Gentle Yoga for Emotional Wellbeing: A Practice for When You Feel Overwhelmed
Updated: Oct 7
There are days when everything feels a little heavier. You might feel emotionally tender, overwhelmed, or simply tired of holding everything together. Sometimes you don't need to push yourself to feel better. You need somewhere safe and gentle to land.
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This Emotional Wellbeing Yoga practice can meet you when you are:
Feeling emotionally overwhelmed, sensitive or tender
Carrying emotions that feel stuck or difficult to express
Moving through grief, change or an emotionally challenging time
Feeling disconnected from yourself or your body
In need of comfort, nurturing or a sense of being held
Wanting a gentle practice to support emotional wellbeing and self care
We all need to create space to feel
Emotions are not simply thoughts. They are felt throughout the body.
When we push emotions away or don't have space to acknowledge what we're experiencing, that doesn't necessarily mean the experience disappears. When we disconnect from what we are feeling, the body can continue to carry the effects of that experience.
Creating space to feel doesn't mean that we have to analyse, fix or release everything that comes up. Sometimes it simply means slowing down enough to notice what is here and allowing ourselves to be with it.
The Energetic Connection
In this practice we also explore emotional experience through the subtle energy system. working with the sacral chakra and emotional body. These rae the energy centre and field traditionally associated with feeling, emotions, creativity, sensuality and flow.
We'll also connect with the heart centre, bringing an intention of compassion and self connection to the emotional experience.
Give yourself permission to move slowly, and take only what feels supportive today. You don't need to create an emotional release or make anything happen. Simply notice, breathe and allow the practice to meet you where you are.
Feeling isn't the same as fixing. Allowing isn't the same as forcing.
Sometimes a gentle yoga practice for emotional wellbeing is all you need to create a little more space within yourself. And sometimes having personal support can make a difference when you're moving through a difficult or emotionally challenging time.
I offer Subtle Energy Healing Sessions as a space to slow down, listen to what is present and explore what may be ready to shift, gently and in your own time.
You can also explore more Free Practices to use at home, or A Subtle Energy Reset: Soothe & Restore, a gentle three module course to help you ground, soothe and replenish.
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