How Yoga Affects Your Nervous System - What Every Woman Should Know

ou've felt it before.
That moment after yoga when something in you has settled — not just physically but somewhere deeper. Something that's hard to name but impossible to ignore.

That's your nervous system. And once you understand what yoga is actually doing to it you'll never think about your practice the same way again.

Here's the short version — your nervous system is your body's alarm system. For many women it gets stuck in fight or flight and stays there. Anxious. Scanning. Unable to fully come down even when nothing is actually wrong.

You cannot think your way out of that.
But you can move your way out of it. Breathe your way out of it. Rest your way out of it.

That's what slow somatic yoga actually does — it speaks your nervous system's language and signals safety in a way that insight alone never could.

I break down exactly how in this video.

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About Keri Marino:
Keri is a C-IAYT certified somatic yoga therapist of 17 years and founder of The Nourished Woman — yoga therapy and mental health support for women ready to feel wildly free.