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Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Yoga's Resilience | Retraining Your Nervous System

17 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment Mona Sharma explains how a specific lineage of Sivananda yoga uses a deliberate sequence of holding a pose followed immediately by Savasana (deep relaxation). This alternating pattern trains the practitioner’s nervous system to experience stress (the pose) and then quickly return to a state of calm (Savasana), mirroring the fight‑or‑flight response and its resolution. By repeatedly cycling through tension and relaxation on the mat, the mind and body learn to navigate stressful moments without resistance, building resilience that can be carried into everyday life.

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November 17, 2025

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So we're ultimately retraining our nervous system on how to build that resilience of moving into fight or flight. Right? But the really cool thing about this lineage of yoga that I grew up with at the Sivanandashram was after every single pose that you hold, you're holding it, you move into Savasana. So hold the pose, move into Shavasana, hold the pose, move into the Shavasana. And it's training your mind and your body to move through these periods of stress where it's like, okay, I want to get out of this. The mental resistance that comes with us that we all experience off the mat, and then we go into relaxation. So we're ultimately retraining our nervous system on how to build that resilience of moving into fight orf flight. Right. Or something stressful, then back into relaxation. It's retraining, and we take that back into the world.