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 A minute Me Clear all

How long you have · A minute

A minute 5 Five minutes 6 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for · Me

A practitioner 5 Me 5

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 3 Getting ready for something 2

On your own, or with someone

Involves someone else 3 On my own 2

Theme · Posture and how you carry yourself

Staying regulated in conflict 46 The moment before you snap 39 Choosing your response 36 Cool the body first 33 What anger actually is 25 Your nervous system 24 Grounding and settling 24 Medication and how it works 23 Systems for daily life 22 Answering bids 22 Bringing the future closer 22 The fear underneath anger 21 Get started 20 Equanimity and perspective 17 Fondness and admiration 15 Your sense of time 15 Practising under provocation 14 Affection and touch 14 Treatment and medication 14 Knowing your partner 14 Making it stick 13 Growing empathy 13 Repair after rupture 13 Touch and bodywork 12 Feelings and focus 12 Structure and routine 12 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 Gratitude 9 Breathing 9 Exercise, food and other supports 8 Being seen and judged 8 Listening and understanding 8 When everything feels flat 8 Moving your body 7 What ADHD actually is 7 Tolerate distress 7 Getting assessed and diagnosed 7 Remembering to do it 7 Rituals of connection 6 Shared spiritual life 6 What you are actually defending 6 What worry does 6 Treatment and medication 6 Shame and stigma 5 Rebuilding trust 5 Screens and attention 5 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 Feeling from the inside 4 Question the thought 4 Self-compassion 4 Name what you feel 3 Emotions as signals 3 Safety and grounding 3 Let the wave come 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Patience and trust 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 Ride the urge 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Shame 2 Meaning after harm 2 Validate yourself and others 2 Hold a boundary 2 Working with anger 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 Your worth is not conditional 2 Facing it a step at a time 2 When you use something to cope 2 Calm the body 2 The cost of avoiding 2 Help someone grieving 1 Rest and pacing 1 Get it out of your head 1 Panic and the body 1 Ask and say no well 1 Face it gently 1 Keep the bond 1 Letting it out safely 1 When you go numb 1 Listen to the body 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Act on your values 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Care for yourself in loss 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

You are not here for a longer hamstring. You are here for a nervous system that can change gear, work when work is needed and settle when it is not.

An ordinary class measures you against the shape, and that measuring is the same self driving that wore you out in the first place. The therapeutic…

A minutePosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 31:19

When attention has nowhere to settle, give it something. A fixed point on the floor, the breath, the shape your hands are making, or the plain feel of the position you are in.

Which one you choose matters more than people expect. Focusing on the breath turns attention inward, and inward is the wrong direction for anyone…

A minutePosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 22:26

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