What yoga does to me

Today, I had really intense shift at work, I work as a support worker for people with learning disabilities. Love my job, always wanted to do it.

When I feel really intense and feel stressed, I feel around my head (top head) and my shoulders and back start to tense up. Today, I noticed ,within this intensity, there were release moments, even a just 1 second. What I noticed myself doing was that I was breathing out every time I got these moments. For instance, when I sat down on a chair in the canteen, I felt release and I breathed out. As soon as our clients calling my name and asking for my attention, the intensity increased. 

It was just a bit like my yoga classes, sequences my teacher does. Almost as if I could hear her saying "enjoy the release..." especially after a plank sequence or warrior sequence, finish with 3 leg down dog or go onto child pose, really feel the release and really nice. It was a bit like that. I spoke to her this afternoon about it, when I attended her 12 step yoga.

Anyway, all in all, I felt like I had really good shift and enjoyed every moments despite of hard, challenging day. Then I remembered this morning's early practise....

I went to my early yoga class this morning (starts 6:30am). At the end, on savasana, I went to deep again, I was tripping. I started to see images and I saw me doing this shift already today, and feeling really fantastic thinking "I really had a good shift".

That was exactly how I felt after my shift. 

When I came out from savasana, I felt a bit confused, I thought I finished this shift, but I hadn't... What happened? 

Then question....

What does yoga do to our brain? I know it produces brain chemicals like GABA, endorphin, dopamine etc, what else? I can search on Internet for hours and hours (that's what I do with youtube...) however, I'm not going to do that. To be honest I can't be bothered. Shall I get really lazy and get Marcus (my boyfriend) to search it for me?

I think just leave it for now...... and have a mug of mate tea.... 

Let's watch youtube in a meantime.