Stress and anxiety management

If you experience

  • Shallow breathing
  • Tension in the chest
  • Tremors
  • Inability to fall or stay asleep
  • Mental fog
  • Emotional outbursts
  • Feelings of butterflies in the stomach
  • An obsessive fear
  • Avoidance of previously enjoyable activities

In addition to this, the following can be added :

  • General anxiety disorders
  • Panic attacks with or without agoraphobia
  • Agoraphobia without a history of panic attacks
  • A specific phobia
  • A social anxiety disorder
  • Post-traumatic stress
  • Chronic stress

Your nervous system has been overactive for far too long !

Stress & anxiety

“The nervous system remembers moments of intense stress.
It doesn’t know (or care) how much time has passed.
It will continue to be overactive until we learn to regulate and calm it down.“
Sarah Dergins, MSW

Anxiety is not just the inability to calm down. It is also :

  • Overthinking
  • Being hyper-sensitive
  • Fear of failure
  • The difficulty to say “no”
  • Making others happy
  • Inability to slow down (workaholism)
  • Excessive exercise
  • Prioritising work over personal life
  • Perfectionism
  • Lack of sleep
  • Restricting food intake, overeating, bulimia

All these behaviours are socially accepted and rewarded responses to trauma…

Yogatherapy is not a medical practice. The yogatherapist does not diagnose or cure any disease.

IN PRACTICE

This method is taught in hospitals, detention centres and welfare centres in the United States. It consists in anchoring, breathing and reprogramming techniques.

Anchoring : Anchoring with the help of the breath, mudras (hand positions) and postures is a sure way to self-regulate and change your energy very quickly. Whether you are tired, depressed, stressed or anxious, these techniques allow you to quickly feel a sense of well-being and to regain control of yourself. You start again on a new basis and manage the ups and downs of your life more easily.

Breathing : Learning targeted breathing techniques (pranayama), counteract and immediately calm a high stress or panic attack. You engage the brake of your nervous system which allows you to slow down, calm down and feel safe.

Reprogramming : This method helps you to reprogram your brain so that you are no longer subject to the vagaries of situations or events that trigger anxiety, panic attacks and other isolating behaviours.

This method includes :

  • 6 two-hour bilingual English/French sessions (workshops) online or in person 

Each session will allow you to :

  • To understand the difference between stress and anxiety
  • To acquire a range of simple and effective self-regulation tools
  • Recognise their triggers and reprogram your brain

Each session includes :

  • An introduction to yoga
  • Breathing exercises
  • The practice of mudras
  • Self-regulation and relaxation techniques
  • Affirmations
  • Meditations
  • Sleep hygiene

If you are interested in this method, please do not hesitate to contact me for a free meeting to discuss your needs and expectations.

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