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New research is showing that it is more important to improve the way we respond to stress than it is to try to eliminate stress in our lives. For this reason, yoga, meditation, and breath practices are key to training the nervous system how to respond to the realities of daily life with less stress-inducing reactivity.

Relaxation, meditation, and deep breathing are the most beneficial part of a yoga practice in terms of overall health and well-being. Stress is now believed to be the culprit of 75-90 percent of all doctor visits. Physical, emotional and environmental stress is wreaking havoc on our energetic systems. Dr. Ralph LaForge of Duke University in a workshop at ACSMs Conference in Reno, Nev. in 2001, stated, after studying over 300 articles on the health benefits of hatha yoga, that the most important parts of a yoga class for overall health and well-being are breath and final relaxation. He taught that just 30-40 seconds of deep belly breathing can eliminate or reduce all physiological symptoms of stress. Given the number of doctor visits believed to be stress-related, this is a simple and highly beneficial technique we can do any time, anywhere.

Whenever we are willing to be present to the moment, we can see that stress and struggle come from concerning ourselves with the past or future, says Adi Vajra, meditation teacher at Flow Yoga. Meditation is an opportunity to come to presence and find peace. The more often we experience that peace, the easier it is to return to it.

Restorative Yoga is a style that supports the body in deep relaxation and passive stretching. This helps us to rest and digest by helping us to learn to relax, invoking a relaxation response (parasympathetic nervous system). Insomnia and digestive dysfunction are common symptoms of stress. Extensive research shows the following benefits:

Restorative, Yoga Nidra, and Yin Yoga classes focus on relaxing the body in restful postures. Note that rest is different than sleep. Rest provides the body an opportunity to renew and heal. Countless studies have proven the physical and emotional benefits of this. The restorative effects of yoga should never be over-looked, no matter what age, and sometimes slowing down the practice, going deeper in poses, and just feeling the restorative power of them does wonders for the body.

David Spiegel, M.D., author of Living Beyond Limits, reports, In medicine, we are learning that physical problems, such as high blood pressure and heart disease, can be influenced by psychological interventions, such as relaxation training. Indeed, the Food and Drug Administration issued a report recommending these non-drug approaches as the treatment of choice for milder forms of hypertension. Mind and body are connected and must work together, and this should be a powerful asset in treating medical illness.

When we are experiencing stress, the following systems get shut down:

Restorative yoga, meditation, and other energetically-balanced forms of Yoga, activate the parasympathetic nervous system also known as the PNS. Stimulating the PNS helps to lower heart rate, blood pressure, to stimulate a healthy immune system and keep the endocrine system operating well. When this system gets out of whack, or when the sympathetic nervous system gets over-stimulated, the PNS helps to bring it back in balance. This is called your autonomic response, or AR. How well your body responds to stress is measured by your AR. It is believed that if the PNS is tapped out or under-active, illness pervades. Yoga and meditation help to stimulate the PNS and improve AR (autonomic response).

Stephanie Adams is an ERYT 500-trained Yoga Teacher and owner of Flow Yoga Community in downtown Hood River, offering over 50 classes each week, including Gentle, Yoga for 50+, Restorative, Meditation, Align Flow and other classes to balance your body and mind. Go to http://www.flowhoodriver.com to see our entire schedule. Come as you are.

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WEST BATH The Dzogchen Meditation Center presents a free public talk today, followed by a weekend meditation retreat.

Shamatha Meditation: The Practice of Resting in Awareness is the retreat theme.

The public talk, Nine Techniques for Resting the Mind, begins at 7 p.m. tonight.

The retreat continues Saturday and Sunday.

The point here is to achieve an even and completely balanced state of being by means of these nine techniques for resting in shamatha discipline. We begin to have a good relationship with ourselves. That is the foundation of Buddhist practice in general, states Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

According to a news release from the center, The practice of calm abiding meditation or shamatha as it is known in sanskrit is the practice of settling the mind in the state of present awareness. When our minds are present and relaxed we feel a sense of freedom, wholesomeness and connection with our environment. Mind and body are snychonized in one-pointed nonwandering awareness.

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