Shake It Out: Reset Your Nervous System

This short movement session guides you through a gentle shaking practice to release pent-up energy and reset your nervous system. Shaking is one of the most natural stress-relief tools your body has — animals do it instinctively after threat, and we can too. In just 3 minutes, you'll discharge stored tension, drop out of your head, and arrive back in your body. All you need is a little space to move. No experience necessary.

Transcript

So we're gonna do a short, Gentle shaking practice today. You can do this seated if standing isn't appropriate for you today. If you're gonna do this seated, You just move parts of your body that you can in the way that you can. Otherwise, Come to standing, Feet a little bit sort of wider than hip width apart. And let's just start by just bending through the knees. So we're just bending and then gently straightening. As you do this. Just allow the rest of your body to soften. And if you're seated, You can just kind of do this through the shoulders. So rather than bending the knees, You can just lift and lower the shoulders. We're going to see how much of our body we can just relax and soften into this bounce. So as you can see, Like my arms. And my hands are kind of being all floppy, My head's bouncing around a little bit. We want to be mindful of the head and the neck so that we're not doing ourselves an injury. But just allow. For this bouncing. And maybe this tempo or the tempo that you're at, The pace you're at is enough, In which case you just stay there and just allow. For this to continue but if you want you can just add a little bit more energy to it so maybe a little bit more intentionality with the hands and the arms so I'm actually actively now shaking my arms and my hands. And I'm just letting my head. Go a tiny bit. More? And then just allow your breath to start flowing so we can take some nice long breaths in through the nose. And kind of sigh out through the mouth. Grrrrrrrr! We'll just go for another 10-15 seconds. So a nice short practice. Is to allow you to. Just release any pent-up energy. Okay, Just a few more seconds and then we're gonna. . . Bring this into stillness slowly. So we're not going to abruptly stop, But we're just going to slow it down. Slow it down. And then when you find yourself in a relative stillness, Just pause for a few moments. Just taking a few more conscious breaths and just noticing. What is alive in your body? Notice the different parts of your body, The energy that's flowing through. Beautiful.

Reviews

Nice short practice that can inspire further movement. Great for a quick ‘pick me up’ or energy reset. I like to add in bouncing my heels, and towards the end, gentle swaying before comple stopping.
Thank you Rachel ✨💜✨