Grief Yoga - Flowing with Grief

In this six-minute "Flowing with Grief" practice, you will explore restorative techniques like Flowing Breath and Windmill to release the heavy weight of loss. This moving meditation deepens your breath and relaxes the body, providing a compassionate space to process bereavement or relationship loss. By the end, you'll feel more grounded and supported as you move stagnant energy out of your heart.

Transcript

And now we're going to flow a little bit with the breath. With your hands down and palms up, Just inhale, Float with the breath up and exhale, Float with the breath down and feel your feet grounded. Good. Now keep moving at your own pace. This is a moving meditation. So just allow yourself to flow with your breath. Good. And next time your hands are in the air, Hold them right there. We're going to use a little more of a powerful breath. We'll inhale, And then exhale with your hands to one side. Just kind of like, Inhale up and to the other side. Good. And I just keep going back and forth. Almost as if there's something you need to allow to move through. Just release it. Let it go to one side with your breath and movement. One more time. Each side. Good. And then just kind of shake it out. Good. We're warming up our body. We're using our breath. Now a little bit more of a stronger technique. What I invite you to do is bring your thumb and index finger to touch. And we're going to do three breaths, Almost like you're doing an orchestra here. It's kind of like a, And then with your exhale, I just want you to let something go and release behind you. And again, Two more. Good. And I'll just shake it out, Shake it out through the hands, Shake it out through the feet, Shake it out through the body. Just begin to shake and move it through. Now bring your hands and allow the top parts of your finger to come right up to your heart space. Now I just didn't want you to lightly tap your heart space. Continue to breathe here. And I want you to affirm whatever you're feeling or whatever you're going through right now. I just want you to say it out loud. And whether that be anything from I am, I am sad. I'm overwhelmed. I'm anxious. I'm afraid. Whatever is the struggle that you are holding onto, Can you just acknowledge it right here? Just say, I am incomplete with whatever you need to say here. I'm sad. I'm overwhelmed. And whatever you said in that space, Almost as if you were witnessing it back to yourself. Now just say it back to yourself, Whether it's, You are sad, You are overwhelmed. Whatever you said that you said, I am to just repeat it back. Almost as if you were witnessing it within yourself. You are, You are overwhelmed or you are in pain. You are angry. You are hurt. Whatever you need to affirm right now, Just acknowledge it within yourself. Witness it. And now I invite you to place one hand on your heart and allow the other hand to hold that hand here and just take a breath here as if you were holding the space with love, As if you were holding your heart with love.