PAIN CARE YOGA 2018 | Friday Round Up | Week 5

PAIN CARE YOGA 2018 | Friday Round Up | Week 5 | Integration Week #1

Published: Fri, 02/09/18

Hey ,

Welcome to Winter 2018 Yoga Session first integration week.

What the heck is integration week?

This is when we put a pause on new information and learning!

Going to multiplicity of yoga teacher trainings and retreats have taught me that integration time is the most important piece of healing process. This is when all the learning / growing actually happens!

New information - both physical and intellectual - tends to float on the surface of our awareness until we give ourselves the opportunity to pause, to be, and most importantly to feel what is right and valid for us.

Integration week is the time of processing - we make use of whatever makes sense for us and discard the rest. Integration week is the time to purge and declutter, if you will!

Before you get reading - how are your classes working for you?

This is just a 2 minute - short survey; please let me know what is working and what isn't so I can course - correct to teach better!

Now off to our reader's digest - a collection of articles that went out in January:

Please Introduce Yourself:

Welcome to Friday Round-up – a weekly class follow up e-mail that breaks down and explores in a more detail some of the concepts / alignment principles that we employ in class and on the mat.

I've shifted to teaching a 90 minute long classes several years ago - it seemed that we were forever running out of time in 75 minute classes. Friday Round Ups are a continuation of that process: the idea here is to catch the spill over of concepts, ideas and conversations - things we can't fully cover in the class environment.

Pain As An Alarm System + Ball Rolling For Pain Relief:

Welcome to your first Pain Care Yoga - specific e-mail follow up.
Our goals are lofty; our time together time is short. Weekly follow up e-mails are designed to supplement your mat practice; to expand your understanding of the new and emerging science of pain management; and to deepen your knowledge and felt sense of the body.

Stress and Pain:

As you now know, pain is our body's internal alarm system.

It only makes sense to assume that chronic stress - yet another trigger for that internal alarm system - will heighten our pain perception. You may - as most of us have, of course, - experienced that in real life.

Let's take a look at the mechanism of chronic stress <=> more pain relationship.

Sa - Ta - Na - Ma Breathing:

In the past two weeks we've spent a fair bit of time practicing SA - TA - NA - MA breathing.

Here is why this breathing practice is especially effective for pain management:

See you on the mat!

Julia + SATORI TEAM