Yoga for Grief Relief: Simple Practices for Transforming Your Grieving Mind and Body

Yoga for Grief Relief: Simple Practices for Transforming Your Grieving Mind and Body

Antonio Sausys MA CMT RYT

Language: English

Pages: 184

ISBN: 1608828182

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


If you’ve experienced loss, you may feel intense emotional or even physical pain. In fact, it’s not uncommon for grieving people to experience depression, anxiety, fatigue, and a variety of other physical, mental, and spiritual symptoms. If you’ve tried other ways to move beyond your loss but have yet to find relief, you may be surprised to discover the transformative effects of yoga.

Yoga for Grief Relief combines over 100 illustrations of gentle yogic poses and the power of psychophysiology and neuroscience to help you recapture a true sense of well-being. You’ll also find breathing exercises, cleansing techniques, and self-relaxation tips to help you work through your loss and begin on the journey to self-knowledge and re-identification. At its core, yoga is about accepting change. If you are open to viewing your loss as an opportunity for growth, this book will help transform your grief with gentle clarity and awareness.

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bodies and how they affect us emotionally, the effects of our yoga practice are deepened. Exploring our knowledge of the chakra system leads to an efficient and helpful way to understand the mind-body connection and its relationship to the varying symptoms of grief. The Heart Chakra: A Starting Point for Grief Although all chakras are involved during the grieving process, the heart chakra is the primary one when talking about grief. Because emotional bonding develops there, anahata is an

emotional waves and inherent fluctuations in the bereavement process, I suggest maintaining an attitude of detachment toward the immediate results of practice. Some days your practice will be intense; on others it may be milder. Some days you will feel content after practicing; other days your practice might take you to places that feel less than satisfying. The deeper benefits will come as a result of establishing a regular practice. Keep in mind that in the best-case scenario, a serious,

emerge. Lyn Prashant affirms that “we don’t get over our losses, we transform our relationship to them,” and I agree with her one hundred percent. Grief is a powerful source of information about who we are, when we dare to look. There is a natural progression from one to the other, and if we are able to transform our relationship to grief in a way that results in improved self-knowledge, then we can establish a new identity. We identify ourselves through the persons and things we are attached

physical ones. The exercises contained in the program can help take care of the first part of the process by bringing the symptoms to a level of relative control. By practicing breath work, you become more present and aware and can help reestablish the normal rhythms of the body, finding ways of controlling your mental states and ultimately your new reality. Practicing the Energy Flow Series assures the proper circulation of life force, avoiding blockages and facilitating free movement of

its structure and function in response to experience, training, and practice. In the twentieth century, our brains were thought to develop within a critical period during early childhood, and to then remain relatively immutable. This thinking meant that once we passed the critical period of development we were basically stuck in those ways, forever hardwired, fixed in form and function. This belief lowered expectations about the value of rehabilitation for those who had suffered brain injury from

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