Sue Cheung is a yoga and mindfulness meditation trainer with over a decade of expertise educating at a few of London’s hottest studios. In 2023 Sue certified as an Integrative Change Employee with the Moral Teaching Collective and as an authorized Life Coach with the Life Coach Faculty.
Sue shares 5 poses to scale back overwhelm…
Alternate Nostril Respiration
- Discover a comfy seated place with a steady base and lengthy backbone.
- Utilizing your dominant hand place the index and center finger onto the area between the eyebrow.
- Let your thumb relaxation on one nostril and the ring finger onto the opposite, letting the pinky finger curl in in direction of the palm.
- Take a cycle of breath into each nostrils, then shut the appropriate nostril and inhale via the left.
- Shut the left after which exhale via the appropriate.
- Inhale via the appropriate.
- Shut the appropriate after which exhale via the left
Proceed for about 10 rounds. As we transfer via the midline, we’re stimulating each hemispheres of the mind, serving to to create a way of calm and ease.
Neck Circles
- Sit up good and tall, reducing the chin right down to the chest
- Draw the chin over to the appropriate shoulder, to the ceiling, left shoulder and again right down to the chest
- Do that about 5 instances on this course, then draw the chin in direction of the appropriate armpit, take your proper hand and gently information the left ear away from the left shoulder.
- Launch the top, carry the chin right down to the chest and repeat moving into the wrong way
This motion is massaging the vagus nerve which performs an necessary function in shifting us right into a extra parasympathetic nervous system state – the remainder and digest state.
Sleeping Pose into Twist
- Lie flat onto the ground
- Bend the elbows like they’re in a cactus place
- Look to the appropriate after which slide the appropriate knee in direction of the appropriate elbow as if you’re sleeping. Keep right here for about 10 breaths
- Raise the top and slide the appropriate arm beneath the left arm and lengthen each arms lengthy. So that you’re now facet mendacity with the arms prolonged with palm on high of palm.
- Start to elevate the left arm to the ceiling (such as you’re drawing a rainbow over your physique) and open right into a supine twist. Keep right here for 10 breaths.
- Raise the left arm again to the ceiling, returning to your facet mendacity and again to mendacity in your entrance.
- Repeat on the second facet.
Baby’s Pose
Convey the massive toes to the touch, knees vast and let your seat hook up with your heels or a help (blanket, cushion, or block). Let the torso relaxation in between the thighs. Arms attain ahead with the elbows and forearms resting on the ground. If doable have the area between the brow relaxation onto the ground or a help. This will have a really calming impact on the thoughts.
Bringing Down the Heavens (a qigong kind)
- Standing tall with the toes about shoulders distance aside
- The knees are tender
- Attain the arms to the perimeters and up, imagining as if you’re gathering power out of your favorite place in nature.
- As soon as the elbows attain ear peak, start to show the palms face down, fingertips level in direction of each other and begin to transfer the fingers down via the entrance of the physique. Think about that you simply’re inviting that power into the physique, cleansing any emotions of overwhelm.
- Repeat this a complete of thrice.
Hopefully these poses will assist you to to shift any emotions of overwhelm. You’ve acquired this! Take it one step at a time.
