Jill Murawski joins me for episode three of B.R.A.V.E. to share her passion for finding stillness, setting children up for learning success and brain health. Jill owns Fit Yoga in Richardson, Texas and is a trained educator with STRIPES. In this episode, she shares her values and how she lives into her values through her life, including how she finds stillness each morning. Jill discusses the difference of holding ourselves to what we ‘should’ be doing versus bringing ‘allowing’ into our lives. Allowing leads to grace in our lives.

STRIPES is Systematic Training in Relaxation for Inner Peace for Every Student, a wonderful program that involves learning to be still, to move, and breath to help set students up for learning success. Teaching these skills guides youth to learn that they have all the tools within them already to be able to move through life. This leads us to the discussion around children feeding off adults’ nervous systems. Breathing is a vital tool for helping educators and students self-regulate, bring a sense of calm, and move into their parasympathetic nervous system. Jill advocates that educators need to practice pausing, breathing, and being still as a part of self-care. This leads us back to giving ourselves grace as we are in our practice of self-care. Jill is also an Embody Love Movement Facilitator, which we will share more about in a future episode. The ELM facilitator training mentioned in this episode is past, but if you are interested in learning more, please email me - see below.

 

Self-Care Ideas

Take time each morning to pause and find stillness through meditation, quiet time, or getting into nature

Learn breathing techniques

Bring movement into your morning

Give yourself grace - allow self-care to come into your life

Schedule time for yourself to take a break

 

Questions to Ask Yourself

How do you begin each morning? How does this routine affect you as you move into your day? Are there adjustments you would like to make?

What are you in the practice of each day?

What is your technology use like and how is it affecting you?

What is one thing you can schedule for yourself this week to take a break?

 

Resources

STRIPES

Embody Love Movement

Self-Compassion Steps

Co-Regulation

You can follow Jill and learn more about STRIPES at https://fityogajill.com/

 

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Want support in developing authentic self-care? Work with me one-on-one for 3 months and we will create a self-care system that works for you! Or join BRAVE self-care mastermind, enrolling now and beginning December 1st. Email [email protected] for more info, and follow me personally on Instagram @embodied.soul.love

Until next week, go out Be BRAVE, Hearts Forward.

 

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Music by https://www.soundcloud.com/ikson