What’s Creates Yoga Bliss? Answer is Not What You Think
Yoga Bliss—that calm, settled, the world is a wonderful place to be is what many who practice yoga describe feeling sprawled out in shavasana, the traditional way to end class. I too felt this way often in the different forms of yoga I practiced for many years. But I felt it most intensely at the […]
Why Yoga is Sensory Haven
4-30-19 Better posture from yoga. Better focus. Better balance. Stronger muscles. Stronger core. Stronger nervous system! The list goes on. Yoga asanas stimulate and integrate all senses, enhancing sensory organization. They do so by providing: antigravity control postural control midline development core control coordination body awareness modulation and regulation of breath The Senses Proprioception comes […]
How Yoga Makes You Younger
5-15-19 “You’re as young as your spine is flexible.” ~Joseph Pilates How often do you exercise? The answer is critical to your well-being and how well you age. The body was designed to move. Our early ancestors hunted and foraged for food and water, carried children, and hauled tubers and melons. Hard work and much […]
How Yoga Impacts Brain Waves
5-30-22 When you are jumpy and anxious, your brain is spiking with high beta waves (18-40 Hz). When you are engaged, energized, and focused, your brain is spiking with mid-range beta brain waves (15HZ to 18HZ), present during waking and driven by dopamine. When you are relaxed and meditative, your brain is spiking with alpha […]
How Yoga Helped Me Survive Head Trauma
2-30-22 The arduous hour and a half Power Vinyasa class is at an end. Lying on my back in Savasana (the corpse pose)— eyes closed and eyeballs fallen into the orbits, arms spread and legs open slightly wider than the hips, palms up and chin slightly pulled down—my body, heavy, melts into the floor. My […]
What Creates Yoga Bliss? Answer is Not What You Think
4-16-19 Yoga Bliss—that calm, settled, the world is a wonderful place to be is what many who practice yoga describe feeling as they are sprawled out in shavasana, the traditional way to end class. I too felt this way often in the different forms of yoga I practiced for many years. But I felt it […]