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To Rest & Reset
Primed to sense danger your brain is ever ready to freeze, fight or fly to keep you from harm. But life is sweet when you feel safe
Hit Your Reset Button
Long term, arousal drives up blood pressure and inflammation while dampening immunity and contributing to maladies from heart disease to anxiety disorder
Safety is your reset button, normalizing all your bodily functions, driving healing and repair and letting you enjoy physical and mental wellbeing
Rest & Digest
Resetting The Vagus Nerve
The most extensive nerve in the body, the vagus messages safety to all your organs to calm your heart and breathing, stimulate digestion, drive down inflammation and let your body heal
How Will I Benefit?
Through gentle yoga exercise, breath-work and guided imagery and relaxation you’ll reduce arousal, with benefits including
- down-regulating inflammation to reduce tissue damage and ease pain
- relieving irritable bowel and generally improving digestive health
- lowering blood pressure
- calming stress and anxiety
- clearing mental fog
- managing migraine, improving sleep and a whole lot more …
Live Online Assessment
Free Of charge & Obligation-Free
To tailor the classes to your needs please contact Manuel for a live online chat and assessment before starting your class
Online Yoga Classes Schedule
Rest & Reset The Vagus Nerve
- Wednesdays 18:30 – 19:45 BST*
- Fridays 10:00 – 11:15 BST*
- Sundays 10:30 – 11:45 BST*
- Platform: Zoom
*BST = British Summer Time
Prices
- Assessment – FREE
- Single drop-in – £12 (GBP)
- x4 classes = £32 (GBP)
Suitability
- all levels from beginners up
Group Size
We keep groups to 6 max. so you get all the support you need to make your practice specific, safe and beneficial
Online Yoga Programme
Rest & Restore
The classes follow a functional approach to hatha yoga. This is a gentle form which avoids practising “correctly” in favour of practising correctly for you
You will explore ways to engage with your body to regulate the breath, calm the mind, awaken dormant muscles, release tension and find your inner quiet place to enjoy greater health and happiness
Activities include
- natural yoga postures (asana) and movement (vinyasa)
- exercises to de-stress your breathÂ
- active relaxation at rest and in motion
- yogic “sleep” (nidra) and other guided meditations
Frequently Asked
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What does the vagus nerve do?
The most extensive nerve in the body, the vagus is a multi-function nerve distributing positive emotional states to all your organs, from your heart and lungs to your digestive tube to regulate and reset their activities
Rest And Digest
The vagus is active when you feel safe, helping your body to replenish its resources and gather its strength, ready for the next emergency
The vagus mediates parasympathetic activity to slow breathing and heart and bring down blood pressure while increasing food absorption, transit and evacuation in your gut
Down with Inflammation
The vagus is strongly involved in down-regulating inflammation – a defensive mechanism – and up-regulating immune function to help reduce tissue damage, moderate pain and keep you healthy
Emotional Regulation
The vagus lets your organs talk to your brain, relaying hunger, satiety and all those gut feelings that let you feel and regulate emotion
Caring And Sharing
The vagus is also a factor in social engagement. Safety provides that warm sense of connectedness that lets you socialize, share a meal, listen to stories and build friendships
How Does Yoga Reset The Vagus Nerve?
When you feel safe the vagus nerves shares the good news with your body
By helping you to occupy your body, both inside (interoception) and out (proprioception), yoga anchors you to the here and now and helps you shift from fearing threat to enjoying safety
Activities that help activate safety include
- Breath regulation
- Listening to inner body signals (interoception), such as your heart beat, breathing and gut feelings
- Sensing your body in space in relation to gravity (exteroception / proprioception) through postures and movement
- Practicing active relaxation
- Creative visualization and meditation
Check with Manuel that it is safe for you practice yoga before joining a class
Where is the vagus?
The vagus is a paired cranial nerve exiting the brainstem withing the cranium just above the neck
Anatomically the vagus is closely related to the
- head-neck junction at the back of the neck
- muscles of facial expression, eye movement and head turning
- muscles of speech, chewing and swallowing
In addition to the aforementioned, yoga pays close attention to these areas to relax chronic tension and open your sensory windows to let in the beauty and wonder of the world
Online Yoga Class:
Rest & Restore
Booking Instructions
- Single Class
Simply select a date / single class and proceed to checkout
- Blocks Of 4
Select a date for your first class.
You’ll be allocated a place on 4 consecutive weeks from your chosen start date, subject to availability
You can change all dates up to 24 hours before your class: contact Manuel via the contact form or email him on
cranial-osteopath@hotmail.com
Block bookings are valid for 6 weeks from the date of your first class
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Practicalities
When buying a block of classes you’ll be allocated a place on 4 consecutive weeks from your chosen start date, subject to availability. You can change all dates up to 24 hours before your class
Bookings are valid for 6 weeks from your first class
Zoom
Online classes are run on Zoom. You’ll need to download the free app
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