light BRIGHT!
I feel so lucky to have the opportunity in this lifetime to teach and work with Pregnant Women. The human body is an amazing vessel and working with women who bare the gift of life ignites the light within me.
This weekend I took an amazing workshop with my Doula Teacher, Kathy Julia and her amazing daughter, Nekole. The two of them a dynamic mother daughter duo shared with me the secrets of the amazing hormone Oxytocin.
Oxytocin is hormone produced in the brain and secreted into the Posterior Pituitary Gland and transmitted through the body via our Central Nervous System (CNS) Neurotasmitter and the Bloodborne Peptide Hormone. Simply put Oxytocin travels into our body via our cerebrospinal fluid and our blood. When Oxytocin exists in the blood it is what caused the uterus to contract the cervix to dilate and the mothers milk to be let down. When Oxytocin exists in the CNS it causes a mother to feel the maternal instinct (bonding), increases courage, decreases pain sensations, increases calmness, and decreases stress hormones.
I also learned in the workshop that we ourselves can increase and decrease our own Oxytocin levels. BOTH males and females CAN do this. In this workshop I learned specific tools that can be used to increase Oxytocin Levels. After coming home I had the profound realization that I already posses one of the biggest tools that can help to increase the levels of Oxytocin; YOGA.
I can’t wait to get on the mat this week. To work on finding my calm. So I can help a mother find her calm. A father find his calm. Families find their calm. For ALL TO CONNECT. For all to be a Union. For all to be one. For all to be Yoga.
The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings, and is derived from the Sanskrit root “yuj”, meaning “to control”, “to yoke” or “to unite.” Translations include “joining”, “uniting”, “union”, “conjunction”, and “means.”
