Kundalini Yoga for Stress and Anxiety

Service Description

The simplest description for stress is from Hans Selye, the Canadian physician, who first borrowed the word from engineering and applied it to the physiological process he observed in his patients. He described stress as simply the body’s adaptation to change. It is how we respond whenever an internal or external event occurs. Change can be as simple as a shift in room temperature or as destabilizing as losing one’s job. Since change happens nearly every instant, we have a stress response nearly every instant. Stress is natural and necessary. Over time, we create our own individual stress response pattern through our thoughts and beliefs, our emotional responses, the way we breathe, and the way we hold and move our bodies. This pattern becomes set at a certain point, and although this response is intended to be helpful, more often than not our personal stress response pattern blocks the natural flow of ease in the body, and we become frequently sick, easily tired, often irritable, and generally “stressed out.” In each stress response, we draw on the capacity of the glandular and nervous systems, which in turn affects the sensitivity and vitality of the immune response. Where we hold tension and how quickly we release it—our individual, personal stress response—determines what happens in our body, how much energy we have, how healthy we stay, and how we feel at the end of the day. One characteristic of a healthy stress response is to take action when action is needed and to pause or rest internally when it is not. How we look at stressful situations and deal with them is the issue. Fight and flight response is normal but when it becomes chronic it starts to deplete us and feels like a constant perceived danger. How does stress make us feel in our body’s. How does it affect us inside and out. A study for YouGov had a sample of 4.619 respondents * 74% report feeling so stressed they have been overwhelmed or unable to cope. 46% report they ate too much or unhealthily due to stress 29% reported drinking more heavily 16% reported smoking or increased their smoking This leads to more stress within the body and mind and create more issues with our immunity. It’s a vicious cycle... Join me in this four session online series to explore stress and anxiety and build practices for resilience.