Yoga for Your Digestive System + light lunch

Yoga for Your Digestive System + light lunch

Join Tanya before the Free Nutrition Seminar for a Yoga Practice Working Through Your Whole Digestive System.

“Some yoga postures apply pressure or compression on the digestive organs; other postures apply a stretch. These changes in pressure improve circulation, bringing an increased flow of fresh blood to the organs to enhance their natural function.”

April 15th 11am – 12:30 pm 

Cost $30 includes light vegetarian lunch and digestive aid drink (must book in by Friday 14th for catering purposes)

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Yoga for Your Digestive System

Includes a vegetarian lunch and Nutrition Seminar on Gut Health with local Nutritionist Steph Polson. (The Nutrition Seminar on Gut Health starts at 1 pm. A free separate event you can attend, read more here)

“Some yoga postures apply pressure or compression on the digestive organs; others apply a stretch. These changes in pressure improve circulation, bringing an increased flow of fresh blood to the organs to enhance their natural function.”

When: April 15th 11 am – 12:30 pm
Cost: $30 includes light vegetarian lunch and digestive aid drink (must book in by Friday 14th for catering purposes)

Yoga is beneficial in many ways to help you improve your digestive system. Join Tanya Zappala for a journey through your digestion system.

Twisting and stretching your body improves blood flow to the digestive organs, helping to enhance their function.
Certain yoga poses can stimulate the digestive organs, including the stomach, liver, pancreas, and intestines, helping to improve digestion and absorption of nutrients.

Stress negatively impacts the digestive system by slowing digestion and causing discomfort. Regular practice of Belly or Diaphragmatic breathing practice helps reduce stress and anxiety.

Yoga postures can help to improve flexibility and range of motion in the body, including the muscles directly impacting your digestive system. Increasing movement range can help reduce digestive discomfort.

Yoga encourages mindfulness and can help individuals become more aware of their eating habits. Mindful eating is slowing down and paying attention to the sensory experience, including food’s taste, smell, and texture. Chewing well increases your salivary enzymes; breaking down your food properly in your mouth takes the pressure off the rest of your digestive system.

Practising yoga can help to promote a healthy digestive system by improving circulation, stimulating the digestive organs, reducing stress, increasing flexibility, and encouraging mindful eating. Once grounded, hear Nutritionist Steph Polson share some excellent tips on improving your gut health for overall health.

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What is digestion?

Digestion is the process our body uses to break food down into small water-soluble molecules that can be absorbed into the bloodstream. The substances we absorb from our food include vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates and proteins. These are used by our body for energy, growth and repair.

Where does digestion begin?

The process of digestion starts at the mouth. Food is broken down through chewing and the digestive enzymes in saliva.  From the stomach, food is squeezed into the small intestine. Here, the digestive enzymes from the pancreas and bile from the liver and gall bladder neutralise the stomach acid and continue to break down the food. As the food passes through the lower end of the small intestine, the nutrients are absorbed through the lining of the intestine and into a fine mesh of tiny blood vessels. What’s left of the food passes into the large intestine, also called the bowel, where only water is absorbed from it.

Some yoga postures apply pressure or compression on the digestive organs; other postures apply a stretch. These changes in pressure improve circulation, bringing an increased flow of fresh blood to the organs to enhance their natural function.

Additionally, these movements work to move food efficiently through the digestive tract. Twisting poses are often used with this intent, moving food along to relieve constipation.

Movement of the diaphragm during breathing exercises also helps massage and mobilize the digestive organs but most importantly belly or diaphragmatic breathing helps to Reduce stress. Chronic stress can negatively impact digestion and enzyme production. Manage your stress through exercise, meditation, and deep breathing.

Yoga inversions are a great tool for improving your gut health. When in an inverted position, the weight from other organs is removed from the bowel. This change may allow waste products to move more freely along the tract.Yoga inversions for digestion include poses that invert the torso rather than just the legs.

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