This week on the Practice, meditation and hypnosis expert Mark Stevens guides us through a 25-minute hypnotherapy session for healing past trauma. You’re encouraged to follow along with this practice—as long as you’re not operating machinery.  

When we experience trauma, we can get stuck in a cycle of reliving it in our minds, which causes negative energy to be stored in the body. Today’s hypnosis is meant to help you release. 

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Although the in and out breath have different effects on your mind and body, the quality of each helps bring out the best in the other. That’s why a deep exhalation is important: A release is required in order to usher in oxygenated blood during the inhalation, which gives us a boost of vitality. Here, Tias Little, founder of Prajna Yoga and author of Yoga of the Subtle Body, shares a moving practice to help you facilitate full release on the exhalation.

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This week on the Practice, Cyndi Lee, renowned yoga teacher and founder of OM Yoga, teaches a daily intention to start living and leading from the heart. Words carry intention and plant seeds. That’s why taking a moment to practice this dedication daily will help shift things in your life to open you up to love and abundance.

Ready to move deeper into vinyasa and build a practice that will support you for decades to come? Join Cyndi’s online course, Slow Flow: Sustainable Vinyasa Yoga for Life, at yogajournal.com/courses.

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This week on the Practice — Alan Finger and Sarah Platt-Finger, co-founders of ISHTA Yoga — teach a 4-minute breathing meditation for clearing your throat chakra to communicate with clarity and truth.

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This week on the Practice, Author and spiritual coach Lalah Delia leads us through a 12-minute meditation for finding joy and self-gratitude and to radiate light and love.

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This week on the Practice, Alicia C. Easter—LA yoga teacher and cohost of the What Are You Bringing Podcast—guides us through a 16-minute self-compassion chakra meditation that emphasizes kindness, love, abundance, and trusting your truth.

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This week on the Practice, Richard Miller—psychologist, author, and founder of iRest Institute—teaches an 11-minute meditation for experiencing innate wholeness. Through guided visualization and awareness techniques, you’ll be reacquainted to what it feels like to just be -- cultivating an ever-present tool you can use to experience deep relaxation and profound healing at any time.

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This week on the Practice, Richard Miller—psychologist, author, and founder of iRest Institute—teaches a 10-minute meditation for working with challenging emotions. At times, feelings such as anger, anxiety, sadness, or grief can feel overpowering. Through meditation, you can build skills to enhance a sense of control. Through this practice, you'll gain new perspectives and practice meeting your emotions and truly feeling them—helping you cultivate the ability to weather through even the most challenging emotional turmoil.

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This week on The Practice, Mary Beth LaRue, a vinyasa yoga teacher and cofounder of the Rock Your Bliss coaching program, teaches a Root Chakra Practice to Get Grounded and Present. When your Root Chakra is in harmony, you feel at home in your body and at ease in your daily life.

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Our breath is the vehicle for prana, the vital life force that animates our entire reality, says Tracee Stanley, meditation and Yoga Nidra teacher and author of Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation & Awakened Clarity, who this week, teaches a 6-Minute Practice to help you develop awareness of, and sensitivity to, this life force. Using the mantra So Hum, meaning "I Am That", this meditation is designed to help you tap into the magic of your breath and bring your practice -- and your life—into new dimensions.

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