Yoga Therapy for Diabetes

Explore how glucose from carbohydrates enters the bloodstream, is unlocked by insulin to fuel cells, is stored for later, and how glucagon maintains blood sugar during fasting, including diabetes implications.

Examine diabetes from a medical perspective, including insulin timing and resistance, and learn how yoga therapy readjusts the internal environment to address root causes and support the body's healing.

Explore the yogic view of diabetes through three doshas: water, bitter, and cafe, and how yoga therapy balances them to improve digestion and cellular metabolism.

Explore the RDEx formula of well-being—rest, detox and diet, and exercise—as a yoga-based approach to diabetes that emphasizes sleep, breathing, meditation, and active asana practice.

Delivers diabetes-focused lifestyle and diet guidance centered on six tastes. Emphasizes bitter, pungent, and astringent foods, hot water, and regular, lighter meals.

Explore four pranayama practices: kapalaba cleansing, alternate-nostril breathing via nadisodhana, abdominal-diaphragm cleansing, and ramati humming, to balance the nervous system for diabetes therapy, with safety cautions.

Practice a comprehensive asana sequence with breath awareness, warmups, twists, sun salutations, standing and floor postures, then camel pose and deep relaxation in shavasana.

Practice a sample meditation using repetition of a mantra (japa) to realize supreme consciousness. Synchronize the mantra with breath at the throat, expand awareness from the body to the surroundings.