Yoga for Chronic Pain - Importance of Breathing
Caitlin Anderson, PTA, RYT®-200 Caitlin Anderson, PTA, RYT®-200

Yoga for Chronic Pain - Importance of Breathing

Anecdotally, we all know that taking deep breaths can calm us and release tension. This can also help with pain management. 

Specifically, relaxing deep and slow breathing has been shown to reduce pain perception. Many of us tend to hold our breath when stressed or in pain but unfortunately this usually only serves to perpetuate the cycle.

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Yoga for Chronic Pain
Caitlin Anderson, PTA, RYT®-200 Caitlin Anderson, PTA, RYT®-200

Yoga for Chronic Pain

Our pain signals play a critically important role in our health and safety. But when these signals are over active or active longer than is helpful and protective, they can cause significant mental, emotion, and physical dysfunction. The impact can be severely limiting to your normal function.

Whether physical pain from injury, surgery, biomechanical dysfunction or emotional and mental pain from everything life throws at us, yoga can be an incredible tool in your personal arsenal to manage your symptoms and limit its impact on your daily life.

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