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.

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...

Yoga stretches to include pre-run and post-run to optimise your running.

With so many different styles of yoga to choose from, it can be tricky to know where to start and what to expect when you try yoga for the first time. I’ve been practicing and teaching Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga and Ashtanga-informed yoga for many years and have put together a quick summary to help explain some key terms including what you might experience when joining an Ashtanga yoga class.

We all know how important the pre-run warm-up and post-run cool-down stretches are, but how many times have we skipped that part of the run? (If we’re being honest with ourselves!). We might get drawn into the run itself; focusing on our running technique, the distance we’re aiming for, the course we’ll take on the run, or our longer-term goals and training for races.

Reflections on teaching yoga to people accessing mental health services

BAM Therapy | Wellbeing Yoga Exeter explores the physical and mental health benefits of yoga with a review of the science that backs it.