Yoga Bowl Events - Rest & Digest

'Rest & Digest' ~ Day Retreat

Yoga Bowl Events is a collaboration between Yoga Teacher, Alice Billerey and Chef, Charlotte Kjaer. 'Rest & Digest' will be a 4 hour day retreat centred around balancing the autonomic nervous system through yoga, meditation and a nutritional plant based lunch.

There are two branches to the autonomic nervous system; The parasympathetic (PSNS), also know as 'rest and digest' which is dominant when we are calm, relaxed and digesting our food. And the sympathetic (SNS), also known as 'fight or flight' which is dominant when we are faced with responding to danger or stress. When these systems are balanced (homeostasis) we are able to fluctuate between the two systems as and when required in order to respond accordingly to our environment. For example the SNS is dominate when we need to run for the bus, increasing our heart rate to pump blood to the…