Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

Narrowed down

5 practices

Posture and how you carry yourself Me Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have

A minute 3 Five minutes 1 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for · Me

A practitioner 5 Me 5

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 3 Getting ready for something 1 Coping, mostly 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 8 Involves someone else 5

Theme · Posture and how you carry yourself

Medication and how it works 47 Systems for daily life 26 Staying regulated in conflict 24 Knowing your partner 15 Rebuilding trust 14 Affection and touch 13 Moving your body 13 Listening and understanding 12 Repair after rupture 11 Rituals of connection 11 Answering bids 11 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 Shared spiritual life 10 The moment before you snap 10 Breaking the worry loop 10 Screens and attention 9 What anger actually is 8 Treatment and medication 7 Growing empathy 7 Your nervous system 7 Feelings and focus 7 Choosing your response 7 Bringing the future closer 7 Grounding and settling 6 Remembering to do it 6 The cost of avoiding 6 Breathing 6 Get started 6 Exercise, food and other supports 5 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 Treatment and medication 5 Equanimity and perspective 5 What worry does 4 What ADHD actually is 4 Structure and routine 4 When everything feels flat 4 Cool the body first 4 When you use something to cope 4 Getting assessed and diagnosed 4 Your sense of time 3 Tolerate distress 3 Practising under provocation 3 Emotions as signals 3 Being seen and judged 3 Panic and the body 2 Shame 2 Rest and pacing 2 Help someone grieving 2 Touch and bodywork 2 Fondness and admiration 2 Ask and say no well 2 What you are actually defending 2 Gratitude 2 Living with uncertainty 1 The fear underneath anger 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Making it stick 1 When you go numb 1 Validate yourself and others 1 Safety and grounding 1

When

Any ordinary day 4 Under stress 1

What frightens a body is usually not how hard a thing is, it is having no way out. So put movement as an offer. If it feels alright, you might try lifting your arms.

The wording is doing quiet work here. Lift your arms, and see what happens if you lift your arms, are the same physical event, but only one of them…

A minutePosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 2:239

Whatever a person walks in carrying belongs in the practice. The ache in the hip, the irritation, tears that arrive for no reason, the part that thinks all of this is nonsense.

Complex trauma teaches people to leave pieces of themselves at the door, and a yoga mat is an easy place to carry on doing exactly that, particularly…

A minutePosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 82:7

When you start paying attention to your body, things wake up. More feeling, a deeper breath, memories arriving sideways. That is the practice working, not the practice going wrong.

Say this at the start, not afterwards. People who were not told tend to decide the movement made them worse and stop, when what actually happened is…

A minutePosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 17:109

Keeping your eyes open holds you in the room while you feel what is going on inside. One channel on where you actually are, one on yourself.

Closed eyes are the default in most classes and they are not always kind. When a lot is stirring, letting the eyes stay soft but open, so the light…

Five minutesPosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 15:98

Play belongs here. Being a lion, a tree, a hissing snake, the way children do it with no embarrassment at all.

A lot of people meet trauma work as something solemn, and solemn is easy to sit through without ever softening. Silliness is harder to fake. If a…

Twenty minutesPosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 22:27

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