{"id":15807,"date":"2016-10-24T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2016-10-25T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:27:10","slug":"strengthening-the-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/healthy-living\/strengthening-the-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening the Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3124.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3124\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3124.jpg 338w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3124-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>Feels good as you get into trikonasana, you hear the babbling brook water flowing down this creek &#8211; fresh forest air saturating every cell in my revived body &#8230; ahhhh, so yummy.  Block prop? Why, every creation of nature offered to serve as our props &#8211; all the support you need, you find right here amongst the trees, at the base of majestic mountain.  Interesting thing about this Trikonasana &#8211; with the guidance of great teacher, Judith, <a href=\"http:\/\/anandababy.exblog.jp\/26285158\/\">I now can go all the way<\/a> with my hands beyond the ankle to the floor (SAFELY), my torso, more parallel to the ground &#8211; we change milometers at a time; not over night so patience, patience as we practice, practice.  <\/p>\n<p>A yoga sequence around this theme is the protocol homework based on the weekend intensive.  How to strengthen our immune system this season. Of course, Rest comes to mind but what&#8217;s beyond dealing with the rest-deficit? What&#8217;s beyond resting and restoring? Yes, need for strengthening.  That&#8217;s the aim in this particular sequence&#8230; given what we learned the past weekend &#8211; information overload &#8211;<br \/>\nWas wracking my brains out to come up with but how timely.  Ironic and yest not so ironic &#8211; more yes, timely &#8211; I came down with a minor cold so &#8230;(too much driving -sitting &#8211; drove 7 hours within 2 days) my immune system must be compromised, lol.<br \/>\nComing up with Asana sequence, Pranayama identification; and centering practice to share with peers.<br \/>\nThen next month is my turn yet again to share my CASE STUDY. (stress?  good kind of stress, yes&#8230;) Sharing and learning so I can share more with others later on.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of timely &#8211; it is timely as Autumn sequence is all about respiratory system and gut-health. There are so many people I know who outwardly look &#8220;great&#8221; but inwardly feeling not so great and why?  Whether if your BMI is perfect or your weight is perfect and you wear size 4 &#8230; are we really really healthy, mind, body and spirit?  That&#8217;s my purpose &#8211; to know how to get that.  The state of homeostasis with natural means (which by the way is called &#8220;alternative&#8221; medicine &#8211; alternative?  Really???)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9996_small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9996_small\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9996_small.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9996_small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9996_small-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>OMMMMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feels good as you get into trikonasana, you hear the babbling brook water flowing down this creek &#8211; fresh forest air saturating every cell in my revived body &#8230; ahhhh, so yummy. Block prop? Why, every creation of nature offered to serve as our props &#8211; all the support you need, you find right here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15844,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions\/15844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}