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The Neuroscience of Yoga
I started doing yoga daily whilst amidst intense study, an MSc Neuroscience followed by a Ph.D., I was stressed and needed something to counteract it. Yoga was my savior, my destress tool. I could feel the positive effects but being me I wanted to know what was going on inside at a biological level. What I began learning fascinated me, so much so that I left my Ph.D. and became a yoga teacher. Here is a snippet of what I’ve been learning recently, hopefully, it will interest you too…. As far back as Krishna (3228 BC), India’s greatest prophet, there are writings referring to electricity in the body, the spine…
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Surviving jet lag
Whether you travel for fun or for work there’s no escaping the jet lag….or is there? On all the previous trips I’ve taken I’ve always resolved to a few days of feeling pretty rotten on arrival. However this time we were traveling with two kids so I really wanted to minimize the effects of long haul flying, both for us & them. So I did some research, added in some of my own tweaks and came up with a plan that would leave us feeling fresh on arrival and jet-lag free. No Caffeine, No junk The first thing we did the morning of the flights was vow to keep it…
