This week is going to be amazing!!
I really want everyone to try this one out, no matter where you are in your movement journey - everyone will benefit and everyone will feel something with this class!!
We tend to not really talk that much about the lymphatic system unless we suffer from Lymphedema - but OMG this system is so important for our health, body, movement, breath, organs, and has a direct relationship to many of our systems (cardio, immune, etc...).
For the sake of keeping this complex, magical system some what simple I have only listed a few facts.
DID YOU KNOW THAT OUR LYMPHATIC SYSTEM....
- functions as the garbage disposal of our body, therefore removes the waste out of our body?
- apart of your immune system - guards the passages into the body against intrusion of destructive substances?
- consists of approximately 15 litres of clear fluid (made up of 90% water) that bathes all of the tissues in your body? Ideally 3 litres of this fluid should be replenished daily making water drinking all the more important!
- is directly related to gut health? If you have a gut problem you have a lymph problem, if you have a lymph problem you have a gut problem. Your gut equals 70% of your immune system function.
- moves and flows via muscle activity & breathing (diaphragm)? Another reason why breath work and movement is so important!
- is a continuous one way loop that if given too much pressure will affect the opening of its valves and cause back flow?
- can create chronic muscle tension, pain, brain fog, swelling, cardiovascular issues, chronic disease if it's not operating as it should? For example: chronically tight calves, because our calves act a passive pump for our lymphatic system.
- and so much more.....
So if we stimulate and move our lymphatic system we can have a direct affect on all of the above and beyond and you'll feel the affects instantly! So grab your toothbrush and follow along! This is how we 'brush' our lymphatic system into moving all the waste products out of our systems!!
Share, share, share what you discovered with this magical treatment for you body!