The Yoga program at Tiger Muay Thai

Our training is intense everyday at Tiger Muay Thai and MMA training camp and takes a toll on our bodies, that is why each Monday-Friday we offer our guests an hour of relaxing and beneficial Yoga and meditation from 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

Yoga is especially beneficial for flexibility of joints, tendons, and muscles and helps prevent injury during training. It doesn’t matter if you are a novice or experienced in Yoga,

Simon our Yoga instructor, with a certification in teaching from India, will lead a class that will help you start your day feeling fresh and limber. Starting with some relaxing music in background, Simon will take you through a variety of stretching exercises and positions that will help increase your flexibility, posture, and balance.

Each Yoga class ends with a 10-15 minute session of meditation to relax and focus on your goals for that day’s training.

The Yoga Instructor

Simon has been studying yoga, meditation and martial arts since he was 7 years old. He has spent many years training in both India and Thailand for well over a decade, and has been teaching at various gyms since 2001. He is a certified yoga teacher by the Siddhartha Yoga Centre based in Dharamshala, India. He is also a level 2 Muay Thai Instructor, certified by the World Muay Thai Council.

He teaches a style of yoga based on a combination of Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga, which he has modified to suit the martial artist. The aim of his yoga classes are to develop flexibility, strength, balance, good health, focus, and mind development.

Pranayama which is the cultivation of life force (prana) through various breathing excercises, is also taught.

Plus he uses several meditation and visualization techniques, which helps the practitioner to learn to what Thais would call “jai jen” (cool heart) or a mentally relaxed state of awareness. The visualization techniques are designed to speed up your healing regeneration, as well as to improve your overall skills in both yoga and martial arts.

Classes begin with a sitting meditation, then a series of yogic asanas (postures) are taught, the last part of the class works with pranayama and finally some relaxation, vizsualization exercises.

Simon also teaches stick fighting and Reiki.
Yoga has been practiced by martial artist for at least 2000 years. When the legendary Yogi and Buddhist sage Bodhidharma AKA Tamo, was wandering China after leaving his life as an Indian prince, to become a yogi. Here he found the Shaolin temple. He taught them the yogic arts what came to be the linage of the Shaolin, who used this knowledge to explore their potential, and develop the shaolin arts.