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27-08-2020
Column: Yoga - BEATING BURNOUT
Column: Yoga - BEATING BURNOUT
As we all know, our Melbournians are in their third week of COVID Stage 4 lockdown. And it’s not fun.
When some of my lovely, rational Victorian students start to sound a little unhinged, you start to worry about their mental health. So, for the Melbourne Stage 4 lock down period I have offered free online yoga to those in the Melbourne area. If you have loved ones that would like to try yoga, for sanity or good health, give them my contact details on my FB page.
And the common theme amongst those suffering under the Stage 4 restrictions is exhaustion. Physically, mentally and emotionally, these are ordinary Australians at the end of their tether.
So why do we get so tired in isolation? Well the most obvious factor is fear, and its toll on your body. Fear causes our sympathetic nervous system to kick into flight-or-flight and we release cortisol. In large supplies cortisol causes fatigue. And ongoing survival mode comes at the expense of our more sophisticated behaviours like our decision-making skills.

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