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Using Essenital Oils to enhance Yoga and Meditation

Essential Oils are a great tool for deepening your meditation or yoga practice. One of the ways to help you enter a meditative state is to use essential oils that bring focus, clarity, relaxation and spiritual connection.

Because of their thousands of benefits, essential oils are able to stimulate deep breathing, therefore improving aspects of your yoga practice. The practice of yoga includes holding postures (asanas) and observing life force energy (prana) in the body to strengthen the connection we have to the energy flow in our bodies. Essential oils are known to aid in this process, and further support the practice of yoga through aromatherapy.

Both meditation and essential oils help to stimulate the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. When paired together they do wonders for managing emotional wellness and releasing negative thoughts and feelings. The more these tools are used, and in conjunction with each other, the quicker we can stimulate the relaxation response when we find ourselves in a stressful situation.

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