08/08/2025
This is gonna be a truly lovely class. Like a gift to yourself.
I’ve called it ‘Stress and Anxiety’ workshop but I could have titled it ‘deep self care’ or ‘nervous system reset’ or ‘dropping into your parasympathetic’ or ‘learning to relax’ or ‘toning the Vagus Nerve’ or many other titles that are different versions of the same thing.
After choosing my top ten tools (some from the yoga tradition, breath work, Chinese tradition, some more recent science based) I started to practice them all every day in prep for the workshop and to see in which order they would work best.
This coincided with me taking a week off the gym as I was experiencing a hormonally driven bout of inflammation and had aches and pain in pretty much every joint. I knew I needed to give my body a rest and not cause any aggravation.
After doing these all of these practices daily and with extra committment, I would describe the experience as ’learning to be kind and to tenderly nourish a deeper part of myself’. I absolutely love them.
For years now I’ve started every yoga class and practice with one of these tools because the research is clear and it makes so much sense to me and while I’ve learnt that these practices have a profound effect on every element of our well being, from being open to experiencing joy to strengthening our bones, from our ability to absorb nutrients to our ability to concentrate, this was the first time I’d experienced it so fully.
Interesting enough, all of my aches and pains have gone, I’ve returned to the gym without any flares ups.
We’re only meant to be in our ‘fight or flight’ mode very occasionally but many of us exist in this state of stress for the majority of the time.
These super easy and simple tools will help you drop into the more peaceful ‘rest and digest’ mode where health, healing and happiness can happen.
Anyone can do them, they take minutes and are free.
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