By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT, ERYT500
Los Alamos
We all know about the very end of a yoga class and often when in a class full of active postures, we just can’t wait to relax into corpse pose.
I hope the articles I’ve been sharing over these last months have given you an idea about the breadth of yoga and all it encompasses.
Sometimes in the West we forget that yoga isn’t just about the poses, and the media does a terrible job of exploring the breadth of practice.
Many types of yoga (gentle and restorative specifically) all have the ability to help us tune in, relax, bring ease to our breath, slow down the mind, shift our emotional patterns, surrender into non-doing and tune into the healing ability of our nervous system when it down regulates.
This doesn’t happen as well in a traditional yoga class. If your body is accumulating more aches and pains, tension or stress as time goes on, you might just find restorative yoga is the key to finding more balance, less pain and stress in your body.
Restorative Yoga is about cozy blankets, bolsters, blocks, straps, eye pillows and many other props aimed at completely supporting the student practicing yoga.
Restorative yoga is not just about props, it’s about being completely supported from top to bottom. When was the last time you felt that in your life?
Restorative yoga is molasses slow – in fact while you are in the posture there is no movement. You might do some breathing techniques or focus on a word or phrase to help quiet the mind but it is about stillness and surrender. In between the postures there is a little bit of movement, just to juice the joints and prep for the next posture.
Poses are typically held for 3-10 minutes in a restorative yoga class. Luxurious right? Time allows your body and mind the opportunity to pause, reflect, allow and release. You might also find you become very quiet.
Now, just because it is gentle and slow, doesn’t mean it’s easy. In my mind, restorative yoga is actually advanced yoga – being still and quiet, letting go and releasing are not easy to do. If they were, we wouldn’t be so stressed or have so much chronic pain in our lives.
On the surface, Restorative Yoga helps to relax the body and mind. On a deeper level, Restorative Yoga can help reduce chronic pain, long held tensions in the body and the mind, help with mobility, anxiety, depression and autoimmune disorders.
Want to see if Restorative Yoga is right for you? I’ll be starting a small group Restorative Yoga Class on Friday, Oct. 8 at the Small Business Development Center Conference Room. Class size is limited to 6 people maximum. Classes are $15 each or $12 when you purchase a four-class pass.
Registration is recommended – you can register at https://ift.tt/2YhUXDa or feel free to drop in. All props including yoga mats are provided. Please wear a mask.
Jacci Gruninger is a Certified Yoga Therapist and Thai Yoga Massage Therapist. She has been teaching for 21 years and spent 12 of those years training yoga teachers for the Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts. She regularly helps clients manage the ups and downs of life with yoga, meditation, breathwork and bodywork. Her office is at 190 Central Park Square #209. For the in person and online teaching schedule and information on other services, visit www.yogawithjacci.com.
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