Stay Fir, Live Healthy & Feel Young Series 15

Yoga Supports the Nervous System.

🌿 Yoga works on the nervous system, keeping it in balance so that you feel better able to deal with unavoidable stress that are part of daily life.

🌿The nervous system is autonomic and functions involuntarily, ensuring that nerves transmit messages between the brain and organs, muscles,and glands, through the central nervous system in the brain and spinal cord.

🌿 The autonomic nervous system is divided into two: the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

🌿The two systems work in a complementary way. As the brain anticipate danger, the sympathetic neurons in the spinal cord release chemical nerve transmitters. These trigger target organs, muscles,and glands to prepare the body for fighting the danger or fleeing from it. When the parasympathetic nerves are stimulated, they gradually cancel these responses.

🌿 The sympathetic system is important because it primes us to deal with stressful situations, promoting alertness and quick thinking. When the parasympathetic system is in action after a period of sympathetic activity, it provides optimum conditions for good health.

🌿 Yoga practice restore the balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

🌿At the beginning of the Yoga sessions, practice Sun saluations to start reducing sympathetic nerve impulses.

🌿Then practice asanas that focus mostly on flexibly, followed by appropriate relaxation poses like sirshasana, sarvangasana, halasana, matsyasana, sasakasana, bridge pose, and padmasana

🌿 Now you practice on 'rest and repair' impulses in the parasympathetic system such as bujangasana, salabhasana, and dhanurasana

🍁The set of above yoga asanas help the nervous system function, leading to a sense of complete relaxation and rejvevation.