Last Friday, I had a lovely birthday party with some real nice friends.
And I told my friends that as from today, Monday 12th of June, I would start with my daily practice of yoga.
Five years ago, in May, I came back to Finca Los Motivos, where I live, after having spent three lovely months in Shri Kali Ashram in Goa. There, we did yoga every afternoon, and honestly, it feels good.
Unfortunately for me, when I came back, I became ill, and thus I did not continue my practice. And then there was a lot of emotional hassle with trying not to break up with my partner and later there was the emotional digesting of breaking up with my partner. So to make a long story of five years of struggling, short: I did not do my yoga.
On top of not doing yoga, I did not do much else apart from being depressed most of the time. I also had my menopause and trying to get this Finca Los Motivos running and some money coming in, also gave me a lot of stress.
And as you know, stress give cortisol, and you end up with adrenal fatigue and a fat belly. And when your adrenals go out of wack, your thyroid is also going out of wack, and there is a whole snowball effect of all kind of hormones that have no clue where they are going, or they have just gone missing.
Depression, sleepless nights, panic attacks, it is all part of the picture.
Now yoga is good for rebalancing all these hormonal glands and your organs. Most people think it is about stretching your muscles (something I sure need to do as my flexibility is not what it used to be) But the mild pressures on your organs and glands, do make them work a lot better. And Yoga stretches your muscles and also your mind.
So, as from tomorrow, I am going to catch up with my yoga sessions. I started this afternoon, but it was still too hot in the yoga room so as from tomorrow I will make it a fresh morning session.
Starting yoga at 60
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