Savasana or Corpse Pose

Savasana or corpse pose. I went to my first yoga class when I was around 12 years old with my mum and totally didn't get it, I fidgeted and looked around at everyone else in their strange contorted positions wondering why anyone would do that to themselves. When I was 18 I met a beautiful woman that changed the course of my life forever, she invited me to attend her yoga classes for free and it turned out to be the greatest gift anyone has ever given me. I can remember laying in savasana at the end overwhelmed with emotion as to why I had never experienced anything else quite like it in my life. It was the first time I had experienced true relaxation, the first time I realised I am not my thoughts, that I am more than my body and heard the concept of the witness or observer, it totally blew my mind and got me hooked. I love teaching movement but my heart is in teaching people relaxation. Learning to relax changed my life and I believe it can change everyone else's too. Creativity, insight, wisdom, gut instinct, healing, intuition, tapping into the flow all occur during states of relaxation. All of the greats have had the greatest inventions and insights when they have tapped into these relaxed states. What happens during this relaxed state is our brain waves change frequency, we travel from beta waves which are emitted when we are consciously alert, with a heightened state of logic and critical reasoning. These brain waves are important for effective functioning throughout the day but can translate to stress, anxiety and restlessness. We then travel to alpha which is where we are physically and mentally relaxed. It's where we slip into a lovely daydream or light meditation. It heightens your learning, memory and visualisation and is where we access the voice of intuition. We then travel into theta waves where we experience deep meditation or light sleep, this where we access deep creativity and spiritual insight. Which then leads to delta waves which is experienced in deep, dreamless sleep and is where healing and regeneration occurs. Experiencing the different brain waves and the insight gained from each is vital for health and wellbeing. How often do you go from high frequency on the go to comatose each and every day. Experiencing true relaxation is being able to attune to these brain rhythms more intimately and is truly magical as you feel yourself flowing from one state to the next, into the next, until you feel like you're in another dimension altogether. Relaxation is an art and science and I find it doesn't always come easy as we are so socially conditioned to be busy all the time, but once you have tapped into those states just once you'll be yearning for more.