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Yoga for Relieving Stress and Anxiety
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(91 ratings)
4,224 students

Yoga for Relieving Stress and Anxiety

Learning to use the body, breath and awareness to overcome and prevent stress and anxiety
Created byMinna Jarvenpaa, Zena Takieddine
Last updated 4/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Simple and effective yoga practices for relieving stress, tension and anxiety
  • How to optimize the immune system
  • How to regulate the nervous system and elicit the relaxation response
  • How to breathe better
  • How singing promotes good health - a yogic chant for healing

Course content

8 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 46m total length

  • Greetings and Introductions2:55

    Yoga for Relieving Stress and Anxiety


    “If you know how to free yourself of tension, you know how to solve your problems in life. If you are able to balance your tensions, you can control your emotions, anger and passions. You can control heart disease, high blood pressure, leukaemia and angina pectoris.”  - Swami Satyananda


    “...accumulation of stress affects the reserve capacity of an organism, both in the maintenance of its functional integrity and in the resolution of subsequent exposures to stress.”  - Peter Levine


    “Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.”  - Bessel van der Kolk


    “Chronic or severe arousal changes the nervous system. ... A vicious cycle is set off whereby worry maintains physical and emotional arousal and arousal maintains worry. ... Anxiety seems to take on a life of its own, and is not always proportional to what is going on in your life. ... The symptoms of anxiety are merely an exaggerated stress response. They lessen as we retrain our nervous system to be calmer.”  - Glenn Schiraldi


    “Yoga is an advanced, sophisticated system for retraining the nervous system. The majority of yoga techniques activate the relaxation response, making that pathway stronger and more easily accessible with regular practice.”  - Helen Cushing

Requirements

  • Anyone can join, no previous yoga experience required

Description

Optimize your health

We are all living together these strange and uncertain times where optimizing our mental & physical health is a priority. Keeping anxiety at bay – as individuals and collectively - helps us maintain a stronger immune system for ourselves and to protect the people around us.

This course offers simple and effective skills to help us cope with the negative effects of anxiety and stress, both of which are currently on the rise given the COVID 19 virus pandemic. Social distancing and hygiene help bring down the possibility of exposure, yes. They help us manage our space and avoid contamination, yes. But, in the meantime, how is our state of mind? Are we keeping our inner environment as spotlessly clean as our outer one?

Anxiety fills our body with stress hormones, adrenalin and cortisol. These hormones keep the body tense and geared for action against potential threat. However, if they stay too long, they become toxic and wear us out, bringing our immune system down. Fearful moods and ruminating thoughts that come with anxiety keep the stress going. Can we give ourselves an immunity boost and a mood uplift from the safety of our homes?

Tools for letting go

This online workshop is for everyone interested in learning how to use the body, breath and awareness to overcome stress and anxiety.  Asana, pranayama and yoga nidra sessions will be combined with an understanding of how stress and anxiety effect our physiology and our psychology, as well as how the yogic practices support our capacities to restore resilience.

The workshop will be facilitated by Zena Takieddine and Mantramala (Minna Jarvenpaa). Zena is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and yoga teacher with experience working with stress and trauma resolution in a variety of settings. Mantramala teaches yoga for refugees in Lebanon and is the founder of Tools for Inner Peace, an organisation set up to empower trauma survivors to manage their own healing and well-being with tools from yoga.

Come and learn how to move beyond stress and anxiety.


Videography and green juice making: Farah Azrak

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone experiencing stress and anxiety
  • Yoga teachers who want to offer others relief from stress and anxiety

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