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.

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4 practices

Posture and how you carry yourself A minute Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have · A minute

A minute 4 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 4 Me 4

Where you are right now

Getting ready for something 2 Struggling right now 2

On your own, or with someone

Involves someone else 3 On my own 1

Theme · Posture and how you carry yourself

Medication and how it works 22 Get started 20 Systems for daily life 20 Bringing the future closer 17 The moment before you snap 16 Structure and routine 16 Your nervous system 15 Fondness and admiration 14 Your sense of time 14 Choosing your response 14 Treatment and medication 13 Growing empathy 13 Answering bids 11 Knowing your partner 11 Staying regulated in conflict 10 Gratitude 9 What anger actually is 9 Food, caffeine and fuel 9 Making it stick 9 Exercise, food and other supports 9 Cool the body first 8 Touch and bodywork 8 Getting assessed and diagnosed 8 Listening and understanding 8 Grounding and settling 7 Breathing 7 Moving your body 7 Screens and attention 7 What ADHD actually is 7 Affection and touch 6 Feelings and focus 6 When everything feels flat 6 Remembering to do it 6 The cost of avoiding 5 The fear underneath anger 5 Treatment and medication 5 Shared spiritual life 5 Equanimity and perspective 5 Being seen and judged 5 Shame and stigma 4 Posture and how you carry yourself 4 Practising under provocation 4 Feeling from the inside 3 Emotions as signals 3 When you use something to cope 3 Self-compassion 3 What worry does 3 Facing it a step at a time 2 What you are actually defending 2 Tolerate distress 2 Your worth is not conditional 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Question the thought 2 Rebuilding trust 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Repair after rupture 1 Shame 1 Panic and the body 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Keep the bond 1 Get it out of your head 1 Face it gently 1 Rituals of connection 1

When · Any ordinary day

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

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.