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How to Relax with Restorative Yoga at Home in 60 mins | Yoga with Melissa 442

4,740 views · Published 29 June 2018 · 1:45:13 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Yoga with Melissa · 2018 · Howto & Style

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Restorative yoga is a style of yoga that uses props such as blankets, bolsters, blocks, pillows, chair, sandbags, eye pillows to allow our body to deeply relax. By relaxing thoroughly into the support of our restorative yoga props we can elicit a relaxation response. This is a neurological response that tells our body that we are safe and pulls us out of the fight or flight mode. When we move out of fight or flight mode, we can turn on the rest and digest system, allowing our bodies to shift into long term growth and repair. 

The effort involved in a restorative yoga class is conscious relaxation as opposed to mindless relaxation. When you watching tv, youtube or are scrolling through social media you are mindlessly relaxing. When we come into a restorative yoga pose, we recognize all the ways we hold tension in our bodies. In that way the effort involved in a restorative yoga class becomes about a willingness to look at how and where we are holding tension in our bodies and a willingness to allow the tension to soften into the props and ground. 

How will we do that? With an impeccable standard of comfort. It is up to us to take the time to create the ultimate environment of comfort for our body, nervous system, skeletal system, muscular system, organ body, fluid system, breathing body, joints and cells. We can do this by taking the time to build our props to completely support our bodies throughout our restorative yoga class.

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