You have a vagus nerve. And guess what? We all have the nerve. It’s time to get familiar with your vagus nerve and get in touch with the various states mediated by the vagus nerve and our autonomic nervous system.
Polyvagal Theory helps understand that there is more to the ANS than the traditional understanding: fight or flight (sympathetic nervous system) and rest and digest (parasympathetic nervous system).
Contact us today and find out how to begin adding elements to your yoga practice that help you self-regulate your states. Private sessions are available on request.
To learn about different types of yogic practices that support Polyvagal Yoga techniques, visit our partner sites:
HRVYoga.com. HRV (heart rate variability) is a wonderful addition to a regular yoga practice for the person who wants see results Yoga is a practice where the benefits are usually realized quickly and easily. We feel better, we sleep better, we think better. There is something to seeing the “proof in the pudding” where the proof of your efforts is a measurable, tangible thing. Using sensors to track our HRV before, during, and after yoga practice can be an eye-opening experience, along with traditional experience of feeling better for having done yoga!
TampaYogaTherapy.com. Tish Ganey is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and an experienced, registered yoga teacher (ERYT-500) through Yoga Alliance and through the American Yoga Council. She is deeply involved in the mission of each of our partner sites and in bringing the knowledge and practices that benefit modern yoga and support traditional yogic philosophy.
Big Data Yoga. Yoga works. Let’s prove it. Big Data Yoga is a collective effort to join yoga students together to share the effects of their yoga practice. Primarily, this involves the data gleaned from wearing tracking devices like heart rate sensors to measure heart rate and heart rate variability. In addition, the softer results of the practice are collected to provide a well-rounded picture of what types of yoga practices work. We use set protocols to include the same postures, the same duration and frequency of classes, the same breath practices, and the same calming practices of meditation and kriya kirtan. This may be an organized and rigorous way to prove what the body has always known: yoga works!