Essence of Body and Soul

23/09/2026

Today is for the 7th chakra also known as the Crown chakra, a connection to yourself, your energetic body and your consciousness.

Its where individual consciousness merges with the universal consciousness - expandes awareness, inner wisdom and peace, clarity of purpose and feeling aligned with universal consciousness.

Represented by the colour white or violet

If balanced you feel grounded, you trust your inner wisdom so you feel connected to the purpose, meaning and flow of life.

When unbalanced you feel disconnected, spiritual confusion and affects your overall sense of purpose and connection. You may experience depresdion,, doubt yourself headaches, restless sleep or brain fog amongst others.

Techniques we can do to bring us back into alignment are:

Meditation pose
Child's pose
Co**se pose

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22/09/2026

We do this movement to babies to settle them. Its time to use it on yourself.

22/09/2026

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22/09/2026

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20/09/2026

Happy Monday

20/09/2026

One of the reasons I love being able to do yoga in the Baldivis Children's Forest is that we have trees surrounding us 🌳

Spending time in forests has been associated with lower stress, heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol, and some studies report changes in immune activity. These effects are more plausibly linked to the overall forest environment and relaxation response than to proven transfer of healing electrons from trees into the body.

20/09/2026

THE OLDEST BIOHACK ON EARTH. 🎵🌿

Every spiritual tradition figured this out independently. Tibetan monks chant "Om." Hindu yogis chant "Aum." Sufi mystics make low rhythmic vocalizations. Catholic monks Gregorian chants. None of them knew about the vagus nerve. All of them knew the practice produced a state of calm, focus, and physical wellbeing that other practices didn't replicate as fast. Modern neuroscience just caught up.

Stephen Porges at the University of North Carolina developed the polyvagal theory in the late 1990s. The vagus nerve — the longest cranial nerve, running from your brainstem down through your neck, lungs, heart, and gut — controls the parasympathetic "rest and digest" response. Activating it lowers heart rate, reduces inflammation, calms anxiety, and improves digestion. The challenge has always been: how do you activate it consciously? The answer turned out to be specific and ancient.

The vagus nerve runs immediately behind your larynx (voice box). When you hum or chant, the vibration mechanically stimulates the nerve from the outside in. A 2010 study from the International Journal of Yoga measured heart rate variability — the gold-standard marker of vagal tone — during 5 minutes of "Om" chanting versus 5 minutes of silent meditation. The chanting produced a significantly larger increase in HRV than meditation alone. The vibration was doing something the silent breath couldn't.

The protocol that works in clinical anxiety research: inhale through the nose for 4 seconds. Then hum a low, sustained tone for as long as the exhale lasts — typically 8-12 seconds. The tone should be felt as a buzz in your chest, not just heard in your throat. Repeat 5-10 cycles. Total time: about 2 minutes. Measurable effect on HRV within the same session, cumulative benefit over weeks.

When was the last time you hummed something out loud? 👇

📚 Study: Kalyani BG et al., 2011 — Neurohemodynamic correlates of 'OM' chanting: A pilot functional magnetic resonance imaging study (International Journal of Yoga, PMID 21654971)

20/09/2026

Saturday October 3rd
Yoga in the forest
👣🌳🧚‍♂️🧘‍♀️

20/09/2026

I see me day 4

Today I took my photo at the beach after I had been in the ocean as it's my happy place and I feel sooooo good afterwards.
I can see a difference in my eyes.

I nearly didn't go and afterwards it was a reminder of how much I need it.

20/09/2026

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