Reset Your Nervous System With Restorative Yoga

There are a wide variety of yoga classes for people to choose from. Most studios offer a vinyasa style asana practice, where you flow through an hour or so of various standard yoga postures, and restorative yoga, where you settle into relaxing postures to tap deeper into relaxation. Today I want to dig deeper into the benefits of restorative yoga, not that it needs any more validity than it already has. If you've ever done restorative yoga you know, the proof is in the pudding. Walking out of any restore class I take has me feeling as if I've become a cloud myself. 

When one signs up for a restore yoga class at their local studio, they can expect long holds in comfortable positions that accentuate a certain body part to stretch and soften. When I take restore yoga, I'm in my comfiest clothes, ready to enter into a sleepy-like state of deep relaxation within my parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is where we need to be for our body to do so many processes, such as digestion and restoration of cells. We live lives that don’t allow for much time within this system, so it’s important to carve out time in your schedule to be within this state. Taking a restorative yoga class at your local studio gives you the perfect opportunity to fall deeply into rest and reset while not disrupting your daily routine. 

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