It’s a warrior’s breath. A breathing technique that stimulates metabolism and generates inner heat. You can appreciate its benefits more and more as you march along the bridge towards meno- or andropause. As you inhale with a little tension on … Continue reading Ujjayi Breathing to speed your metabolism up
Charlotte is 4-6 month old and her mom suffers from alcohol addiction. The mom won’t be able to give her adequate nurturing and support in the middle of her own misadventure, and Charlotte will feel abandoned. She wants to survive and she chooses the survival strategy of disconnecting from the earth, ignoring the base of existence, the ground, the safety, the core. Charlotte grows to be an intelligent young girl, but her childhood wounds she doesn’t want to break up open. They created too much of fear in her. She’s avoiding facing with them, and as a result she has … Continue reading Childhood traumas to heal with Grounding Exercises and the Wisdom of Chakras
Twists are releasing tension, therefore they are highly recommended when you’ve been exposed to stress for a long time. Let’s be precise, when you’ve been thinking that things are not going well around you, which is often matter of perception. You find a conflict at work disturbing, threatening even, whereas it’s nothing serious reality, certainly it doesn’t put your life in danger. Yet your system has one way to react, pushing stress hormones out to the blood stream, brain and limbs to prepare you for flight or fight to protect your life. Sometimes, on the other hand, you are not … Continue reading Come and Twist Again
One of your stress hormones, the alfa hormone cortisol may be low or high, you think. In reality it can be low when it should be high and/or high when it should be low, or low usually or high most … Continue reading Instead of Burnout Get over Cortisol Dysregulations
You want to relax your adrenal glands, calm your nerves down, and you need to strengthen all just in a little time. Go for this exercise. In yoga it’s called the boat or Navasana. You would think all you need for balancing in this position, is abs. Yet what you need more here is your psoas that goes underneath your abdominal muscles and you will also strengthen your quads and abs eventually. Psoas is a pair of symmetric deep core muscle, as huge as nearly your wrists, that originates from the two sides of your spine at your lower back, … Continue reading Balance and train your Core
When you want to calm down and regain your inner balance, you want to pick a balance exercise to practice. Due to the level of concentration it requires not to fall, and due to the slowed down breathing to help focusing, you slow down cortisol release and relax your adrenal glands. Do it in the evenings or after stressful meetings. This position is good for beginners, too, because it’s far more easier than it looks, yet, it’s so impressive that it quickly gives you pride and satisfaction. Here while balancing you are stretching your quads, twisting your spine, opening your … Continue reading Impressive yet Easy and even Beneficial
According to Hatha Yoga traditions, inversions revitalise the whole system. They are cleansing and nourishing the body at the deepest levels. Yoga masters say that the entire physical system, under control of the brain, is energised and nourished as the brain is washed clean by the increased blood flow and flooded with rich new ingredients. Inversions improve circulation and lymph drainage, they nourish cells in the face, they ameliorate intestinal sluggishness by improving digestion and elimination. They are marvellous aid to sleep. (1) One of my yoga teachers (Etka Anyó) said that 5 minutes inversion a day makes you a … Continue reading Headstand with leg variation
