Learn how grief shows up in the body and how simple yoga techniques can help us recognize and embody grief in a healthy way.
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:
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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- Yoga, Breath, and Death: Death Café at the Yoga Studio with Leslie Howard and Richard Rosen
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- The Grieving Body: Loss as a Healing Opportunity with Mary-Frances O’Connor PhD
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