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1. YOGIC CORRELATION
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Ghantali Mitra Mandal
Yoga Diploma Course - 27

2. CAUSES OF DIGESTIVE DISORDERS
❖ Life Style
❖ High fat diets
❖ High sugar intake
❖ High intake of processed food
❖ Antibiotics
❖ Anti inflammatory drugs
❖ Fried foods
❖ Alcohol
❖ Soda
❖ Smoking
❖ Anxiety
❖ Depression
❖ Stress
❖ And many more

3. Indigestion is psychosomatic disease

4. Of all the digestive organs, the stomach
is the one most often subjected to
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- Stomach and stress
- Exams
- Mental tension, stress and ulcer

5. Ulcer is the classic example of
psychosomatic disease.
• Jealousy to ulcer
• Anger to hyperacidity and dyspepsia
• Greed of obesity
• Frustration to diarrhea, and
• Possessiveness to constipation
• Person hiding emotions to cancer
• Showing more stress to heart disease
• Unfulfilled ambition to arthritis

6. • Non-specific mental stresses are at
the base of many illnesses
• Role of thought on emotion and
emotion on body

7. Body and Mind relationship
Digestive system is the very sensitive mirror
of mind – ANS
There are two parts to the autonomic
nervous system:
• Parasympathetic – It’s like the brakes; slows you
down and relaxes you; it controls all your body
functions that work in a relaxed state
• Sympathetic – It’s like the gas; speeds you up; it
controls everything to do with the “flight or fight”
response

8. Sympathetic Para-sympathetic
Acid. Secretion Reduced Increased
Blood Supply Reduced Increased
Movement Reduced Increased
Digestion Slow-down Faster

9. What is the role of Yoga
- calms mind
- balances emotion
- Harmonize body

10. Yogic management of indigestion
The following practices are specific for digestive disorders
and will restore function rapidly if practiced daily.
• Shatkriyas:
• Asanas: massages muscles and organs
• Pranayama: metabolic process
• Bandhas:
• Relaxation:
• Meditation:
• Diet:
• Fasting:

11. • Dhauti
• Kunjal, Vastra, Danda
• Shankha prakshalana
– one of the most important kriya
• Basti
• Nauli – Uddiyana – Agnisara
• Kapalbhati

12. Dynamic Kriyas
Good for strengthening the abdominal muscles
- Uttanpadasana (raised leg position),
- Chakrapadasana (leg rotation)
- Pada sanchalana (cycling) and
- Naukasana (boat pose)
- Naukachalan, Chakki Chalan, Meru-danda
Vakrasana, massage the abdominal organs,
mobilize the extra fat tissue stored around them

13. Vajrasana Series
- Yoga mudra, Marjarasana, Shashankasana,
Ushtrasana, Shirsasana - help to strengthen the
digestive and endocrine system.
• Dhanurasana, Bhujangasana
• Halasana, Half Plough Pose – uthit dvi padasana
• Pavanamuktasana
• Paschimottanasana
• Sarvangasana
• Trikonasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana, Chakrasana

14. SURYANAMASKAR

15. Pranayama
• Bridge between the body and mind
• Balances the ANS
• Abdominal breathing
• Awareness
• Bhastrika, SuryaBhedana
• Sheetali Shitkari

16. Panch Kosha
• Manomaya – mental body, devotion, bhakti,
surrender
• Pranamaya – energy body, pranic Imbalance,
pranayama, sectional breathing
• Annamaya – made from food, satvik, rajsik,
tamsik, body and mind

17. Panch Prana
Samana : Stomach, liver, pancreas, small intestine
Apana : Defecation, urination, menstruation,
ejaculation, childbirth
Prana : Hunger and thirst
Udana : Vomiting, belching
Vyana : Perceive and taste - blood and lymph,
Assimilation
Cycles of Prana

18. Manipur Chakra
- The home of prana
- Fire of the body
- If fully awaken – can digest anything

19. Mudra and Bandha
- Mood, attitude and perception
- Contracts and tightens certain parts
or organs of the body

20. Lungs 3-5 am Bladder 3-5 pm
Large intestine 5-7 am Kidneys 5-7 pm
Stomach 7-9 am Heating components 7-9 pm
Spleen 9-11 am Metabolic processes 9-11 pm
Heart 11 am-1 pm Gall bladder 11 pm-1am
Small intestine 1-3 pm Liver 1-3 am
Taken from Bihar School of Yoga
the following periods of maximal functioning of the body
organs occur as follows:

21. Relaxation
Relaxation is a state of rest, enjoyment and
physical renewal. Free of danger, muscles
can relax and food can be digested. The
heart can slow down and blood circulation
flows freely to the body's tissues, feeding it
with nutrients and oxygen

22. Relaxation
• Immunity
• Emotional Balance
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Inflammation
• Switch off stress
• Calmness

23. Meditation
• melts away stress and anxiety
• helps in the functioning of the digestive system
• brings about a change in the mindset
• Increased emotional stability
• Decreases muscle tension
• harmonizes our endocrine system
• improves the transport of oxygen to all the
organs or digestive system

24. ANS – governed by limbic area of brain
The smooth muscles of the digestive parts
are involuntary muscles
Major autonomic nerve of the gastro-
intestinal tract (GIT) is the vagus nerve
Gastrointestinal receptors initiate reflexes
and the information is conveyed to the
central nervous system (CNS)

25. The appetite and satiety centers lie in the
hypothalamus
The emotional balance and behavior of the
human beings are also controlled by the
hypothalamic centers

26. Digestion is affected due to one's thinking
style, tense and unsatisfied mind and the
negative approach
In order to maintain mental peace and
balance, a positive approach, contentment
and happiness are required, which can be
achieved through yoga.

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