The Most Important Yoga Posture Of The Class

Savasana is a very active pose!

At the end of the yoga class, when the body and blood are lowest in stress chemical levels, we want to spend the Savasana portion of the class with lighter and more relaxed breathing while we vividly imagine the feelings of great satisfaction.  

What Should I Be Doing In Savasana Pose?

Imagine that you have successfully completed a difficult job, assignment, project, creation, negotiation… a special achievement that means something to you personally.

While in Savasana, imagine yourself sitting in the future, and bask in the great feelings of this wonderful personal achievement.

For the last five minutes of the class we are floating in this gratitude, we are floating in this wonder, we are floating in this sense of satisfaction.

Reprogramming our Subconscious

We are intentionally flooding our body with the good feeling emotional chemicals and hormones - at the very moments when our stress hormones are at their lowest level. As we bring our brain and body to a deeply calm state, we can begin changing the habits in our emotional memory centers.

Taking Yoga ‘Off The Mat’

The longer we can keep that feeling through the day, the more we can re-train the nervous centers in our body… recondition the energy centers, the heart plexus, the solar plexus, and other glands - to produce the happy feeling, the gratitude feeling, the satisfaction feeling chemicals and hormones on a more consistent basis.

Our body begins to relax, it is safe to be happy.

Our brow becomes less furrowed, our shoulders drop, as we bask our entire body in this state of being we can easily imagine our immune system, all of the systems in our body working together as a happy team when we have the chemicals of gratitude in our body.

How Yoga and Meditation Synergize

By using the yoga class and the specific Moore Breathing Technique, we are intentionally lowering the stress hormones in our bloodstream.

While these toxic chemicals are at their lowest levels, we are intentionally imagining a rewarding sensation, a feeling of gratitude for something we want, as though it has already been attained.

We are flooding our body with those good-feeling chemicals and hormones of happiness to help retrain and recondition the emotional plexus in our body so they build the habit of producing the happy chemicals instead of the stress chemicals.