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JASMINE KALOUDIS, YOGA INSTRUCTOR In some poses you can start to feel the relief
within five or 10 minutes. Well there’s a meditation aspect to most
yoga classes and so having exercises that just help to
center and ground, getting in touch with their breath, getting people aware of their fears
and anxieties. And if they are feeling scared
and using their breath, letting that go. So the more
awareness you have over any negative emotions, the more you can use those kinds of tools
to help release them and become more detached
about them. To have a more sustained feeling of
relief. Having a regular practice that’s just a little bit every day, 15 or 20 minutes
is a lot better than just having one two-hour class once a
week. And so I like to give a lot of takeaways for
how they can sustain the peace and tranquility that they’ve gained from class and continue
it on a daily basis. One of my favorites is for insomnia
and fatigue and feeling kind of edgy is "legs up
the wall." So you’re just laying down on the floor or in your bed and you just put
your legs up on the wall and resting. There’s no muscular
effort involved and that’s a great pose to do at the
end of a day, not at the beginning because it’s so incredibly calming and centering.
And there is also breathing that you can do, like putting
your hand over your belly. Breathing into your hand,
letting it go, breathing in. So practicing those kind of moves in class and they can
do those anywhere. They can do those in the car, at
the office, at home in bed. Having just the practice like an hour and
a half where you’re just focused on your breath and just
on your reactions to what’s going on inside of your own body and taking those moments
just to honor yourself can be an incredible luxury
and very therapeutic and healing on a kinesthetic level and on an emotional level as well.
4wholeness.com Page 1 of 1 October 4, 2011 – Jasmine Kaloudis, Yoga Instructor