PSYCHOLOGY & YOGA ARTICLES

Sometimes our emotions can seem overwhelming. The mixture of stress, anxiety, and other powerful feelings can leave us feeling lost. Yoga offers effective tools for handling these emotions. By practicing yoga, we can learn to accept and understand our feelings, whether they are easy or challenging.

Yoga is sometimes seen simply as a way to build strength and flexibility. But the heart of yoga reaches deep into our minds and offers a path to personal growth, encouraging us to connect our thoughts, feelings, and physical movements. Understanding the psychological aspects of yoga can deepen our experience, leading to significant changes in how we perceive ourselves and the world around us.

Yoga practices play a vital role in resetting the nervous system to help improve our mental wellbeing as well as our physical self. In this blog post, we will explore how yoga empowers both the mind and body, offering a complete approach to wellness.

In our fast-paced world, stress often feels unavoidable — but your breath holds the key to calm. Changing the way in which we breathe is fundamental to improving our mental and physical health, and psychology and neuroscience back its power. This blog post explores the mechanisms behind these techniques and how they empower us to stabilize our emotions and achieve a balanced state of mind.

Following on from the recent article that explored psychological perspectives on stress, the focus now shifts to resilience.

Emotion regulation is the ability to respond to and manage our emotions in a healthy and helpful way. It is an important skill for everyone to have, but it can be challenging. We know that painful or traumatic early life experiences can disrupt our ability to regulate our emotions – we might not have been taught or supported to develop skills with healthy emotion regulation. Through no fault of our own, we might learn to detach or avoid emotions, or express them in less helpf

Conscious deceleration is the intentional slowing down of one's life in order to improve overall well-being. It is a way of living that emphasizes mindfulness, intentionality, and simplicity.

Exploring the ways that yoga practices support a positive and helpful relationship with the body.

In this blog article, the mental wellbeing benefits of yoga and mindfulness are explored, with a particular focus on how these practices help to relieve and reduce anxiety.

Exploring the differences between trauma-informed yoga approaches and traditional yoga classes You might have seen my recent social media...

BAM Therapy grew out of my passion to take yoga further, an inner drive to harness yoga practices that work with our deeper layers of psychological landscape. BAM Therapy was started in 2022 in Exeter to meet together my two worlds of clinical psychology and yoga – to offer holistic therapies that nourish and nurture our physical self, mind, and emotional wellbeing simultaneously.

Healing from trauma through yoga - a personal journey from the owner of BAM Therapy Exeter, Kayleigh Darch