Yoga For Emotional Stability – The Subtle Body – Classical Chinese Meridians & Emotions
Emotional Health Management
Common health issues of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addiction, and other stress disorders can take a great toll on our emotional stability.
Just think of what happens when you are overworked or rushing from place to place with an overloaded schedule!
Emotional health helps us manage day-to-day stress, maintain calm and productive relationships, change habits that have become less useful, and applying our inner wisdom and creativity. All of these life demands can deeply impact our physical health. Total health depends on a healthy mind as well as a healthy body, so it’s important to take the time to nurture both.
Understanding emotional health means paying attention to our overall happiness and well-being. Emotionally health involves maintaining control of thoughts and feelings. People with good emotional health are resilient in challenges, find ways to express creativity, and understand the importance of social connections. They also recognize the power of spirituality and the value of staying positive.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga is the perfect antidote for anyone who is busy, stressed, exhausted, depleted or feeling disconnected from themselves. Emotions can be affected by Restorative setup.
Anxiety, Depression and Grief are discussed, and how to integrate yoga therapy applications. Eastern/Western views of physical and subtle support,can enhance sequencing of props and poses to heal and balance.
How Does Yoga Affect My Emotions?
Where does emotion sit in your body? What parts of the body feel the emotions of Anxiety, Depression and Grief?
Each emotion will have a feeling of temperature, speed and location in the body. As we become more attuned to where these emotions can sit, the more we can help to heal ourselves and others.
Restorative yoga can help to support anxiety, depression and the experience of grief.
Yoga is effective to treat fatigue, combining movement, rest and stress reduction as it cultivates subtle awareness and activates the parasympathetic nervous system (Rest and Renew response). it can help to treat the deepest level of our beings, and therefore, to also heal
Explore the nuances of setting up Restorative poses as sanctuary for mind, body and spirit. We will concentrate on working with the Chinese Meridian Theory of the Organic and Emotional Body.
Refining awareness of gross and subtle anatomy, working with the physical alignment of the body, as well as listening to the inner spaces and body rhythms, of the world around us and of what we can hear, smell and see.
This Restorative Training looks at Grief, Anxiety and Depression and how to work with Restorative poses. There are subtle differences that can have a great effect. Changing the height, or props in a pose can affect the nervous system to produce a calming or stimulating effect.
Much as the Gunas arise in all aspects of our lives, they arise in the emotional body. The more we balance the Rajasic and Tamasic aspects within us, the more we can bring the body, mind and spirit back to the sweet Sattvic state of yoga.
In this Restorative Training, we refine our awareness of gross and subtle anatomy, working with the physical alignment of the body, as well as listening to the inner spaces and body rhythms, of the world around us and of what we can hear, smell and see.
Learn the scientific and somatic language of the body and apply this knowledge through practical experience.
Seasons and energies are reflected in our bodies and emotions, as microcosm reflect the macrocosm, and for Chinese, seasons are associated with the elements, our emotions, specific internal organs, and certain tastes.
Yin and Yang are in a constantly dynamic relationship with each other, and as one reaches a peak, the seed of the other is born, and begins blooming as the other wanes. Yin nourishes Yang, as Yang motivates Yin.
This is the natural order of things reflected in the dynamic cycle of Yin Yang. The key to understanding this relationship is to see it as animated, in motion, and constantly changing from one to the other. Chinese Medicine recommends cultivating Yang energy in spring and summer, while protecting Yin energy in autumn and winter.
Chinese Medicine sees Nature and its patterns, forms and seasons as part of the natural rhythm of life. We will work to keep our source of vitality invigorated, and look at how the Meridians and Natures Seasons can help us focus inwardly in Restorative Yoga.
Seasons and energies are reflected in our bodies and emotions, as microcosm reflect the macrocosm, and for Chinese, seasons are associated with the elements, our emotions, specific internal organs, and certain tastes.
Yoga & Stress Disorders
Anxiety disorders, including depression, are the most common mental illness in the US affecting 40 million adults18 and older, or 18% of the population.
There are many different treatments for depression, ranging from types of psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and medication to nutrition, diet and alternative therapies, including Therapeutic Yoga.
Yoga for Grief
Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, usually focused on the emotional response to loss, yet it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. Bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to loss.
Yoga for Anxiety
Persistent anxiety interferes with work, concentration or sleep. For some, anxiety can become excessive, and while the person suffering may realize their anxiety is too much,they may have difficulty controlling it and it may negatively affect their life.
Yoga for Depression
Yoga offers a unique approach to depression as it addresses the mental and the physiological factors factors that lead to depression. You help relax the physical systems and begin the process of self-investigation and discovery.
Yoga for Emotional Balance
Anxiety happens as part of life; an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, which can alert us to danger.
The calming and regulating effects of Restorative Yoga can facilitate healing and affect deeper levels of the body and mind.