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12/18/2025

Yoga Is Science — Nervous
System Edition

Most people think yoga is about flexibility…
but in reality, yoga is a direct conversation with your nervous system.

When yogic teachings say things like your lens shapes your perception or your body holds your experiences, they aren’t poetic metaphors.
They’re literal, biological truths.

🧠 Your amygdala becomes the “lens” you see life through
When yoga teaches perception, science shows how past stress shapes the amygdala -
influencing how safe or threatened you feel in any moment.

🌬 Your breath directly regulates your vagus nerve
A steady breath isn’t just calming — it shifts your entire system from fight-or-flight into parasympathetic ease.

👁 Your attention rewires your brain
“Where attention goes, energy flows” aligns perfectly with neuroplasticity. Focus strengthens the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that helps us respond instead of react.

💠 Your body does store experiences
Muscle guarding, fascial tension, digestive patterns - these are nervous system responses to life, not character flaws.

🌱 Presence is a physiological state
Mindfulness builds interoception, the ability to understand the messages your body is sending before they turn into overwhelm or shutdown.

Yoga understood this long before neuroscience had language for it.
This is why I say, again and again:
👉 Yoga isn’t woo. Yoga is science.
👉 Yoga is your nervous system learning to feel safe inside you.
If you want to learn functional yoga, somatics, and the science behind every pose, breath, and sensation - you will love my trainings.

✨ Take the 20-Hour Anatomy Program — link in bio. (My 🎁 for December).

It’s the foundation for every functional, embodied, and science-backed yoga teacher.

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12/16/2025

For too long, yoga has been taught like a performance.
Perfect lines. Straight legs. Picture-perfect shapes.

And if your body didn’t fit the pose, you were told to “try harder” or “go deeper.” But aesthetic yoga was never the goal.
Yoga isn’t about forcing bodies into shapes — it’s about shaping the practice to fit real bodies.

Functional yoga honours:
✨ bone structure differences
✨ joint variation
✨ nervous system capacity
✨ strength over stretch
✨ sensation over appearance
✨ safety over performance

When you shift from aesthetic → functional, everything changes:
Your joints feel better.
Your confidence grows.
Your nervous system softens.
Your practice becomes sustainable, trauma-informed, and accessible.

This is yoga for every body.
Every age. Every size. Every ability. Every background.
If you want to stop performing yoga and start understanding the body you’re guiding, my 20-Hour Functional Anatomy Training will change everything.

✨ Learn to teach yoga that fits people — not the other way around.
Link in bio.

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12/12/2025

Your nervous system speaks long before you do🧘🏼‍♀️✨ ⠀⠀ If you’ve ever felt shaky, emotional, unfocused, or uncomfortable during yoga — nothing is wrong with you.
 Your nervous system is simply signaling that it’s reached capacity🩷 ⠀⠀ Instead of pushing through, try slowing down.
 Deepen your breath. Ground through your feet. Give your body permission to recalibrate. ⠀⠀ Overwhelm isn’t a failure🌸
 It’s a chance to respond to your body with compassion instead of force. Your body is always communicating. Practicing yoga means learning to listen🖤

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Join my free Anatomy of Yoga Teacher Training and learn to cue the body and the energy field!!🧘🏼‍♀️ DM for more info🧠✨

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12/10/2025

“Tightness” is not a flaw — it’s a message✨ ⠀⠀ When your body feels restricted, it’s rarely about flexibility. It’s about protection🩷
 Your tissues, breath, and nervous system are working together to create a sense of safety… not to frustrate you🧘🏼‍♀️ ⠀⠀ The goal isn’t to “force yourself open.” It’s to build trust with your body through repetition, gentleness, and choice. ⠀⠀ When the body feels safe, it naturally softens. 
Safety creates mobility — not pressure🖤 
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Join my free Anatomy of Yoga Teacher Training and learn to cue the body and the energy field!!🧘🏼‍♀️ DM for more info🧠✨

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12/08/2025

Teaching yoga isn’t about memorizing poses — it’s about understanding the body that moves through them🧘🏼‍♀️ ⠀⠀ When you learn functional anatomy, you stop guessing and start guiding.
 You cue with purpose. You sequence with clarity. You support your students with confidence because you understand how bodies actually function, compensate, and adapt. ⠀⠀ Anatomy doesn’t make your teaching rigid — it makes it liberating✨
 Because once you know the “why,” you can teach with intention instead of imitation. ⠀⠀ A confident yoga teacher isn’t one who knows the most poses.
 It’s the one who knows the body behind them🩷 
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Join my free Anatomy of Yoga Teacher Training and learn to cue the body and the energy field!!🧘🏼‍♀️ DM for more info🧠✨

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12/04/2025

Most people think the psoas is just a hip flexor.

But if you’re teaching or practicing yoga, you need to know the truth:
your psoas is one of the most powerful nervous system muscles in your body.
It doesn’t just lift your leg. It:

✨ stabilizes your spine
✨ communicates with your diaphragm
✨ responds instantly to stress
✨ stores protective tension
✨ affects your posture, breath, and emotions
✨ plays a huge role in “fight, flight, or freeze”

When you’re overwhelmed, scared, pushing too hard, or living in survival mode…
your psoas tightens to protect you.
Not because you’re weak or inflexible, but because your nervous system doesn’t feel safe.
And this is why stretching the psoas over and over doesn’t work.
Because you can’t stretch your way out of dysregulation.
You can’t force your way out of a safety response.

And… you cannot “open your hips” if your nervous system is bracing.
What does help?

Slow somatic movement.
Breath-led practices.
Functional strength.
Interoception.
Gentle hip extension.
And creating the kind of inner safety that lets the body release on its own.

This is yoga as science.
This is yoga as nervous system work.
This is yoga that actually transforms people.

If you want to truly understand how the psoas works — and how the entire body works through
the lens of fascia, biomechanics, and the nervous system —
you will love my 20-Hour Functional Anatomy Training.
It will change how you practice.
It will revolutionize how you teach.
And your students will feel the difference immediately.

🌿 Join the 20-hour Functional Anatomy Training — link in bio.

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The true question is, when does your story really begin? At birth? 5 years ago? Or 1.5 years ago? Anyway it goes, I am going to start with last August. I had been a nurse for 17 years in the ER mainly, I owned my own home, had 2 beautiful children and had a decent relationship with most people in my life. Yet, I was still unhappy. Even worse, I felt super guilty about being unhappy when I had everything I had ever “wanted”. I was going to Medical School, teaching yoga, received a promotion at work and was just about to run my first successful international yoga retreat.

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