🚫NEVER SKIP COOL DOWN!🚫 How important is cooldown stretching practices after any workout? #shorts
Channel: Nirvana - Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedanta
Date: 2022-10-21

❌Never do this - Ep:7❌

Here are some additional tips info on COOL DOWN practices👇🏻💐

INTENTIONAL RELAXATION: The intention of this is to relax the body actively, consciously. This particularly -
* Calms our nervous system, activates/promotes parasympathetic activities which literally reverses all of those erratic changes in our vitals such heart & breath rate, blood pressure & body temperature. Everything literally comes back to RESTING MODE. This is very essential because otherwise, when we rush to catch up on our busy lives right after our intense workout/practice/physical activities, that'll result in constant, continuous & chronic stimulation of Sympathetic NS and that's when the heart muscles become weaker in the long run. This can be fatal, especially when coupled with other dietary & lifestyle imbalances such as lack of sleep etc (not to scare you - but I want to warn about early/untimely Cardiac arrest! We already have witnessed such cases, though it's not proven so, I'd like to consider this aspect too. You also think & research about it & let me know if that makes sense)

* Deeply relaxes the muscles - very helpful in avoiding stiffness & maintaining a healthy muscle tone. Also muscle recovery can get better & faster.

* It's more like meditation or concentration practice. So it also calms & preps the mind for the rest of the day - very effective to improve the efficiency of the mind.

There are many more of such benefits of NEVER FAILING to include INTENTIONAL RELAXATION practices, which you can & you will experience on your once you start practicing them.

So the 2 aspects of it are:

1. Shavasana or a quick/short Deep Relaxation Technique where you rotate your awareness through each & every part of the body inviting relaxation to it consciously. Take the help of a Yoga teacher initially, and then once you learn it, you'll be able to practice it on your own 🙌🏻

2. Slow deep breathing: For this you can either practice 15-20 rounds of DEEP ABDOMINAL BREATHING in Shavasana itself or sit up after Shavasana & practice 3-5 minutes of NADISHODHANA practice.

All of these will take at least 15-20 minutes.