Yoga talk & yoga slides by Flametree Yoga 11 July 2024.pdf

Yoga talk and yoga slides on the benefits of yoga and meditation, how it works, and how to get more very low cost yoga, or meditation, or both, in your life.

1. What Is Yoga?
How It works?
What It Delivers?
Yogatalksby
Dr Stuart McGill
Yoga & Meditation Teacher,
Darwin NT

2. My very practical,
professional, background
•Brought up chasing cattle
•12 years of tertiary education
•Professional rolesaround world
•My point is that yoga, isnot woo
woo.
•Otherwise, I wouldn’t be doing it!

3. Yogic practices include
yoga & meditation

4. Contents
What is yoga, & it’s key
benefits?
Some key waysit works
(para-sympathetic system)
Vagus / glandconnection
Studiesof yoga in
organisations
For more yoga talks, or yoga slides, please contact Flametree Yoga

5. Yoga can be
doable
& easy!

6. Definition of yoga:
A practice to quieten
your mind

7. Problem: Most of us are “wired” 24/7!

8. As a result, we
also often
work in toxic,
unpleasant, or
less
productive
workplaces.

9. Relationships also suffer
from stress, or lack of self
management skills

10. Stress also drives “comfort eating” (& drinking)

11. Benefits of yoga:
Be fit, calm, flexible,
strong, & happy

14. Example: “Staircase breathing”
meditation also delivers energy.
Beats fatigue.

15. Yogic
practices
expand
particular
brain waves

16. Brain waves prove it works, & delivers

17. So, it also helps weight
loss:
"... yoga relieves
STRESS...by lowering the
stress hormone cortisol.
In turn, this lowers your
appetite”
Dr McCall

18. Yoga &
meditation also
create
mindfulness, &
allows you to eat
better &
mindfully.

19. Yoga is different from other
exercise, because its also a
body AND mind practice

20. Contents
What is yoga, &
benefits?
Some key ways it works
Vagus / gland connection
Studies of yoga in
organisations
For more yoga talks, or yoga slides, please contact Flametree Yoga

21. Vagus nerve is a major
brain – gut connection.

22. Vagus
means
wandering

23. Vagus nerve is the main nerve of your
parasympathetic nervous system

24. Humans are
fine tuned for
survival. To run
from danger!
Then recover!

25. But! We spend too much
time in the sympathetic
nervous system

26. If we don’t recover,
& have more
balance, we’re too
exhausted, hyped,
& aggressive!

27. Yoga improves your
parasympathetic balance

28. Otherwise, your
responses are
more from your
automatic
nervous system

29. Yoga practices help enable
you to impact automatic
responses

30. Contents
What is yoga, & it’s
benefits?
Some key ways it works
Vagus / gland
connection
Studies of yoga in
organisations
For more yoga talks, or yoga slides, please contact Flametree Yoga

31. Yogic practices are an
access to the power of
your vagus nerve, &
glands

32. Vagus nerve
“talks to”
master gland
(pituitary)

33. Pituitary
gland
“directs”
your other
glands

34. Glands then secrete,
or reduce, hormones
like cortisol (stress),
oxytocin (“love”),
adrenaline (energy)

35. From yoga, &
meditation, we
therefore get
better ‘vagal’
tone

36. OUTCOME
Compassion,
contentment,
happiness!

37. Contents
What is yoga, & it’s
benefits?
Some key ways it works
Vagus / gland
connection
Studies of yoga in
organisations
For more yoga talks, or yoga slides, please contact Flametree Yoga

38. 50,000 staff: 13,000
elected to do yoga
28% reduction in staff
stress
20% improvement in
sleep quality
Gain of 62 mins a week
of productivity per
employee:
Worth A$4,000 per
employee per year.
Overall, 11 to one
return on investment
Aetna case study
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/business/at-aetna-a-ceos-management-by-mantra.html?mcubz=3&_r=0 )

39. $6,721 due to underperformance from stress
$2,278 direct health care, &
$661 to absenteeism.
Av annual health costs for a Dow Chemicals
employee (US$).
Holistic yoga helps to reduce employee stress!

40. The
happiest
employees:
A 10th the sick-leave of others
6 times more energised
Stay twice as long
Twice as productive

41. You’ll
believe the
benefits,
when you do
it!

42. Start first
with simple,
easy yoga
postures

43. Effective Gentle Yoga
can also be done from
chairs

44. Avoid “one-size
fits all” sorts of
yoga classes or
studios.
Too hard!

45. Look for quality yoga
in a range of levels

46. Yoga includes both
postures &
meditation

47. Look for good
teaching… in STEPS.

48. Ideally, first use yoga
postures to quieten
your mind

49. So, get more fitness, de-
stressing, better health, & help
with any conditions.

50. Flametree Yoga Studio
FREE 1
st
yoga class
HALF price 10 pack at $5 each.
Online & at 3 NT locations.

51. Even for
beginners,
our yoga
retreats also
delightful, &
very useful.

52. Beginner Yoga Times:
Including Yoga For Backs, Gentle, & Restorative
Just turn up, no need to book. Unless online.
Check site for any updates of times.

53. Flametree Yoga also pays
referral fees for significant
levels of referral.

54. For yoga talks at your
organisation, please
contact Flametree Yoga
Studio.

55. For more yoga talks, or yoga slides, please contact Flametree.
https://flametreeyogastudio.com.au/