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Hi lovely.
You know the feeling. The moment on your mat when your breath finally drops lower, your shoulders come down from your ears, and something in you goes quiet. Like the tide pulling back.
That feeling has a name, and a nerve.
It is your vagus nerve, the long wandering pathway that runs from your brainstem down through your heart and into your gut. It is the part of you that knows how to soften, how to come home to yourself. Every slow breath you take on your mat is a quiet message traveling along it, telling your whole system that you are safe now.
This is not a metaphor. It is biology, and it is beautiful.
In a 2022 randomized trial published in JAMA Psychiatry, an eight week mindfulness practice worked as well as a leading anti-anxiety medication for adults with anxiety disorders, with far fewer side effects. Hoge et al., JAMA Psychiatry, 2023;80(1):13 to 21.
Read that again.
The quiet practice you already love is not soft in the way the world means soft.
It is powerful, measurable, and worthy of being understood.
That is the whole heart of Yoga Science School. We teach the science beneath the stillness, so you can stop wondering why your practice changes you, and start to truly know.
If something in you has been whispering that there is more here, this is your sign to listen.
With love and gratitude,
Jess
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