This-morning was the final session of four taking place throughout January on Sunday mornings. The theme of these "Forrest" inspired yoga workshops was looking at the balance between our physical, mental and emotional health and how the three cannot be separated if we desire total health. To understand emotion, we have looked at the 3 layers of the brain and recognised the 'limbic' system is fully developed by the time we are 3-5 years old. Primarily concerned with survival, the limbic system is emotionally reactive and incapable of making thoughtful decisions. Breaking free from this hijacking requires us to make new neural connections and patterns through mental conditioning.
Caroline's workshops focused on specific areas of the body, namely shoulders and hips, where we tend to hold most of our pain and struggle and looked at what needs to be done and shifted to take away the tightness and struggle from our yoga practice, through recognising our emotional triggers.
Ana Forrest (below) is the creatrix of Forrest Yoga and the author of Fierce Medicine. If you call yourself a 'yogi' and haven't read this book, it is a masterpiece and essential reading. Caroline was fortunate to undergo an Advanced Teacher Training with Ana in the summer last year, along with another 40 advanced teachers from all around Europe. An awesome experience and she adopts "Forrest" yoga into her classes at every opportunity.
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