
Explore high functioning anxiety as an internal experience masked by outward success, and learn how yoga therapy, awareness, and nervous system regulation help reshape self-worth and inner dialogue.
Explore common thought patterns in high functioning anxiety, including overthinking, rumination, racing thoughts, and cognitive distortions, and learn how yoga and mindfulness offer awareness and strategies to soften them.
Reframe the inner critic as a kind friend to cultivate kinder, more supportive thoughts and calmer internal patterns for managing high functioning anxiety.
Use a longer, memorized mantra to replace worry with a productive focus, keeping it with you anywhere; Om Namah Shivaya opens yoga flows and aids memorization.
Identify common patterns of high functioning anxiety, including seeking challenges and achievements. Explore how punctuality, being highly organized, planning, and deprioritizing fun relate to our needs and boundaries.
Learn a short therapeutic meditation that helps you observe the breath without attempting to fix it. Offer yourself patient, unhurried awareness and extend that patience to daily challenges.
Identify the physical signs of high functioning anxiety, including fatigue, headaches, muscle tension, jaw clenching, GI upset, tingling, rapid heart rate, sweating, and shakiness.
Move with yoga therapy for anxious over-achievers, using big movements to release big feelings, five-pointed star poses, weight shifts, and breath to create relief and inner strength.
Explore how yoga therapy and meditation foster a kind internal environment. Learn to listen to your body's signals, practice self-care, and soften perfectionism to support high functioning anxiety.
Explore how high functioning anxiety creates a lifelong pattern of relentless drive, perfectionism, and burnout, and learn yoga-based strategies to restore balance, boundaries, and well-being.
Welcome to this FREE Course with Laura Goellner, Yoga Therapist!
Are you...(or someone you know) an Over-Achiever who is driven toward success by internal patterns of worry, fear, anxiety, or self-doubt? This is an experience that is known as "High-Functioning Anxiety", and it is more common than we realize!
Many very successful people live in an INTERNAL world of pressure and self-criticism...never feeling like they have done enough, learned enough, achieved enough...
This can create patterns of overwork that impact our health, our relationships, and our overall happiness...eventually leading to burnout.
Fortunately, Yoga Therapy offers MANY techniques to help us soften the inner critic, connect to our innate worthiness, and create a friendlier internal world- so we can stay fully engaged in our life and contribute to our community in a healthy way!
This course is designed to help you:
-Understand the Patterns of "High-Functioning" Anxiety (Anxious Over-Achievement)
-Learn how this can impact your energy, health, and life satisfaction
-Learn simple Yoga Therapy Practices that create a SUPPORTIVE internal experience
-How to avoid BURNOUT as an "Over Achiever"
We will look at the:
-Though Patterns
-Behavior Patterns
-Physical Symptoms
of High-Functioning Anxiety
Yoga Therapy Practices:
- Though Reframing as a Kind Friend
-Long Mantra to break Worry
- Meditation for Self-Patience
- Big Movements to release BIG Feelings
- How to bring a SUPPORTIVE attitude into your Yoga & Meditation Practice
If you have any questions please contact me through Udemy Messenger
I look forward to creating a kinder internal world with you!
-Laura
Laura Goellner OTR/L, E-RYT, C-IAYT, CLT
I am an Occupational Therapist with over 14 years of clinical experience in physical rehabilitation. I started practicing yoga in 2003 and began teaching in 2005. I earned my designation as a Yoga Therapist in 2017.
My background also includes training in massage therapy, treatment of neurological conditions, and a specialty in working with the lymphatic system.
It is my goal to share the tools of yoga with you to gain a better self-understanding and move forward in your journey of healing and self-development.