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Feb232015
Integumentary System, Energy and Ego
Monday, February 23, 2015 at 5:54AM | robin 
Healing the Total Body: Where Western Anatomy Meets Eastern Spiritual Science
Healing Series, part 4
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Monday, February 23, 2015 at 5:54AM | robin Monday
Feb162015
Muscular System and Love
Monday, February 16, 2015 at 5:41AM | robin 
Healing the Total Body: Where Western Anatomy Meets Eastern Spiritual Science
Healing Series, part 3
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Monday
Feb092015
Skeletal System, fears and spiritual grounding: Healing series
Monday, February 9, 2015 at 5:59PM | robin 
Healing the Total Body: Where Western Anatomy Meets Eastern Spiritual Science
Healing Series, part 2
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Monday
Feb022015
Anatomy & Ashtanga Yoga: Healing Series
Monday, February 2, 2015 at 5:44PM | robin 
Healing the Total Body: Where Western Anatomy Meets Eastern Spiritual Science
Healing Series, part 1
Read on for more details...
tagged anatomy, asana, bandhas, chakras, eastern science, energy, mysore, nervous system, samskaras, vinyasa, western science | in ashtanga yoga, healing series, subtle body
anatomy, asana, bandhas, chakras, eastern science, energy, mysore, nervous system, samskaras, vinyasa, western science | in ashtanga yoga, healing series, subtle body Wednesday
Nov062013
What happens after yoga class: Where do the toxins and emotions go?
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 5:13PM | robin
capture who you are
After yoga?
What do you do after yoga class? You went, you opened, twisted, sweat and stretched it all out. You unleashed emotions and thoughts, and sealed it all in with intention in the end (savasana).
Do you then just go on with your day?
Yoga—if done mindfully—can create euphoria and bring you to your happiest self. It can also bring you to the opposite as it acts as a sort of catalyst to making you face your darkness, as all that you hold inside your tightest body parts rises to the surface and begs for your attention.
Yoga opens you
This happens without notice with yoga poses that open the hips and shoulders, abdominal twists and mainly yoga breathing (i.e., ujjayi pranayama). With yoga, you are not only wringing out toxins, but also releasing emotions and setting energy free...
Be with what you find
Whether magical or disturbing, you can capture the essense of all that comes up in your yoga class by working with it. You can write it down (to share or not),
tagged answers, body, breathe, creativity, emotional health, freedom, intuition, joints, nervous system, toxins, ujjayi breath | in psychology, yoga
answers, body, breathe, creativity, emotional health, freedom, intuition, joints, nervous system, toxins, ujjayi breath | in psychology, yoga Tuesday
May072013
protect your heartbeat, yoga can help
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 1:38PM | robin
hearts matter
You believe in your heartbeat. You live by it unconsciously, but more importantly, you trust it. It is a gage for how you feel. It's a symbol of livelihood. It's the engine for your life's blood.
When you inhale deeply to the top of your chest and feel the euphoria of your day—or stress, and then exhale deeply to the bottom of your solar plexus—as far as you can go held as long as you can go, you feel yoga.
You also feel your parasympathetic nervous system in action. Befriend it for stress-reduction and a healthy heart.
On the flip side, the sympathetic nervous system, which releases the adrenaline hormone when you are stressed, is predominate in sufferers of disease.
Your heart always beats though
Yes, it does but it matters how it beats. The ability of the heart rate to change its beating