detoxify the body?
A look at yoga asanas and how they purify our systems...
From start to finish, our yoga asana/postures class is a purifying practice in that it helps eliminate toxins out of the body. First, our full yogic breath allows for better respiration of oxygen and most important, with long, smooth exhales, expiration of carbon dioxide. Better quality respiration and expiration gives us more energy therefore and improves energy flow. Circulation through body systems is therefore, also improved, allowing for toxins to be ushered out.
Now when we stretch, move, hold, and release with synchronized breath, tissues, organs, joints, muscles and all the internal "stuff" within us also gets stretched, moved, held, and released. Toxins literally, physically get squeezed, pushed, and pumped out. Let's look at some of the poses/movements.
Just to name some basics here, exhaling into a forward fold and then inhaling into a back bend or chest opener for instance, presses on internal organs and glands and then opens them back up. The more repetition we have with the movement allows for that pumping action to intensify the detoxification. Old blood is pumped out and new fresh blood flushes through and in. Inversions, or any pose where we are upside down, likewise has a strong detoxifying effect because blood flow is forced to go the opposite way. Organs and tissues are flushed with blood moving through them in the upward instead of downward flow. Think of shoulder stand or even down dog. When we come back up, blood flows more thoroughly and effectively through due to the momentum of being upside down and then right side up again. It's like a floodgate that opens and allows for better filtration. One last example to mention are the powerful twists. When we twist, not only the tissues and organs get detoxed, but the spine as well. Much like ringing a towel, old fluid and blood gets rung out and replaced with new fluid or blood. Other fluid that gets pumped and filtered through are cerebral spinal fluid, synovial joint fluid, lymph, etc...not just blood. Keep in mind that the deeper we go in the stretches, or even the longer we hold, in general, intensifies the level of circulation and detoxification to that area.
With yoga asanas being so detoxifying, what is critical is that we help our body maintain its' ability to keep toxicity in check by trying our best to reduce our intake and exposure to more toxins! In this way we avoid excess levels of toxicity thereby doing our best to prevent illness, disease, and discomforts/pain from taking hold. Keep in mind that the ultimate goal is to increase circulation while decreasing toxicity so that our bodies have an increasing supply of nutrient rich, clean blood and fluid to nourish and heal our bodies from the inside out. This is what we want circulating through our system to reach optimal health, healing, fitness, and conscious development. If we keep ingesting or exposing ourselves to more toxicity in our food and environment, then it simply becomes difficult for our body to be sufficiently nourished and optimally healthy. It is like the oil or gas of a car. What you put into it greatly determines how it operates and runs! Let your yoga asana practice with all its' forward folds, side bends, back bends, twists, inversions, strong holds, and flow of movements with breath, let it be even more powerful in bringing you back to good health by feeding it well and starting, maintaining, and developing a healthier lifestyle on the whole, healthier habits and routines!
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Now when we stretch, move, hold, and release with synchronized breath, tissues, organs, joints, muscles and all the internal "stuff" within us also gets stretched, moved, held, and released. Toxins literally, physically get squeezed, pushed, and pumped out. Let's look at some of the poses/movements.
Just to name some basics here, exhaling into a forward fold and then inhaling into a back bend or chest opener for instance, presses on internal organs and glands and then opens them back up. The more repetition we have with the movement allows for that pumping action to intensify the detoxification. Old blood is pumped out and new fresh blood flushes through and in. Inversions, or any pose where we are upside down, likewise has a strong detoxifying effect because blood flow is forced to go the opposite way. Organs and tissues are flushed with blood moving through them in the upward instead of downward flow. Think of shoulder stand or even down dog. When we come back up, blood flows more thoroughly and effectively through due to the momentum of being upside down and then right side up again. It's like a floodgate that opens and allows for better filtration. One last example to mention are the powerful twists. When we twist, not only the tissues and organs get detoxed, but the spine as well. Much like ringing a towel, old fluid and blood gets rung out and replaced with new fluid or blood. Other fluid that gets pumped and filtered through are cerebral spinal fluid, synovial joint fluid, lymph, etc...not just blood. Keep in mind that the deeper we go in the stretches, or even the longer we hold, in general, intensifies the level of circulation and detoxification to that area.
With yoga asanas being so detoxifying, what is critical is that we help our body maintain its' ability to keep toxicity in check by trying our best to reduce our intake and exposure to more toxins! In this way we avoid excess levels of toxicity thereby doing our best to prevent illness, disease, and discomforts/pain from taking hold. Keep in mind that the ultimate goal is to increase circulation while decreasing toxicity so that our bodies have an increasing supply of nutrient rich, clean blood and fluid to nourish and heal our bodies from the inside out. This is what we want circulating through our system to reach optimal health, healing, fitness, and conscious development. If we keep ingesting or exposing ourselves to more toxicity in our food and environment, then it simply becomes difficult for our body to be sufficiently nourished and optimally healthy. It is like the oil or gas of a car. What you put into it greatly determines how it operates and runs! Let your yoga asana practice with all its' forward folds, side bends, back bends, twists, inversions, strong holds, and flow of movements with breath, let it be even more powerful in bringing you back to good health by feeding it well and starting, maintaining, and developing a healthier lifestyle on the whole, healthier habits and routines!
JOIN ME FOR SPRING REBIRTH WORKSHOPS STARTING APRIL 6TH!!!
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