Wellness Wednesday- Spring Cleaning

If you’ve heard much of my content, you know I believe whole heartedly that our entire body is connected. There is now an abundance of evidence that a lot more is communicated from our literal gut up to the brain than from the brain down. We have so much power over what we think and how we feel yet little awareness of that.

Yin yoga has been transformative for me personally related to calming my mind and slowing me down. 

In this crazy fast-faced, microwave world, we will have to take intentional action to control the battlefields of our minds (great book by the way), get off our devices and reign in our thoughts. 

There is power in taking control of our actual thoughts, but when we heal our nervous system, it does so much more than that. It literally removes roots of negativity, pain, wounds that significantly skew the lenses we experience life through.

There are so many amazing techniques to positively influence our nervous system so I’m going to mention a few here but know there are many more! I will link videos or websites or events for more info when possible.  

• Hum and swallow – syncs the cranial nerves, vibrates the vagus nerve and calms the system
• Box breathing – I’ve linked a 5 minute example of 5 count box breathing – tons more on Youtube or the Insight Timer app so find one you love.
• Somatic breathwork – I personally see Kate Shipp for guidance with this but there are tons of resources, classes, and even some of our own yoga classes at Healing Space Yoga Studio
• TRE – Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises. I’ve always described this as a bridge between myofascial release work and yoga where a sequence of movements facilitate some shaking that can lead into a natural thawing of the freeze response that so many of us have stuck in our systems. This can be done at home so click HERE to view that or click the following  link for more info on our upcoming TRE workshop with Chad McLean on April 5th if you prefer some education and support!