Inversion Therapy
Hanging upside down can help your posture, circulation and lymphatic drainage, and also refresh your brain.
It’s called inversion therapy - a modern name for the ancient and highly useful practice of hanging upside down. Regularly practiced, inversion can make you look and feel terrific. It is good for the skin, the thyroid, the brain, the circulation and the posture. It benefits the spine, hips, knees and ankle-joints and can be useful for improving muscle tone and for strengthening the spine. It improves the circulation of the blood and the drainage of the lymphatic system, can lift chronic areas of tension and muscle fatigue and even eliminate blocked sinuses!
Reverse gravity and stay young.
When you turn gravity on its head you reverse the pressure of blood-flow throughout your body. Fresh oxygenated blood pours into the brain, eyes and ears and facial skin while the legs, which tend to accumulate liquid as a result of our normal upright posture, are emptied. The relief this offers to the lower limbs can be quite remarkable in anyone who suffers even the slightest inclination towards varicose veins. It can also improve the health and look of skin and muscles thanks to the stimulating effect it has on your body’s lymphatic system.
Brain fuel
Hanging upside down increases the flow of fresh blood through the brain’s cells, thereby stimulating them. This acts as a kind of tonic to the mind, particularly in people who tire easily. Five minutes of flooding your brain with rich, oxygenated blood while you are stretched out in a position of complete relaxation, is worth several hours of unwinding and leaves you feeling renewed, refreshed and clearheaded.
Back therapy par excellence
Inversion is currently most widely used medically in the treatment of back problems. It offers a gravity-controlled means of traction which relieves pressure on protruding inter-vertebral discs and compressed nerve roots. This, coupled with the stimulation to circulation and lymphatic drainage and its usefulness in eliminating long-term areas of tension in the body, means that it can be enormously helpful in the treatment of low back pain.
Meanwhile, for the well, the athlete, and the woman or man intent upon preserving youthful functioning and good looks, it offers real help. Besides blooming skin and superb body realignment, inversion brings a feeling of freedom and well-being. And the longer you practice the better it makes you look and feel.
Practitioner:
Anne Lammar
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