
Students will recognize how grief affects the body , mind and spirit and how to be gentle with the process
Learn to sit with your pain through mindful grieving and yoga for grief, using breath work and gentle postures to ease emotional and physical pain and support lasting healing.
Learn how grief and trauma manifest physically in the body and how a gentle yoga sequence with ocean breath, heart-opening poses, and restorative stretches supports healing and emotional release.
Practice mindfulness to reveal and transform negative self-talk, using positive affirmations, mirror work, and tapping (emotional freedom technique) to heal grief and cultivate self-love.
Practice restorative yoga to mend emotional and physical wounds from grief and loss, cultivating the body-mind connection through breath, releasing stress, and staying present.
Practice three restorative postures, legs up the wall, childs pose, and final savasana, to release tension from grief, deepen breath, and cultivate quiet, compassionate connection with body and spirit.
You can experience physical manifestations of grief (insomnia, aches, and pains, headaches, heaviness in the limbs, fatigue), mental manifestations (difficulty focusing and concentrating short term memory loss), emotional (sorrow, anguish, anxiety, depression, relief), social (a change in your support network or sense of belonging), and spiritual manifestations (loss of meaning, purpose).
Yoga invites you to move into your bodies in a deeply compassionate way, so you can begin to experience your grief in a way that is self-supportive and nurturing.
Yoga for Grief combines the ancient practice of yoga accompanied with breathing exercises and self-care to help the bereaved through their journey. Yoga for Grief creates a safe and sacred space to begin to process and explore sensations, thoughts, and emotions in both the mind and body. The physical postures of yoga (asana) will be taught to nurture the heart and relieve the physical manifestations of grief. Students will be guided through breathing techniques (pranayama) to enhance the mind-body connection, and to induce a calm state of mind. Guided meditation and relaxation will be used to encourage students to journey and explore their grief in a supportive environment. Students will be taught empowering techniques to cope with their grief, find compassion for their journey.
Self-love and positive affirmation will be infused throughout the course.