Yoga Bliss

Part memoir, part theory, part research, Yoga Bliss explores why so many yogis experience profound serenity on the mat.
Woven throughout is Sharon Heller's own story of how, following head trauma, yoga became her go-to therapy to calm and quiet her nervous system.

What accounts for yoga bliss? Many attribute it to a spiritual experience.

Yoga Bliss views it from a neuroscience perspective. Yoga postures and pranayama (yoga breathing) profoundly balance and organize the nervous system by:

• Changing vagal tone & brain waves
• Rewiring the brain
• Integrating the senses from yoga postures enormous input into:
• Proprioception (Sense of Body Awareness)
• Vestibular (Sense of Balance)
• Deep Pressure Touch (Think Bear Hug)

Strong sensory input from these three primary, power senses releases at once a calming, visceral, and energizing chemical cocktail. The result is profound relaxation, uplifted mood and sharper thinking.