Yoga For Healthy Aging ~ Understanding Vagal Tone (Part 1 &2)

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There’s been a lot of talk lately about vagal tone and how yoga can help to maintain healthy vagus nerve function, in effect providing “high vagal tone.” (That’s a good thing.) It basically means that the body and brain function more resiliently under stress. It can even reduce allostatic load, which is the amount of stress accumulated over time.
If the nerve is displaced, or if there is extra pressure on it (the image above is excluding the sternocleidomastoid  and scalenes, powerful muscles in the neck that a displaced nerve could get pressed into or crushed between) issues could develop further on down the line of this wandering nerve, such as difficulties with digestion or with regulating heart rate, or even lack of resiliency under stress.

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