{"id":7329,"date":"2019-05-13T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T06:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2023-12-23T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T14:29:58","slug":"digestive-health-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/digestive-health-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Digestive Health: holding stress &#038; trauma in the gut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0H1A6366BNHC-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Digestive Health\" class=\"wp-image-7332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0H1A6366BNHC-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0H1A6366BNHC-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0H1A6366BNHC-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0H1A6366BNHC-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0H1A6366BNHC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yoga teacher, Charlotte Watts explores the relationship between our digestive health and wellbeing in a blog series. Read on to find out how yoga can help us understand how we hold tension in the gut. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/yoga-for-stress-and-anxiety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read more about yoga for stress and anxiety in this complete guide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digestive Health and yoga<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>It will come as no surprise to those suffering from digestive disorders, how quickly stress affects our digestive health. Our whole digestive system is part of our emotional, mental, and physical landscapes; in a very real sense. Within the central tube that makes up the gastro-intestinal tract (gut), we find different layers (<em>koshas<\/em>) meeting in terms of how we experience our lives. We tune into our gut feelings and if we\u2019re wise, we trust our gut. In Yoga, digestion refers to all of life&#8217;s experiences, not just food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/\" style=\"background-color:#f52d63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Start my FREE 14-day Trial Today<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listening to our gut feelings<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>We experience gut feelings or \u2018butterflies in the stomach\u2019 when life becomes difficult or we feel unsafe or rattled. These are very real. Recent neuroscientific research shows that our instinctive feelings are registered by the enteric nervous system within our guts (our \u2018Second Brain\u2019). These are subsequently laid down as impressions in our central nervous system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that we listen to gut feelings as guides through life; we learn and remember places, scenarios, people that we designate as <em>not safe<\/em> so that we can quickly respond in survival and protective modes. These \u2018somatic markers\u2019 (as they are referred to in neuroscience) can be equated to the mind and body conditionings described as <em>samskaras<\/em> (mind habits) within the yoga system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen with discernment<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not to say that all of these gut feelings are simply right; we lay down many of our conditionings in early life as survival strategies.  We may be responding to sights, smells, sounds that trigger reactions from old events or circumstances that may no longer be valid in the here and now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many gut feelings should be listened to. We might be overdoing it or making decisions for reasons that are not true to our fundamental beliefs. When we go through life tensing our jaw to steel ourselves against those niggling doubts, we are often dampening down deeper more intuitive and instinctive feelings. These might tell us that we may need rest, change or to state our needs clearly. When we <em>think<\/em> rather than <em>feel<\/em> our way through life, we are shutting ourselves off from those feelings from down below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Emotions through the psoas muscle<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Our viscera, our guts, nestle in to our deeper abdomen into the cradle of our psoas, the muscle that holds us up and links bottom and top body. You can feel this in the soft tissues just to the inside of the hip bone. The psoas muscle, known as our &#8217;emotional muscle&#8217; tightens and clenches when we experience stress or trauma.  We pull our legs up into our body into the protective foetal response. Curling inwards helps us protect our belly, heart, and throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tightness in the psoas is commonly linked to lower back issues. Tension  pulls on the sacroiliac joint, where the lumbar spine fits into the pelvis. When we hold continual tension in the body through chronic stress or trauma, the psoas can remain tight and we might feel this in difficulty moving in the hips or anywhere else throughout the body, throughout the web of connective tissue, the fascia. This tightening ripples back through the digestive tract that the world must not be a safe place resulting in a vicious cycle. We relay back tension to the central nervous system to hold us in protective survival modes. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BLOG-HEADER-IMAGE-JOANNA-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BLOG-HEADER-IMAGE-JOANNA-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18926\" style=\"width:617px;height:346px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BLOG-HEADER-IMAGE-JOANNA-8.png 960w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BLOG-HEADER-IMAGE-JOANNA-8-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BLOG-HEADER-IMAGE-JOANNA-8-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BLOG-HEADER-IMAGE-JOANNA-8-624x351.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/course-take-heart-recover-gently\" style=\"background-color:#f52d63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for a FREE 14-day Trial and try the &#8216;Take Heart: Yoga to Recover Gently&#8217; Course<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tension equals disrupted gut function<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The digestive system works in parasympathetic mode of the nervous system &#8211; the calm soothing tone or \u2018rest and digest\u2019.  Any tension we continually hold interrupts and interferes with our digestive process. The smooth function and regulation of breakdown of food, absorption of nutrients and healthy bowel movements is disrupted. This affect how we take in nutrition and how we eliminate things that we don&#8217;t need.  Incomplete digestion can mean food hangs around in the gut undigested. This can result in changes to the beneficial gut bacteria, in excess gas, discomfort, pain and poor gut motility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YogaTherapyForDigestiveHealth-front-cover.pdf-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YogaTherapyForDigestiveHealth-front-cover.pdf-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YogaTherapyForDigestiveHealth-front-cover.pdf-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YogaTherapyForDigestiveHealth-front-cover.pdf-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YogaTherapyForDigestiveHealth-front-cover.pdf-624x891.jpg 624w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YogaTherapyForDigestiveHealth-front-cover.pdf.jpg 1345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finding the middle path<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Irritable bowel syndrome or IBS is related to nervous system changes in the gut. This can manifest as tendencies to constipation and diarrhea (or alternating between the two) as it struggles to find normal in the middle; lurching between holding on and letting go. When we feel calm, relaxed open and expansive, our nervous system can more easily find the middle way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The inflammation connection<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Stress and trauma also create inflammation. This is an important survival response to stop us bleeding to death following injury. The often low level, but chronic and relentless stress, that is part of the modern world can keep us in a state of inflammation at the gut wall. This can contribute to pain or digestive issues or be part of the picture for more pronounced inflammatory bowel disorder (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflammation can also interfere with gut healing which leaves us prone to intolerances and allergies. This happens when partially digested particles of food move straight through the gut wall into the bloodstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/yoga-for-stress-and-anxiety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read more in Yoga for Stress and Anxiety: A Complete Guide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About Charlotte Watts:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/charlotte-headshot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7402\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Charlotte Watts (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlottewattshealth.com\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Watts<\/a> is a Senior Yoga Teacher with a love of explorative, compassionate and somatic yoga practices. Her influences include Qi Gong and Feldenkrais. Charlotte is the author of Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health (Singing Dragon 2018). She is also an award-winning nutritionist. Charlotte has practiced since 2000 and specialises in stress-related and fatigue conditions and burnout, and digestive issues. Charlotte teaches modules for Teaching Yoga for Stress and Burnout; for CFS\/ME and for Digestive Health for Yogacampus and on the Yoga Therapy course for The Minded Institute. <\/em><br><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb_wrap\"><a class=\"fb_link\" onclick=\"fbs_click('https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/digestive-health-yoga','');return false;\" href=\"#\">Send to Facebook<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoga teacher, Charlotte Watts explores the relationship between our digestive health and wellbeing in a blog series. Read on to find out how yoga can help us understand how we hold tension in the gut. 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