Amanda Bryan Therapy

03/17/2026

✌️ spots left

🌕 Full Moon Healing at SoNew Yoga! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve held a full moon healing!

Join us for a sacred evening of restoration under the full moon. Whether you’re seeking stillness, release, or renewal — this is your space.

📅 Tuesday, April 1st

⏰ 6:00 – 7:30 PM

📍 SoNew Yoga, Merrimack

💫 $33 | Space limited to 8 guests

Reserve your spot at the link in bio or visit:
👉 https://www.vagaro.com/sonewyogallc/classes

03/15/2026

Yoga is not only about poses… it’s about how we live. 🧘‍♀️
Discover the 5 Yamas of Yoga for a peaceful and balanced life.

The Yamas of Yoga are the first ethical guidelines of yoga. They teach us how to live with kindness, honesty, and self-control.
Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (truthfulness), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (self-control), and Aparigraha (non-possessiveness) help create harmony in our mind and daily life.
Practicing these principles on and off the mat brings true balance and inner peace. 💖🙏

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Thank you. 🙏🏻❤️

03/14/2026

So excited for this workshop next week with Meg Staples! We will connect with the elements to bring balance and strength into our lives as we allow our creative juices to flow!

Only 3 spots are left!!

03/13/2026

Only one week until Ostara (spring Equinox) when night and day will be equal length, and we finally say goodbye to winter and welcome in the spring.🌸

03/12/2026

🌕 Full Moon Healing at SoNew Yoga! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve held a full moon healing!

Join us for a sacred evening of restoration under the full moon. Whether you’re seeking stillness, release, or renewal — this is your space.

📅 Tuesday, April 1st

⏰ 6:00 – 7:30 PM

📍 SoNew Yoga, Merrimack

💫 $33 | Space limited to 8 guests

Reserve your spot at the link in bio or visit:
👉 https://www.vagaro.com/sonewyogallc/classes

03/11/2026

Putting feelings into words does more than help you reflect. Brain imaging research shows it can shift activity inside emotional circuits.

The amygdala is often described as the brain’s threat detector. It helps you quickly respond to stress and uncertainty. When emotions feel intense or overwhelming, this region can become more active.

Studies using brain scans have found that labeling emotions — even briefly — is associated with reduced amygdala activity and increased engagement of the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex supports planning, reasoning, and self-regulation. In simple terms, writing about emotions appears to shift processing from automatic emotional reactivity toward more deliberate control.

Expressive writing research, including randomized controlled trials, suggests that structured emotional writing can reduce rumination and improve psychological well-being over time. When experiences are translated into language, the brain organizes them differently. What felt chaotic becomes structured, stored, and easier to reflect on.

This does not mean writing erases stress. It means the act of labeling feelings recruits regulatory networks that help the brain process emotional information more efficiently.

Even brief writing sessions have been linked to measurable changes in emotional processing patterns.

Source: Frontiers in Psychology; Mindfulness (Springer)

Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personal concerns.

03/10/2026

When you engage in gratitude, mindfulness, acts of kindness or simply focusing on positive experiences, your brain immediately releases a “happiness trifecta” of neurotransmitters:

▶️Dopamine: The “reward” chemical. Gratitude and acts of kindness activate the brain’s reward center (nucleus accumbens), creating a “helper’s high” that motivates you to repeat the behavior.
▶️Serotonin: The “mood stabilizer”. Mindfulness and focusing on the positive boost serotonins, which enhances feelings of calm, focus and emotional balance.
▶️Oxytocin: The “bonding hormone”. Acts of kindness and social connection triggers oxytocin which lowers blood pressure and increases trust and empathy.

The brain follows a “use it or lose it” principle. Repeatedly “switching on” these states leads to physical changes. Just like a physical muscle, the more you practice gratitude, the thicker and more efficient those neural circuits become. Consistent mindfulness has been shown to reduce the size and reactivity of the amygdala, the brain’s alarm system, making you less reactive to stress. These practices also strengthen the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for emotional regulation and rational decision making.

Humans are evolutionarily hardwired with a negativity bias - an instinct to prioritize threats over rewards for survival. Intentionally focusing on positive experiences acts as a “counter-vote” to this bias. Over time, this trains the brain’s Reticular Activating System (RAS)- a filter in the brain stem- to prioritize noticing opportunities and “wins” instead of just scanning for dangers.

Furthermore, these practices directly combat the physical damage caused by stress. Gratitude and mindfulness can lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol by up to 23%. They also trigger the “rest and digest” system, which lowers heart rate and promotes a baseline state of relaxation rather than “fight or flight”.

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03/10/2026

Scientists uncover a mysterious state existing between life and death

Researchers made a discovery that could fundamentally change how we understand life itself. Scientists have identified a third state of being that exists between life and death, revealing that our cells may possess a form of consciousness previously thought impossible.

Traditionally, biology recognises two states: life, where cells are active and performing vital functions, and death, where cellular activity ceases. But new experiments suggest there is a transitional state in which cells are neither fully alive nor entirely dead. In this liminal phase, cells continue to respond to their environment, communicate with neighbouring cells, and exhibit behaviours that hint at awareness on a microscopic scale.

The research involved observing stressed or damaged cells under extreme conditions. Scientists noted patterns of decision-making at the cellular level, where cells appeared to “choose” survival pathways or trigger self-destruction. These behaviours are strikingly similar to a primitive form of consciousness, implying that life is more complex and responsive than previously imagined.

The implications are profound. If cells can process information and respond intelligently even in precarious conditions, it could revolutionise medicine, ageing research, and our understanding of consciousness itself. Treatments for diseases, organ preservation, and even approaches to life support could benefit from recognising and leveraging this intermediate cellular state.

This discovery challenges old assumptions about the rigid boundary between life and death. It reminds us that life may be a spectrum rather than a binary condition, and that even the smallest units of our bodies might possess awareness in ways science is only beginning to understand.

03/07/2026

LAST CALL!! ☝️ Spot left and registration closes Sunday!!!
Now’s your chance! 👉 https://www.vagaro.com/sonewyogallc/classes

🌿 With our Spring Equinox retreat, The Gathering (March 20-22), right around the corner, we’re preparing to shake off the winter stillness and align with the vibrant energy of spring.

But what happens after the retreat? 🧐

If you’ve ever walked away from a healing session wishing you could tap into that peace on your own, this is for you.

I have a few spots left for my Reiki I Training on April 11-12. This is a deep dive into the fundamentals of energy healing where you’ll learn:

• The history and lineage of Reiki.
• How to scan and feel energy fields.
• Hands-on techniques to heal yourself and others.
The Details:
• When: April 11 & 12 (Full days)
• Where: SoNew Yoga
• The Result: You’ll leave as a certified Level I Practitioner, ready to use this gift for life.
Spring is for planting seeds. Let this be the one that grows your intuition. 🌿

👉 https://www.amandabryantherapy.com

03/07/2026

03/06/2026

Only 2 weeks until Ostara, which is on March 20th, it is celebrated on the Spring Equinox, when both night and day are at equal length. A time of great balance between light and dark.

The winter, harsh and long is now fading. The Earth is waking from her frozen slumber and it’s time to rejoice in life, warmth and a renewal of the spirit. Come celebrate and worship as we give birth to all things fresh and new. Let us reconnect with family, loved ones and friends, old and new as we turn the Great Wheel to Ostara.

On Ostara night and day stand in perfect balance, but after Ostara light will take over dark. Ostara is a fertility festival, celebrating the birth of Spring and the reawakening of life from the earth. The energies of nature subtly shift from the sluggishness of Winter to the exuberant expansion of Spring. It is a time of great fertility, new growth, and new born animals. The Goddess blankets the earth with fertility as she bursts forth from her winter sleep. The young God stretches and grows to maturity as he walks the greening fields and delights in the abundance of nature.

Traditionally, Ostara is a time for collecting wildflowers, walking in nature’s beauty, planting seeds and cultivating herb gardens. This is the time to free yourself from anything in the past that is holding you back. At this time, we think of renewing ourselves. We renew our thoughts, our dreams and our aspirations.

This is an excellent time of year to begin everything new or to completely revitalize something. This is also an excellent month for prosperity rituals or rituals that have anything to do with growth. Fill your altars with any spring time flowers and seeds, coloured and painted eggs, rabbit and hare images and statues and candles of white, yellow, green, light blue, orange and gold. Any spring herbs you have such as lavender, jasmine, patchouli, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, tarragon or sunflower seeds. Use any spring crystals you may have such as clear quartz, rose quartz, agate, lapis lazuli, amazonite, sunstone, green aventurine, peridot and garnet.

The name for this Sabbat actually comes from that of the Teutonic lunar Goddess Ostara or Eostre as she is sometimes known. Her chief symbols were the rabbit or hare that represents fertility, and the egg which represents new life and rebirth. This is where the customs of “Easter Eggs” and the “Easter Bunny” originated.

03/05/2026

Join me for a full moon healing in April!!

https://www.amandabryantherapy.com/products/p/full-moon-healing-circle-1

Upcoming Full Moons.

April 2nd will be the Full Pink Moon.

May 1st will be the Full Flower Moon

May 31st will be the Full Blue Moon. A Blue Moon occurs when there are 2 Full Moons in the same month.