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Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa
A Menagerie of Yoga Poses
Season 1, Ep. 27
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“Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensations. But our amygdala in the brain is carrying the “fight or flight response”; it has forgotten the art of releasing the tensions. As human beings, when we are aware about the sensations, we can release that by aware, slow movements. If you do not give movements to the body parts, energy will be stuck and blood circulation will be disturbed. Gradually, that creates chronic physical and mental health problems.”
Amit Ray (2010) "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
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