From the previous article, we explained how yoga Brookvale can help balance our emotions. We will continue from there and give you some of the most effective yoga tools that can help in emotional release.
Making sounds
When holding a yoga pose while making sounds opens your throat chakra and allows emotions and tension to be released from the body. When you let out loud sounds during yoga, it eases frustrations. On the other hand, groaning softens your fear and humming releases joy whilst howling unbinds sadness. When your emotions become activated and begin to rise to the surface, it is important to vocalise to release them out of your body.
Backbends and hip openers
The shoulders, hips and throat are the main places where your emotional tension resides in the body. You should know these places during your asana practice or do a scan of your body at the beginning of a yoga practice. Doing this will look for tightness or tension in these areas
Holding the postures
After finding a yoga posture that opens areas of tension in your body and invokes emotional sensations, it is crucial to hold the yoga posture to your edge. Doing the mental or physical edge in any yoga posture hold can activate the release of emotions. It will also be cathartic in the poses where you hold tension. Whilst holding these yoga poses, use all the above techniques to get the strongest effect and the most complete emotional release. When you keep longer hold times of yoga poses in a yoga studio, you can facilitate them with the use of restorative postures and props or physically supported by a therapist or a yoga teacher.
Poses to release emotions
Emotional release can happen in any pose but several yoga poses are likely to generate an emotional response. These poses include the happy baby pose, the pigeon pose, the fire log pose, the downward facing frog, the fish pose, the extended dog pose, the wheel pose and the chair twist post.
Always keep it safe
It can be very powerful to use the above techniques and it can release intense emotions. If you aren’t familiar with this type of yoga, you should start off slowly and continue practicing as you perfect every technique. When too many emotions are released during yoga, it can be harmful. You don’t do this more than two to three times a month.
Make space to process
When you bring up strong emotions in yoga, it can be difficult to understand because things can get overwhelming. You should therefore give yourself permission to take enough time and space to process and contemplate all the emotions that come up. During yoga Brookvale, Shavasana and child’s pose are very powerful integration poses that allow you to connect with the emotional energies that get released when doing the poses. Hold the poses a bit longer to let the effect of your yoga practice sink.