Diabetes

When talking about diabetes, Aadil emphasised again something that he had been stating throughout the training and that is that the body seeks homeostasis, or to be balanced.

We discussed what kind of asana practice would be beneficial for a pre-diabetic or a diabetic student and went through a series of postures aim of which was to ‘squeeze’ and ‘release’ the pancreas and therefore stimulate it.  We also learnt about the asanas which are meant to strengthen the pancreas.  Some of those postures and exercises were very vigorous, whilst some were restorative.

Aadil also gave us a lot of advice on nutrition, including herbal supplements such as stevia, bitter gourd and many more.

He also said that a student should monitor his levels of insulin frequently if doing yoga therapy, because it is very likely that the pancreas will start producing more of it as a result of yoga.  In that case, the insulin medication has to be adjusted accordingly.

This work is applicable both to type 1 and type 2 diabetes.