Have you ever wondered how the nervous system can inform your practice or teaching of yoga? This week, Licensed Psychotherapist and Certified Yoga Therapist and Instructor Joann Lutz is here to share how you can use all of this nervous system knowledge to teach while staying aware of people’s potential traumas.
In this episode, Joann and I discuss the profound effect yoga had on her personally in her early life, the differences between therapeutic yoga as opposed to yoga for spiritual or physical development, and how to use the nervous system and trauma sensitivity in your yoga teaching or practice.
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Nervous System-Informed Trauma Sensitive Yoga, with Joann Lutz

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If you hate when you do get angry and try your best to avoid this uncomfortable emotion, today’s practice is for you.
Learn how to feel anger and process it in a way that feels safe and doesn’t hurt yourself or anyone else. When you stop avoiding this emotion, you won’t have to be sarcastic in disagreement, if uncomfortable with conflict, to control everything (including of your emotions), to shutdown when you’re upset, to feel resentful when people don’t do what you expect… or to numb difficult emotions.
Today somatic practice goes with my free workbook on how to feel your emotions and our episode 227 : Feel it to heal it and is an example of how to move the energy of anger out of your body, so next time you feel angry, you’ll know exactly what to do instead of repressing, numbing or overreacting, and I promise, you’ll be left wide-eyed wondering how you are just learning this now.
This somatic practice is part of our premium subscription, to get access to it, become a premium podcast member.
When you leave a review for the podcast on iTunes you can have access to the membership for free, including today’s class as a thank you for helping others to find the podcast and on their healing journey. DM @onandoffyourmatpodcast or email (erika.belanger@gmail.com) me a screenshot of your review and we'll get you set up.
On the membership platform, you'll find:   1. Your premium podcast episodes ($5/month).  2. You can now also have access to almost 600 recorded full-length yoga classes in a Netflix-Style Membership ($25/month).  3. You can sign up for any live-stream class I offer!
With our podcast premium membership, your contribution ripples to thousands of people every week, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis. This podcast is a way I contribute to the community, and this membership is a way you can too. It allows you to share everything yoga offers with the world by supporting me in the creation and production of this podcast while I choose to keep it ad-free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PREMIUM | A Somatic Practice to Feel Anger

Layla El Khadri knows how to get you to access your awe-inspiring magnetism. She has over a decade of experience guiding women to express their absolute highest potential and embody their magic. Through her business, Layla helps her clients tap into their feminine power, find their unique gifts, and turn them into mission-driven businesses that make a positive impact in the world.

 Discover how to embody the feminine way of doing business. Layla is sharing how to start finding your voice, inner power, pleasure, inspiration, and creativity so you can build a mission-driven business and live a life of passion and purpose.

 Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/228 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Feminine Way of Doing Business, with Layla El Khadri

I'm sure you've been told to feel your feelings before, but have you ever been told how? There's a process I use with my coaching clients to help them feel and process their emotions and trauma, so they can heal the past, leverage their sensitivity, and transform their lives, and I'm sharing it right here on today's show.

 Discover how to feel more fearlessly, be yourself more fully, and access more joy in your life. Learn why healing means truly feeling your emotions, and I show you a step-by-step process to stop getting lost in escapism when uncomfortable emotions are present, and instead show up for yourself with care, nurturance, and love.

 Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/227 or go directly to Get on the waitlist for my mini-course: Feel It to Heal It!

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Feel It to Heal It, with Erika Belanger

Meli is a dream interpreter who helps sleep-deprived and stressed individuals uncover the root cause of their anxiety through dream work. She helps people address suppressed emotions while providing them with the tools to release these emotions with a process she calls cosmic dream alchemy. 

 Gain a foundation in what your dreams mean, and what you can do with the messages you receive afterward. Meli shares her three steps to alchemize and process your emotions through the subconscious mind with dream work, and she even walks us through a whole process, as an example, using one of my own dreams so you can see it in real time.

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Using Your Dreams to Process Your Emotions with Meli, The Dreaming Yogi

If you experience chronic stress, regularly feel tension in your body or discomfort in your joints,  this episode if for you.
Today we are learning a body yanta. Body yantras are powerful proprioceptive practices, where your nervous system gets to map out where you are in space to move away from chronic holding patterns. This practice allows the NS to realign the bone structure of the body to induce more relaxation.
This micro-movement meditation is a harmonizing practice that organically helps you reprogram the way your skeletal system as been responding to your perceptions, internal stories and traumas.
This 30-minute yoga class is part of our premium subscription, to get access to it, become a premium podcast member.
When you leave a review for the podcast on iTunes you can have access to the membership for free, including today’s class as a thank you for helping others to find the podcast and on their healing journey. DM @onandoffyourmatpodcast or email (erika.belanger@gmail.com) me a screenshot of your review and we'll get you set up.
On the membership platform, you'll find:   1. Your premium podcast episodes ($5/month). Just like before, as a member, you can get a ton of exclusive audio and video content like this yoga class of overwhelm. 2. You can now also have access to almost 400 recorded full-length yoga classes in a Netflix-Style Membership ($25/month).  3. You can sign up for any live-stream class I offer!
With our podcast premium membership, your contribution ripples to thousands of people every week, allowing me to offer accessible quality free content to a wide community of yogis. This podcast is a way I contribute to the community, and this membership is a way you can too. It allows you to share everything yoga offers with the world by supporting me in the creation and production of this podcast while I choose to keep it ad-free.  
 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nervous System-Informed Trauma Sensitive Yoga, with Joann Lutz

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