3 Tools for Building Resilience and Healing Through Yoga
Yoga and mindfulness tools can build resilience and help you heal from past trauma
With regular practice, these tools can help you
- Recognize the physical sensations you feel when triggered by an experience
- Become aware of your stress response: Fight, Flight, or Freeze
- Restore balance in your nervous system to cope with your body's response
- Choose how to respond appropriately in any circumstance
This is called resilience.
Let's explore 3 yoga tools for building resilience
Breath - awareness of the breath, taking deep intentional breaths
Grounding - present moment awareness
Affirmation - I am safe
Awareness of Breath
Observe - recognize that you are breathing, notice the qualities of the breath
Feel - feel the breath in the body, where do you feel it, is it fast or slow, deep or shallow
Notice - not any sensations or changes in the breath
Present Moment Grounding Practice
Breathe - become aware of the breath in the body
Feel - notice the physical sensations in the body, the feeling of the air on your skin, the temperature of the air, your clothes on your body, the ground underneath you.
Listen - notice the sounds around you, far away, close to you, inside your own body
Affirmation
This is a positive, present tense statement that we want to be true in our life.
This affirmation reminds us that we are here now, that we have everything that we need in this moment, and that right here and right now, we are safe.
We repeat this affirmation often with emphasis and feeling, as if it were already true.
Closing our eyes, a few deep breaths, and repeat silently in your own mind. Believe that it is true.
Right here and right now, I have everything I need and I am safe.
Yoga and Meditation can help us recognize that in the present moment, we have everything we need and we are safe.
In this guided meditation practice we put these three tools together in a Resilience Building Meditation. I hope you enjoy this practice.
Hi there! I'm Ali.
Difficult, manipulative and codependent relationships create chronic, toxic stress and anxiety that can affect you mentally, emotionally and even physically.
Using the tools and practices of yoga, I can help you rebalance the stress response in your body so you can let go of that anxiety and stress and move forward with clarity and courage.
As a Yoga Therapist I have more than 800 hours of training in trauma-informed care, rebalancing the nervous system, healing emotional and physical trauma, healing from post traumatic stress and healing childhood trauma.
I've been where you are. I know these tools can help. I have used these tools in my own healing journey and I know how important they are for finding clarity and learning to love and trust yourself again.
I would love to chat with you to see how I can help you on your journey. Let's schedule a quick discovery call to see if we're a good fit.
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