How can yoga help you cope with stress?
Elodie Abadie • 13 septembre 2023

Yoga is effective against stress and anxiety
Stress
is the burden of the modern world. Today's society is focused on performance, competition and perfection, and stress infiltrates and creates devastating effects that are often underestimated.
Stress can ruin your life, disrupt your work and your family and friends, prevent you from enjoying your happiest moments, and sometimes even make you
physically ill.
Your body sends you signals when your stress level reaches a very high level. Such as muscle tension, digestive and gut issues, sleep disorders (insomnia), lack of appetite, migraines, dizziness and fatigue.
It's important to have some time to yourself, to let go of all those tensions and anxieties.
I'm convinced that the best response to almost any situation in life (at least initially) is to
observe. By definition, I can only observe whatever is not me, since I'm the one who's observing. To observe something is to place yourself outside of it: not to identify with it.
Meditation is the best way to observe yourself.
I'm going to share with you a meditation practice accessible to all:
- Sit down in the most comfortable position for you: cross-legged, lying down.... Think of a situation that arouses doubts or discomfort.
- Close your eyes and observe the sensations evoked by this situation. What do they tell you? Do I feel stiff? If my breathing is more restricted, I ask myself: What is suffocating me?
- Find out what you can do in response to this awareness to restore harmony within yourself.
It is then possible to enjoy a more relaxing life, even under pressure, by using simple tools such as meditation and Yoga Dance.
Why is Yoga Dance so liberating?
Yoga dance is a physical activity that alternates times of stamina with quiet moments. This pattern helps reduce stress by lowering blood pressure and heart rate.
The class helps you let go through repetition, work on movement with full body awareness and deep muscle work.
When I want to work on reducing stress, I add Vinyasa yoga poses most suited for stress or anxiety to my choreography. For example, plough pose, standing forward fold, puppy pose...
I invite you to sign up to my online studio to try out my latest choreographies.
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