a breathing practice to find our center in disorienting times
This season has already brought about many challenges, with escalating violence, trauma, and weather catastrophes all over the world. Whether we are personally experiencing or witnessing these heartbreaking events, we’ve are all processing these emergencies on a regular basis.
We may lose our center, but our practice is here to help us come home to ourselves.
In order to show up for what needs to happen, we get grounded initially. We focus, and gather our energy, clarity, and inner resources. We work on building a container, not only to take action but to hold the entire experience, even the tough emotional pieces.
On a cyclical level, as we journey into autumn, it is a season of breaking down and release; even our landscape is “letting go” in service of a rebuilding process that will take place in the spring.
This season of release comes with a heightened emotional state. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, and even sad, in these times. And it’s natural to feel scattered, ungrounded, vulnerable, tense, or anxious.
No matter which way you lean, it can be challenging to maintain a sense of stability and balance right now, while also being present with what is happening.
nurture your nervous system this autumn
We could all use a few minutes to gather our energy and attention, hold ourselves close, and expand our resources to flow forward — in whatever way we need to right now.
This classic breathing meditation will support us in cultivating focus, so we can bring our minds home to our bodies while helping us to arrive in the present, moment-to-moment, ever-changing new now. You can try it below.
a breathing practice to hold yourself close & let yourself flow
NEW PRACTICE SERIES BEGINS ON NOVEMBER 10
THE ANATOMY OF REST & DIGEST:
CORE PRACTICES FOR RESTORATION
Research shows that mind-body practices, such as yoga and meditation, can work through the brain-gut axis to improve GI function and initiate a state of neurological relaxation—rest and digest.
Join us for a practice series to take a deep dive into the “anatomy” of rest and digest and work with stress and relaxation through practices that focus on the psoas, diaphragm, and vagus nerve.
In this series, we’ll explore how well-being is not only a top down (brain to body) game, but more importantly a process we can initiate from the bottom up (body to brain). We’ll cover basic anatomy, theory, and philosophy, as well as flow through slow mindful movement, breathing practices, awareness tools, as well as extended restorative poses.
We’ll learn how releasing gut and overall bodily tension—through practices that support a supple psoas, free flowing diaphragm, and toned vagus nerve—all help to decrease the body's stress response by dampening the sympathetic nervous system and enhancing the parasympathetic response.
Plus, you’ll learn how alignment affects breathing, and how breathing impacts overall well-being, including the nervous system and all of the systems that influence health and healing.
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plus, the practices will pair with the FREE friday meditation series