15 Min Savasana (Meditation)

In this video you will practice savasana, a kind of meditation. Savasana is the final resting pose at the end of almost every yoga practice. This complete stillness in mind and body is the goal of savasana, which for most people makes it both the easiest pose physically, and the most challenging pose mentally and/or emotionally. A lot happens in our bodies during savasana, despite (and because of) our stillness. Savasana offers the body rest after a yoga practice. It is a time when our musculo-skeletal and nervous systems integrate the practice we just finished; a time when the fight-flight-or-freeze states that typify the majority of our daily lives take a back seat and the rest-and-digest mechanisms in our parasympathetic nervous systems take the driver’s seat; a time when our digestive and immune systems function best and a time when our minds become more calm and clear.