Did you know that when we take a big sight of relief, we reset our brain and support our vagus nerve?
Did you know that yawning is the action which activates the more parts of the brain?
Being trained I shiatsu therapist, I noticed that many people (must of us in fact) are not properly breathing. The breath is at the same time our blueprint, our history, related to the past and our key to access the body.
In the Chinese medicine, the lungs are responsible for connection and grief, we need to be able to let go to connect.
Did you know that we have 3 different nervous systems: the intestines, the heart, and the brain. From early childhood, even in utero, the first active nervous systems are our heart and our intestines (the so-called Hara area in the body). Upon outside stimulation, we get response from our environment, in reaction, we change our breathing pattern. All these info, neuroceptions are brought to the brain via the vagus nerve. In other words, the brain is only a story maker, to make sense to what happens within the body, and the brain is designed to see the worth scenarios, it is how we survived!
The breath is therefore the response to the outside, but it is also our possibility to modify our state of being.
More and more scientific studies have proven mental benefits like restore and sustain nervous balance, insomnia prevention, emotion control as well as physical benefits like pain relief and a boost to the immune system.
Restoring the balance between our various nervous systems will help us to nourish our sense of self, to take decisions based on wellbeing instead of stress and/or anxiety.
In my classes, I always combine some theory and a lot of simple practices. Always starting with gentle movements (do-In) and moving toward the inner movement of our being: our breath.
The theory helps our brain to give sense, and the practices are turned toward to develop awareness about our inner landscape. The reunification of the brain and the body (the heart and the guts) gives us grounding, more tools to navigate through the days.
In the individual session, we can go deeper, being more tuned to the moment, the needs, and the support to the breather.
Most of the people who join my classes/workshops come to ease some discomfort, yet at the same time they would love to find the perfect solution to get “fixed”.
Helas, we can only change by changing our routines, it takes at least 21 days to change a habit, so the recipe to success is a balance mixed of curiosity, a bit of self-discipline, moderation, and last but not least appreciation and smile.
Any journey starts by a single step, scroll down, you’ll find a sound exercise to practice heart-brain coherence, feel, try and observe and do it again (at least twice per day would be a very good start).
Make it fun ! Challenge your family and friends, practice together, support each other.
