Circadian rhythms - Morning Yoga, Evening Yoga
plus an interview with the author, Janita Stenhouse“There exists in the centre of your brain a tiny pea-sized gland, called the
pineal gland simply because it looks rather like a tiny pine cone. At birth it can weigh up to 40 grams, but it begins to atrophy after we reach 12 years, and with age tends to calcify (Swami Anandakapila Sarawati likes to joke that we really do have rocks in our heads!)
This pineal gland is your biological clock, controlling many natural body-cycles such as your sleep-cycle, body temperature, blood hormone levels, blood pressure, how alert you are and your susceptibility to disease. When
you are in good hwealth, your body rhythms work in synchronicity, like a finely tuned orchestra. The pineal gland is photosensitive, and is literally a ‘third eye’, the Ajna Chakra of Yoga...The article, written by Janita Stenhouse who also writes the regular Yoga & Health feature In the Yogin/i’s garden, continues to describe the function
of pineal gland in more detail and then to give a series of linked exercises. A further article on this subject appears in the June issue. Both articles are reproduced courtesy of the book MORNING YOGA, EVENING YOGA by Janita Stenhouse, published by Polair Publishing. Special reader offer of a free book to each of the first ten callers on 020 8693 0234. Accompanying the article is an interview with the author. | 
