A typical therapeutic session doesn’t warrant many headstands or such poses, so on my own, this is my primary practice. Inversions come in many forms: standing forward fold, child’s pose, down dog, legs up a wall, forward bend in a chair, etc. The benefits of inversions are many as we flip our world upside down, send blood and nutrients to our brain and heart, build the strength to hold us in the position, and see things from a different perspective. When we come right side up, things take on a new form and we can perhaps move forward with more clarity and balance. 👈🏼 Hence why we do all of this in the first place... .
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Stress is linked to the top 6 causes of death (Cleveland Clinic). The most simplest of healthy activities we can do is rest and sleep. 👉🏼Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga is essentially adult nap time and we as a society need it so badly. These practices not only reduce stress, they retrain the nervous system. The slow transitions and long, easy holds of Restorative Yoga plus the deep, guided meditative “sleep” of Yoga Nidra, offers an opportunity for the brain to reprogram itself with and into rest, ie the parasympathetic nervous system. We are dying from stress and stress related illnesses and injuries and constantly bombarded by adverts, something, someone trying to grab our attention. We need to reset. .
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Join me anywhere and anytime with my Yoga Nidra guided meditations on @itunes or @amazon, search for Audrey DeLong Yoga Nidra Volume 1, or join me in Redding on Thursday nights at 7:00pm for an in person, live Nidra and Restorative Yoga practice at @balance.yogacenter We can find health together. It’s so much more fun that way. 🥰
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Yoga for Therapy is SO different than a regular yoga class. A regular yoga class uses poses and breath and meditation in a specific style to build strength and awareness, considering the person and his/her abilities second. There’s a particular formulaic yoga exercise pattern and the person molds to this style. Yoga for Therapy however, considers the person first: his/her abilities, limitations, history, goals, surgeries, injuries, background, beliefs, experience, comfort, etc. and uses ANY breath work style, meditation, yoga pose or no yoga poses at all(!!), to help a person find wholeness. In Yoga for Therapy, there are no rules, no set patterns. Although from one session to the next, it may be very similar, because of a person’s goals and limitations, it can vary drastically from person to person what a session looks like. Yoga for Therapy is about wholeness, it’s about healing, it’s about uniting the parts of ourselves that are fragmented: be that broken bones, or mind/body, for cancer recovery, or high blood pressure, or anxiety, or depression, etc. I think of a regular yoga class as Yang in nature: it’s regimented and specific (which isn’t bad!!), whereas Yoga for Therapy is Yin in nature: there are no rules, we’re using the art of yoga to serve you personally. ☯️ .
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Learn more via the link in my profile and/or let me know if you want to set up your own Yoga for Therapy session(s), individually, or for your group. 💖
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