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✧ Regular yoga practice can support insulin sensitivity. When insulin sensitivity is high, cells respond effectively to insulin, allowing glucose to enter the body cells and be used for energy.

✧ See more details in the slides, and let me know what you think.

✧ If you want to experience yoga therapy, know that while I finalize my studies I offer the first 7 sessions for free. You can benefit from this type of yoga if you struggle with constant tiredness, anxiety, poor sleep, high blood pressure, chronic stress, and poor digestion. Send me a message if you are interested. I have availability at the start of September. 

Note: The purpose of this post is for learning, and not for self-diagnosis or treatment. Yoga practices should not replace specialized medical guidance and/or treatment.

References:

Studying at The Yoga Therapy Institute

https://diabetes.org/health-wellness/fitness/blood-glucose-and-exercise

https://jaims.in/jaims/article/view/3987/

https://diabetessisters.org/resources/balancing-blood-glucose-and-mind-the-healing-power-of-yoga-for-women-with-diabetes/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323027

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/living-with-diabetes/emotional-wellbeing/stress

✧ May was the month of flowers.

I continued to cultivate presence through noticing what brings me joy, wonder, and connection.

Yes, there are moments that are hard, but as well there are moments in which I find hope, and strength again.

✧ Yoga therapy practice classes were ongoing. I am grateful, and happy about bringing movement, trust in their bodies, and relaxation into peoples’ lives.

✧ While I finalize my studies I offer the first 7 sessions for free. You can benefit from this type of yoga if you struggle with constant tiredness, anxiety, poor sleep, high blood pressure, and poor digestion. Send me a message if you are interested. I have availability at the start of September.

✧ What does yoga means to me?

✧ Some of the yoga practices, and philosophy are like an anchor to me.

Anchor for keeping me grounded in my body.

Anchor for keeping me grounded to support my family.

Anchor for keeping me grounded in my inner life.

Anchor for keeping me grounded in the day to day life.

✧ I love learning and feeling about how, and if certain yoga practices influence my biology, and perceptions.

Movement influences all the body systems.

Breath influences all the body systems.

Relaxation influences all the body systems.

Journaling influences all the body systems.

Life view, and philosophy on life influence all the body systems.

It is complex, and not black and white, but overall, yoga practices supported me in building more mental resilience, creating more strength in the physical body, and in connecting me with so many people.

Grateful 💛

Happy International Yoga Day, and Summer Solstice! 🌻

✧ Back in March I posted five less popular reasons to practice yoga. Let’s go into more details about each one of them.

✧ Today is about how yoga asana and pranayama supports the lymphatic system.

✧ The lymphatic system is one of the immune system parts, along with the spleen, thymus gland, tonsils, and adenoids.

✧ The lymph contains a high number of a type of white blood cells called lymphocytes. These cells remove waste like bacteria, toxins, viruses, or abnormal cells.

✧ The lymphatic system does not work using a central pumping mechanism. The lymph is moved forward by the skeletal muscles action, movement created during breathing, and contraction of smooth muscles in the walls of lymphatic vessels.

✧ The best exercises for lymphatic flow involve a combination of movement and deep breathing, including low-impact cardio, stretching and specific decongestive exercises.

✧ Yoga asana, and functional breathing practices are a great way to get your body, and lymph moving. Along with a healthy diet, sleep, and hydration, it supports your health and well-being. 💛


Sources:

The yoga therapy studies via The Yoga Therapy Institute

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3572233/
“Cueni LN, Detmar M. The lymphatic system in health and disease. Lymphat Res Biol. 2008;6(3-4):109-22. doi: 10.1089/lrb.2008.1008. PMID: 19093783; PMCID: PMC3572233.”

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/21199-lymphatic-system

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/body-systems-and-cancer/the-lymphatic-system-and-cancer

https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/how-to-improve-your-lymphatic-system.h00-159852189.html

✧ Sunday comes with a quiet message saying something like “a new week is coming, what do I plan to do with my time”, or with a quiet pressure to do, achieve, strive, plan. In an ideal situation, this kind of pressure is good, because it mobilizes my energy towards what I must, or need to do. However, over the course of time this kind of repeated pressure wears me down.

✧ This Sunday, I look back on the week that just passed, and I see that I did enough. Sometimes I decide more consciously what enough is, and most of the time my history decides what enough is. And it is normal to be that way, I “practiced” all my adult life to do more, and that taxed my body systems and mind.

✧ What I like about yoga therapy is that the human being is seen, and approached from all its aspects: physical, energetic, mental, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.

✧ Yoga practices have beneficial effects on all of these human layers. Every action at the level of one of the layers has an effect on all the others.

👣 Physical layer (Annamaya Kosha): the physical elements of our body: skin, muscles, bones, internal organs, etc.

⚡️ Energetic body (Pranamaya Kosha): the energy that animates us and sets in motion all the body systems: breathing, digestion, sleep, blood circulation, etc.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Mental body (Manamaya Kosha): thoughts, emotions, states, behaviors, which are automatic reactions to life’s circumstances.

🪷 Intellectual Body (Vijnanamaya Kosha): the wisdom of the inner voice that guides us in life, determination, will, and involves the element of choosing a response to life’s circumstances in line with our values.

♥️ Spiritual Body (Anandamaya Kosha): is the most subtle layer of the human being, it can also be called the “bliss body”. It allows us to connect with pure joy, and experience the connection with our divine nature.

P.S. While I finalize my yoga therapy studies I offer the first 7 sessions for free. You can benefit from this type of yoga if you struggle with constant tiredness, anxiety, poor sleep, high blood pressure, and poor digestion. Send me a message if you are interested. I have availability at the start of June.

✧ If April could be a word, it would be Returning.

Returning of cherry blossom,
Returning of rain,
Returning of repetitive patterns,
Returning to forgiveness,
Returning to hope,
Returning to self-compassion,
Returning to now.

✧ Knowing that we, humans, are prone to identifying, and storing the unpleasant experiences faster than the pleasant ones, I practice these monthly retrospectives to remind myself, and store in my memory the pleasant experiences too.

✧ Together with my family, I visited some parts of Japan. I enjoyed the sense of order, and organization while I was there. Their attention to details makes life so much easier, and enjoyable. Google Maps and Google Translate helped too 🙂

✧ I am almost halfway with the practice for the yoga therapy diploma. I am grateful, and happy about that.

✧ While I finalize my studies I offer the first 7 sessions for free. You can benefit from this type of yoga if you struggle with constant tiredness, anxiety, poor sleep, high blood pressure, and poor digestion. Send me a message if interested. I have availability at the start of June.

P.S. Share one thing that was pleasant for you in April.