We all know the symptoms: sneezing, watery-itchy eyes and a runny or a stuffy nose. Now that Spring is here, allergy sufferers could be experiencing those symptoms more often, but yoga can help.

Kim Beyer-Nelson has suffered from allergies as long as she can remember.

"I was diagnosed with asthma about the time I was six, and so I went through of course the allergy shots, the various kind of medications -- it has continued into my adult life," said Kim Beyer-Nelson, LifePointe.

But it wasn't until she started taking yoga that she found true relief.

"What I found was, I'll be darn, if I came to my mat stuffy, I wasn't stuffy when I got done. I was breathing better, deeper and slower," she said.

Now she's teaching yoga.

"Also, with sinus kind of allergies, inversions tend to allow the sinus to drain," Beyer-Nelson said.

Helping her students learn how yoga can help their allergies, too. According to Beyer-Nelson, stress aggravates allergies. It also weakens the immune system, making your body more likely to react to everyday allergens. But because yoga is so relaxing, it has the opposite effect.

"The yoga postures, if done correctly, are like getting a massage. So our physical body gets to relax. Also, we're breathing very slow and easy," Beyer-Nelson said.

"Also the deep breath work that we're doing helps to clear the bottom lungs -- old air -- some of the mucus buildup."

She also said yoga helps reduce some of those annoying symptoms.

"Mast cells are the cells in the body that produce histamine that make our eyes to water and our nose to run etc.. And it seems the gentle pulling and stretching of yoga - does have some of the mast cells."

While there hasn't been a lot of research done on the impact yoga has on allergies, there's also no risk. Experts say if your have allergies, you may want to give it a try.

Beyer-Nelson is glad she did, and she said the key isn't just the relaxation. Yoga also connects you with the world around you.

"If you've got a bond with world, then a lot of times the allergies aren't as bad. So the less stressed and more open you are, the less allergies," she said.

Yoga isn't a cure-all. In fact, Beyer-Nelson still takes medication, but she and other experts say the combination has proven to be helpful.

The next session will be held Saturday, April 12 from 9 a.m. to noon at LifePointe in Lincoln.