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Ep. 566 Yoga for Living with Loss with Sheena Nancy Sarles

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Learn how grief shows up in the body and how simple yoga techniques can help us recognize and embody grief in a healthy way.

A woman with short dark hair smiles at the camera, wearing a purple top. To her right, there is a book cover titled 'Yoga for Living with Loss' by Sheena Nancy Sarles. The background features a gradient of teal and dark green.

About the guest:

My guest Sheena Nancy Sarles is a yoga teacher, author, and longtime communicator whose work focuses on times of loss and transition. She has decades of experience teaching yoga for grief that includes breath, subtle movement, reflection, and nervous-system regulation. She is the founder of Yoga for Living with Loss and author of a book by the same name and today she discusses how grief shows up in the body. Learn more about her work at the website:

yogaforlivingwithloss.com

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This episode includes:

  • How Sheena became interested in yoga and applying it for her own grief after experiencing several deaths
  • Her recognition that grief is in the body as well as the emotions and mind
  • How yoga, chakras, and grief come together in her classes
  • “Grief is not something to remedy, it’s something to incorporate”
  • We all carry some grief with us at all times over some part of life or another
  • The functions of each chakra as well as the shadow side
  • How to balance the chakras and improve the functioning of each
  • The emphasis is on feeling whatever emotions are there rather than resisting and pushing them away
  • There are no timelines or rules for grief – it is universal but also unique
  • The power of witnessing what your grief is bringing you each day
  • The value of simple things like the breath, movement, and shaking the body during times of grief
  • Yoga for grief is basically coordinating breath and movement with awareness

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Ep. 539 Yoga, Breath, and Death: Death Café at the Yoga Studio with Leslie Howard and Richard Rosen

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Learn why “corpse pose” in yoga is a rehearsal for death and how yoga instructors are bringing Death Café into their studio.

My guests Leslie Howard and Richard Rosen are both yoga instructors at Nest Yoga in Oakland CA and are co-authors of a new book titled Savasana: Between Breath and Death – a how-to for the final pose. Leslie is a certified death doula and hospice volunteer. Richard is the author of five previous books about yoga. Leslie also facilitates a Death Café that meets regularly at the yoga studio. Learn more at these websites:

lesliehowardyoga.com

betweenbreathanddeath.com

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This episode includes:

  • What is Savasana (or Corpse Pose)
  • Corpse pose as a rehearsal for death
  • How it benefits us to have periods of conscious rest like Savasana
  • How Leslie was inspired to become a death doula
  • Incorporating Death Café into the yoga studio
  • How yoga practice can help during times of illness, stress, and at the end of life
  • How breathing helps soothe the nervous system
  • Restorative yoga poses for physical comfort at the end of life

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