Reducing Every Day Stress

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Reducing Every Day Stress

In my past 25 years of teaching, I have never met a person who isn't harboring some level of habitual tension. Tension has a psycho-neurological component. Every time we don’t feel okay about something, we tense up in our body and it doesn’t release until we feel grounded, slow down, take a deep breath, and soften our body.

Eventually, stress can manifest in the body as tension. Tension, IS the stress response finding a home in the body.

When we relax areas of habitual tension, we send a message to the body that we don’t need to be armoring ourselves and defending ourselves from a threat.

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Master The Art of Conscious Relaxation. Attend an Upcoming Trainings and Retreats

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Master The Art of Conscious Relaxation. Attend an Upcoming Trainings and Retreats

Should you wish to join me for a retreat, workshop, or shorter training check out my calendar below as I have several upcoming programs in the tri-state area, LA, Costa Rica, and online.

And, mostly, thank you for practicing. As each of us learns to relax more deeply, it's not only good for us, but we have a nourishing impact on everyone we come into contact with. It is an offering you are making to everyone around you. And little by little, this helps spreads more peace on the planet. 

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Welcome! It’s safe to land here.

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Welcome! It’s safe to land here.

I recently had the opportunity to share Restorative Yoga with Mindful Magazine's Senior Editor, Kelle Walsh.

After our session we sat down to talk about -- the healing conditions that we cultivate for our body, mind and spirit - when we allow our bodies to be held, completely, by the support that is underneath our body and allow our breath to flow freely through us.

This meeting turned into a featured article in this month's Issue of Mindful Magazine. Here is just a short teaser of a deep and beautiful exploration of the practice that Kelle shares from her own experience.

The Magazine is available on newsstands all this month, and visit Mindful.org to practice a free soft belly breathing meditation with me.

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When a panic attack becomes a gift.

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When a panic attack becomes a gift.

I came to learn that inside, I held buried feelings that came from growing up with a chronically ill and volatile father. I just was not aware of how deeply I was holding onto things...until I had the panic attack. What seemed to have happened, was that the trauma of losing my sister-in-law, who was around my age and a lot like me, was a trigger event for facing the vulnerability that I'd been suppressing for so long. 

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