Living Yoga

Ah, it feels so good to lie in savasana, corpse pose, at the end of a yoga class.  You’re relaxed and when the instructor eventually brings you out of it, she asks you to roll to your right side in a fetal position.  But why the right side and not the left?

This is a common question I’m asked and the only answer I’ve heard thus far is that rolling onto the right side is more relaxing for your body than rolling onto the left (although I did find something that said people with blood pressure irregularities should roll to the left), but after much searching I haven’t been able to find a more detailed, scientific answer than that.

So I’m opening this up to anybody who’s reading this.  Why is it more relaxing to roll onto our right side than on the left?

Many thanks to the person who can answer this.

Thanks to www.sacredonion.org/ for the photo.

A cat lying on the left side after Savasana.