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Tag: blood flow and inversions

Do yoga inversions reverse the flow of blood?

By joemillerJuly 19, 2014October 12, 2017 Categories: Anatomy, Anatomy answers, Asana, Health, Inversions, Physiology Tags: blood flow and inversions, blood flow and yoga, yoga and circulatory system, yoga inversions, yoga physiology 2 Comments

Do yoga inversions reverse the flow of blood? Although yoga teachers sometimes say this, the answer is no. The blood in your body only flows in one direction. From your heart’s left ventricle, it’s pumped through a network of arteries to the capillary beds that surround the cells of your body. That’s where your cells take…

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