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 Clear all

How long you have · A minute

A minute 5 Five minutes 6 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for

Me 5 A practitioner 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 34 Grounding and settling 28 What anger actually is 26 Medication and how it works 25 Your nervous system 25 Systems for daily life 24 Bringing the future closer 22 Answering bids 22 The fear underneath anger 22 Get started 20 Treatment and medication 18 Your sense of time 17 Equanimity and perspective 17 Structure and routine 16 Fondness and admiration 15 Practising under provocation 14 Growing empathy 14 Affection and touch 14 Making it stick 14 Knowing your partner 14 Touch and bodywork 13 Repair after rupture 13 Feelings and focus 12 Getting assessed and diagnosed 11 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 When everything feels flat 9 Gratitude 9 Exercise, food and other supports 9 Breathing 9 The cost of avoiding 9 Moving your body 9 Listening and understanding 8 Being seen and judged 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Treatment and medication 8 Tolerate distress 8 Remembering to do it 7 Screens and attention 7 Shared spiritual life 6 What you are actually defending 6 Shame and stigma 6 Rituals of connection 6 What worry does 6 Feeling from the inside 5 Emotions as signals 5 Shame 5 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 Rebuilding trust 5 Question the thought 4 Self-compassion 4 Obsessions and compulsions 3 When you use something to cope 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 Name what you feel 3 Safety and grounding 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Ride the urge 2 Patience and trust 2 Panic and the body 2 Validate yourself and others 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 Meaning after harm 2 Working with anger 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 Your worth is not conditional 2 Let the wave come 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Hold a boundary 2 Calm the body 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Rest and pacing 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Keep the bond 1 Act on your values 1 When you go numb 1 Ask and say no well 1 Help someone grieving 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Get it out of your head 1 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Listen to the body 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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