Healthy Gut leads to healthy body&mind!

I often remind my students that the yoga asanas we practice in my power and holistic yoga classes are one part of a comprehensive system.  This Yoga lifestyle is based on a 5,000 year old tradition including eight key limbs or areas.  Each limb gives a guiding principal to follow that suggests the best way to live a healthy life physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The Yogic path is a way of life. 

Your body is a miracle and it is designed to heal itself. The Yoga asanas or postures are designed to detox the body of physical toxins, cleanse the vital organs and bring the mind and body back into harmony through pranayama or conscious breathing.  

Ancient Yogis believed that all disease, mental or physical, derives from the gut and blockages in the flow of energy through the body.  The twists, back bends and forward folds of yoga are designed to cleanse and detox your vital organs and supply your organs and muscles with fresh oxygenated blood.  These postures also stimulate the lymphatic system draining tissues of toxins and excess fluid to help the energy (Prana) flow. If you FLOW internally you’ll GLOW externally.  

Modern doctors, researches and holistic therapist have recently come to the same conclusion that detoxing the body improves gut health and resistance to illness. Keep your gut healthy and you’ll feel energetic, vibrant and enable your body to resist disease.  If we treat ourselves with loving kindness and care we equip the body to heal itself and maintain the vital self healing energy we all possess.  Dis-Ease is literally the resistance to ease, the resistance or failure to care for oneself. 

Through the yogic tradition we empower our whole self to be healthy, happy and live life to our fullest potential.  Dr. Edward F. Group, founder and CEO of Global Healing Centre in the US is also passionate about spreading this message of healing your  gut. He says 70% of your immune system resides in your gut. He recommends detoxing your body to eliminate the root cause of any disease. Eating Organic and healthy foods, reducing stress by doing breathing and meditation and keeping your spine healthy so your flow of energy is healthy. 

          Namaste 
          Luma