very effectively. Here is My Story – Utter Chaos To Joyful Health

    In general people think:
    -if they ignore or avoid the stress factor, they will be able to manage their stress – ignoring or avoiding never helps. We need to face our situation boldly and manage the stress factor with result based action steps.
    – if they exercise, they will be able to manage their stress – exercise always helps by producing happy hormones in the body but is temporary for as long as you exercise you are good; you leave it and you are back to square one! So Exercise daily!
    – if they sit and meditate, they will be able to manage their stress – it relaxes and calms the mind but is temporary for it lasts as long as you have calmed your thoughts! So Meditate daily!

    Effective stress management is a skill and an art that is learned through AWARENESS – which comes through education of the mind; through exercises like meditation, breathing techniques and visualization which are simply tools to develop awareness of your authentic Self so that there can be a change in attitude and perceptions, a change in ones belief system, that is transformation in the way you think and act!  With changed perceptions and better habits, every aspect of your life improves: relationships, finances, and health.

    Such education is even more important than the academics through school and college. It comes with learning life skills – proper learning of life changing tools, with practice, with patience, but when learned you are able to manage your stress in such a way that joy surfaces at all times no matter what is going on in your life!

    At Wellness Haven, we are passionate about teaching such tools so that you can better every aspect of your life, so that you can live the life you were meant to live, so that you can feel the joy surging like a fountain from deep within, so that external factors do not keep you bound to struggle and misery. Such powerful tools and techniques that change the very way you think are called Life Coaching Tools and that is what a Life Coach like me teaches you through getting you jump-started on the right track and then holding your hand for a complete one year or as long as you desire to be supported.

    We get you started with an initial 4 hour program, Reclaim Your Happiness, which begins your life impacting journey!

  • Not Losing Weight!

    Not Losing Weight!

    Exercising Regularly And Eating Right But Not Losing Weight!

    “I am exercising regularly, and I am eating right, but I am not losing weight!”

    Some of you will relate to the above statement.

    Here are the top few reasons that you may not be losing weight:

    1. You may not be having all the ingredients needed in your exercise routine to lose the fat weight in your body:
    • Are you getting your internal organs completely massaged though yoga asanas 5-6 days a week, so that internal body is functioning its optimal best?
    • Are you building flexibility in your body through the yoga asanas so that all your muscles and ligaments are stretched to build up an optimal circulatory system, a healthy nervous system, an optimally functioning endocrine system, as well as healthy muscular system, lymphatic system, the digestive system? No other exercise does your body good the way a wholesome yoga asana practice does by working you from head to toe.
    • Are you building strength through yoga asanas that work with your own body’s resistance as well as low weights to build up your muscles?
    • Are you building balance through yoga asanas that provide you the very best support through all sorts of props?
    • Are you able to do a combination of yoga asana practice – from the beginner practice to an intermediate level where even the static poses works up your heart rate (which is very much needed for a wholesome practice)?
    • Remember that if you are not able to work up your heart rate quite yet because you do not have the flexibility, strength or stamina to be in asanas that get your heart rate up, then you need to invest time in brisk walking and hiking as well.
    1. You may not be getting quality sleep or the number of hours your body may need:
    • Sleep deprivation affects your metabolism and appetite.
    • Sleep deprivation affects your mood, contributes to stress and impacts the cortisol/fat impacting hormone.
    1. You are leading a stressful life:
    • Constant stress leads to increase in cortisol that leads to increased appetite and increased abdominal fat as well.
    1. You are not eating right, because you are confused about:
    • What you eat
    • When you eat
    • How you eat
    • Where you eat
    • How do you shop for food
    1. You are not tracking your muscle mass and fat percentage:
    • Women lose approximately 1% muscle mass every year after 25-30 years if they do not exercise, continue to eat what they ate when they were younger and are doing nothing different to burn calories.
    • Stick to a daily exercise routine and a healthy eating routine, change your lifestyle and there is no way you will not only feel healthier from within but also start glowing.
    • You are not tracking your eating
    • You over-indulge on vacation, holidays, parties
    • You have become an emotional eater who feels rewarded through eating
    1. You are impatient:
    • You have not given yourself the time your body needs to feel and look better. After all you have spent all these years not taking care of you; how do you expect to achieve results in a few days?
    • Remember that each person is different for each person has a different metabolism, and a different body type. Kapha body types cannot be thin Barbie dolls and still be healthy! Be patient and honor your own body type. The goal should not be to be thin but to be healthy.
    1. You may have a medical condition like the issues relate with thyroid:
    • Thyroid deficiency can decrease your metabolic activity and lead to weight gain. Besides checking with your doctor for thyroid related issues, indulge in yoga asanas especially for thyroids.
    • Find out from your doctor if you have any medical condition affecting your metabolism and weight gain.
    1. You have reached a plateau:
    • If you are trying to lose pounds and you have not budged for 4 weeks in a row, you have reached a plateau.
    • A healthy and wholesome yoga practice should come with different sequences to keep the body challenged.
    • If you are not eating enough of the right food before you exercise, you will not have enough fuel to burn the fat and will act negatively in your goal to lose weight.
    1. You do not have a daily Pranayama/Breathing practice and Meditation practice to keep you calm, relaxed and at peace:
    • Just like we eat every day, we need to exercise our lungs every day.
    • We need a daily meditation practice to create a peaceful mind that is relaxed even when presented with life events that puts one out of balance temporarily.

    10. You are at optimal weight and fat percentage for your body:

    • Not everyone needs to have a slim figure.
    • Not everyone needs to lose weight.
    • What you do need is to be HEALTHY: Exercise regularly, Eat right for your body type, Sleep well, remain Stress Free. And that is it!

    At Wellness Haven you get to be healthy and wholesome:

    1. A wholesome Yoga Asana practice suitable for your body.
    2. A wholesome Nutrition Program that takes care of your body.
    3. A wholesome Breathing and meditation practice that takes care of your lungs and your mind.

    Spend 3 months with us and see how healthy and wholesome you feel. What are you waiting for?

    We would love to hear from you in the comments below. And please share your joy with others as well.

  • Health Matters

    Health Matters

    Health Matters

    How unfortunate it is that it takes a drastic life event for people to start taking a deeper look at what is keeping them in a dis-eased state of being. People are investing a lot of money in food they do not need, drinks that is doing nothing towards their health, clothes and shoes that are simply going on top of already overflowing closet…and so called “friends” who are draining their energy!

    The mind controls it all and yet for many it remains in a state of chaos – unfulfilled and deprived, and without clarity.

    Instead of investing in health in its every aspect, so that it keeps one joyfully alive, people rather spend their hard earned money on things that do not really serve and buying medicine to “cure” the dis-eased state of being.

    Students come to us and tell us how unsatisfactory the short term benefit was from going to the physical therapist and how much money it had cost. And yet just 10 sessions at Wellness Haven Yoga had already made a world of difference to them.

    A conversation from this morning with 3 students gathered together:
    One with a kidney transplant
    One with high blood pressure and osteoporosis
    One with an auto-immune disease

    All three had come in dissatisfied with their current state of affairs – through a local fitness membership with gym equipment, their regime with the physical therapist, or the medicine given by their doctors. Now all three are enjoying better health through Wellness Haven Gentle Yoga Class where every part of their body is being taken care of taking them towards better health.

    At Wellness Haven, we communicate with you to understand your current state of being and we provide you with our undivided attention through Breathing and Meditation practices, Yoga Asanas, Nutritional Guidance so that you can start leading a fulfilled life. If you are facing an injury that your doctor has done all that they could and you are still in pain with no alternative, Wellness Haven Gentle Yoga or 1 on 1 session at Wellness Haven Yoga is what you may need. Always check with your doctors first.

    Which type of class would you like to begin with? https://btb.poy.temporary.site/wellness-haven-yoga-classes/

    Don’t wait for medical conditions to strike. Don’t invest in things and places that will simply waste your money and time. Take charge of your life, for you are worth it.

    We would love to read your comments below. Please remember to share your joy with others.

  • Blessed At Wellness Haven Yoga

    Blessed At Wellness Haven Yoga

    Blessed

    At Wellness Haven Yoga School we are very blessed to have the most positive, joyful, progressive, compassionate and kind people who come to us and become a part of our amazing community, a family of people who care and share and learn and progress together.

    This is only because we encourage and support such holistic behavior, for we truly follow the 8 limbs of yoga.  We are not just any yoga studio where one comes in for exercise and goes. We are a FAMILY. We have similar life philosophies, same wholesome attitudes.

    This is very beautifully expressed in the quote by Will Smith:
    “Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and work hard. The right people -the ones who really belong in your life-will come to you. And stay. ”

    We would love to read your comments below. And please remember to share your joy with others.

  • A Healthier Lifestyle

    A Healthier Lifestyle

    A Healthier Lifestyle

     

    A key aspect of any nutrition program should be to keep one healthy and not starving or depleted or in misery!

    At Wellness Haven we believe in gradually changing our lifestyle so that we are on a healthy path. We do not believe in yo-yo behavior patterns that actually destroy the lifestyle for the worse and not better.

    We also believe that “losing body weight” is simply a byproduct of changing to a healthy lifestyle and is not the soul purpose of the program. Over the long run changes in eating habits is what makes the most difference. Our students realize this, experience this and tell us that they feel lighter in both body and mind, that they have to change over to smaller size clothes, their yoga forms have improved, their families are eating healthier, many physical issues have disappeared, no more acidity or heart burns or feelings of being bloated, no more headaches, change to positive and healthy thinking, and in general are much more joyful.

    We believe that all three aspects of life need to come together for a joyful and peaceful human: PHYSICAL aspects through yoga asanas and nutrition and MENTAL and SPIRITUAL aspects through Breathing and Meditation practices.

    What else can you ask for?

    Get back on the healthy life track today for life is meant to be lived peacefully and joyfully. For those who are always concerned about the financial investment in your own body pay attention to:
    1. How ill the body feels when hit because of bad health
    2. How money flows out with hospital visits in spite of health insurance
    3. How the quality of your life suffers whenever in pain
    and
    4. How much money you spend for a few hours or a few days of pleasure when you eat out or buy materials or fly out for vacations.

    We all need to fix our perceptions for therein lies the key to health.

    We would love to read your comments below. Please remember to share your joy with others.

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