We are now finding modern science to prove what the ancient yoga practitioners have always known….

• Yoga is proven to balance our nervous system, returning us back to our rest & digest, or tend & befriend, versus fight, flight, or freeze.

• Yoga teachers us the breath through unusual or uncomfortable situations, so the sympathetic nervous system does not come online and take over with waves of panic.

• Yoga teaches us to be in the present moment versus avoid, dissociate, or check-out through unhealthy patterns or addictions.

• Yoga has been proven to improve HRV (heart rate variability).

  • HRV can be used as a means to indicate how balanced one's nervous system is balanced between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.

• Yoga aids in creating new neuropathways, and therefore new healthy habits.

• Those with consistent yoga practice have shown greater improvements in their PTSD symptoms, than those with only DBT.

• With consistent yoga practice, individual's insula and medial prefrontal cortex have shown measurable development.

• Many yogic texts connect and are deeply interwoven with the ideas in the 12 steps of recovery.

These are just a few of the simple examples of yoga’s powerful ability to help us ditch addictions or unhealthy patterns & find the freedom to live as your highest self.

For more information on this topic, you may reference the Y12SR Website (Yoga 12 Steps of Recovery), where I completed training in this area.