Welcome to a quick somatic practice that you can use during any workshop on here or during a stressful situation and oftentimes we don't realize that we could be in a workshop or in a gathering with people and we may be triggered or activated And so that could mean we might have an anxiety response or we may feel a bit overwhelmed and we may need to be grounded,
Especially if you're neurodivergent.
And so these three simple tips that I'm going to give you,
You can use as a foundational practice and you can support yourself.
So the first one is,
Is just deep breathing which we know so if you're on a workshop you're on a class and you just feel anxious you feel triggered just be aware of your breathing so bring your energy back to self so you're looking down will bring the energy down and it will slow your breathing.
So just look down and then we just place our hands on our heart area.
And we just breathe.
Through the nose.
And out the mouth.
And it's almost like we are blowing.
And this will really bring the energy down.
When we are emotive we will tend to raise our eyes upwards and that just brings all the energy and all the anxiety up towards the head which we don't want.
We want to ground into the ground.
The second one especially if you're sitting or you're lying down and you're feeling anxious and you cannot bring yourself.
To come back to self is just shake.
To shake or bounce.
And just shake the hands and just bounce.
And what that does,
That just brings energy into the places.
Which need grounding.
You can also stamp your feet.
It's really,
Really good.
Another one is for the yogis so if you know the child's pose if you're on a workshop and you feel overwhelmed you get into the child's pose.
So that is just lying down and just going into a ball Um.
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Good yoga practice,
Good regulating practice.
Enough of that.
Is looking so you tilt your head this way and you look the opposite direction so you tilt your head one way could be to the right and you look to the left and just focus on maybe the ceiling it could be a tree or somewhere just focus on that and that will bring your system down.
And the reason I want to offer this practice is because I'm always doing workshops here and around where people are and sometimes when you're in a group There is not time for you just to ground straight away,
So use this for any class that you are doing and it's almost like it's an emotional first aid.
I hope you enjoy this practice.
