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Finally, with the help of our body manual we could learn how to control our nervous system and realize the incredible importance of our brain and spinal cord.

As you will see from Figure 1, ‘The chiropractor’s view of the spine’, the 31 pairs of spinal nerves exit from the spinal cord supplying every part of the body. Tension around these nerves weakens the area they supply, with the resulting problems indicated. By performing your yoga stretches daily and learning to relax, you will relieve the tension from the roots of these nerves and encourage their correct functioning. Daily relaxation is of prime importance – during relaxation the mind calms and pressure on the spinal nerves is released.

The calming effect of yoga movements also balances the involuntary symptoms of the fight-or-flight reaction, calming and cooling the body and thus reducing the adverse effects of chronic stress.