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Deeply relax with this yoga nidra practice. 

If you breathe, you belong here.

Kate Lynch is a meditation coach and inclusive yoga teacher. She specializes in using meditation, breath patterns, mindfulness, relaxation and gentle yoga to build resilience to anxiety.  This is NOT medical advice!

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Every Friday, I'll send you a free five minute practice to ease you into a rejuvenating weekend. Get on my email list to receive them all: https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/choices  As we do this empowering work together, we will embody self compassion, bringing our families and communities together in deeper truth and healing.

Deep relaxation to prevail over catastrophe, soothe anxiety and get serious about rest. Get warm and cozy and allow yourself to feel held by the earth. 

So while once we asked,

how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?

Now we assert

How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?

-Amanda Gorman, "The Hill We Climb"

If you breathe, you belong here.

Kate Lynch is a meditation coach and inclusive yoga teacher. She specializes in using meditation, breath patterns, mindfulness, relaxation and gentle yoga to build resilience to anxiety.  This is NOT medical advice!

Every Friday, I'll send you a free five minute practice to ease you into a rejuvenating weekend. Get on my email list to receive them all: 

https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/choices

As we do this empowering work together, we will embody self compassion, bringing our families and communities together in deeper truth and healing. 

I'm putting this podcast on hold temporarily while I focus on writing my book. 

The best way to stay in touch is through my email list. 

Restorative Yoga to Prevail Over Catastrophe  

Part of a Series: Restorative Yoga for Better Rest 

Grab some blankets and couch cushions and get serious about rest.  

The beginning of the class invites you to consider "sleep hacks" which you have tried and they have been successful in your life to remind you that you are empowered to create better rest in your life.   

Inspired by a line from poet Amanda Gorman, you are invited in this grounding and down-regulating restorative yoga practice to prioritize rest and sleep.  

"So while once we asked,

how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?

Now we assert

How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"

-Amanda Gorman, "The Hill We Climb"

If you breathe, you belong here.   

Kate Lynch is a meditation coach and inclusive yoga teacher. She specializes in using meditation, breath patterns, mindfulness, relaxation and gentle yoga to build resilience to anxiety.  This is NOT medical advice!   

Every Friday, I'll send you a free five minute practice to ease you into a rejuvenating weekend. Get on my email list to receive them all: https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/choices  As we do this empowering work together, we will embody self compassion, bringing our families and communities together in deeper truth and healing.

When you're overwhelmed it can be it harder to sleep. Yoga NIdra is a deep relaxation practice, and so much more. 

This guided practice invites you to toggle between different sensations within your body and scan your body from inner to outer and right to left. Once settled in your physical body, I'll talk you through your energetic centers so you can connect with their associated attributes. 

Nothing here is medical advice.

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Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles.

Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b

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Micro movements of your jaw and tongue can affect not only your jaw and neck, but on a deeper level your vagus nerve, and thus release tension more globally.  

This is a very subtle practice, done almost entirely in the restorative yoga posture 'legs up the wall', or viparita karani.  Allow this gentle inversion to reverse blood flow and nourish you as you mindfully focus on the subtle movements of your tongue and jaw.

Nothing here is medical advice.

Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast.

Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles.

Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b

Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

What longing has been living inside you, waiting to be more fully expressed? What intention is bubbling up from deep within you? 

Sankalpa is the practice of getting clear on your intention so that you are aligned with your highest potential. 

When your body can settle and you feel held, your thoughts and feelings can drop any doubtfulness that might be blocking your intention. 

Will you let self doubt cloud your inherent goodness, or will you feel supported by the earth and share your gifts with the world? 

Stress release smorgasbord! We have plenty of practice with hypervigilance. Now we need to practice feeling held. Find emotional balance and mental spaciousness through a variety of techniques. Recall a cherished memory to soothe your stress and change the habit of hyper-vigilance, go through a RAIN meditation to develop self-compassion, and finally receive yoga nidra, a form of guided relaxation.

Join a FREE New Year 2021 Celebration Flow!!!

Saturday, January 2, 2021

This is a FREE class, but there are a limited number of spots, so you need to preregister.

I can't wait to see you January 2, 10:30am!

https://healthyhappyyogascheduling.as.me/FREE2021

Nothing here is medical advice.

Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast.

Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles.

Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b

Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

This year has been so stressful! Here's a progressive guided relaxation you can share with the biggest ball of nerves you know. That might be yourself! Or maybe it's not. Think of the most wound up person you know. Send them this podcast. 

Release Your Muscle Tension  Squeeze and release your way to a calmer nervous system. Try this before sleep, or any time you feel like you just can't let go of accumulated stress. 

Nothing here is medical advice.

Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast.

Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles.

Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b

Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

This practice begins with a reading from Pema Chodron from 'When Things Fall Apart'. You can find any resting pose. Pema encourages us to find the middle way in order to observe our restlessness and spaciousness. We don't have to identify with victory or victimhood, but instead turn our fear upside down to awaken the bravery that exists in everyone.  

Then, begin a breathing practice from your center, to widen your circle of inclusion. 

Are you interested in my yoga videos? You can get a 30 day free trial with Yoga International, to try them. There's a practice you might like called

Restlessness and Spaciousness: Mindful Backbends to Make Space for Inspiration

http://yogainternational.oae6r3.net/c/2194793/839809/10875

Nothing here is medical advice.

Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast.

Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles.

Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b

Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

Restorative yoga fills your container and expands your ability to hold courageous space and experience ease at the same time. 

When our emotional container is small, we feel overwhelmed by everything. 

When we feel held in spaciousness, it doesn't feel like a burden to hold space for others. 

Please gather cushions and rolled towels or blankets. Begin sitting to tune in before coming into a supported reclined position called Supta Baddha Konasana. Cushions under your upper back and skull, soles of your feet together and knees apart. End with chanting Lokah Samastah Sukhinoh Bhavantu, wishing happiness and freedom to all beings everywhere.

Nothing here is medical advice.

Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast.

Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles.

Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b

Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com