Welcome to Yoga for Emotions

What I'm bringing to you in this pieces that you will be seeing is basically what I'm bringing into my yoga practice. So when I first got in touch with yoga, I was in real need to connect with my emotions. So all my personal work was done through my rational, using the mind, using the mind to get to know things and using the mind to heal myself. And there is a moment in my life when this was not working anymore and I realized I needed to get in touch with my emotions and giving space to my emotions. And then after a while practicing yoga and teaching yoga, I realized okay I need to find a way to bring all these that I know that it's already working but to communicate it to people. So the idea of this series is to give you some clues, some ideas about how you can give space during the yoga practice for your emotions to be there and how can you work with them so you are more able to support them so you are not overwhelmed with your emotions. Because really I could tell you moments in my life where I would start crying, I don't know, in a queue, being in a line for something and something would happen and I would be in the middle of the street crying like crazy. So I'm sure you don't want to find yourself in this situation but there is a way to give space to your emotions so you can really understand them. And the reason to do this when we are doing yoga, it's really simple. Like emotions are a play between the mind and the body. So basically the mind has thoughts and this creates a reaction. So the mind, the brain sends like all these chemical substances into your body, you know, that makes the body feel how your mind was telling you. So I have a negative thought, let's say, or a really good thought and then all these hormones are released into my body and now my body feels exactly like my mind was thinking and then my body now sends a message to the mind saying, wow, I'm feeling sad or I'm feeling depressed or I'm feeling, you know, super happy. So there is this constant feedback between the mind and the body. So when we go back to the body and we start listening to the body we have access to these emotions and it's really hard sometimes to just lay down and observe and really know what is happening, what is going on today. Am I sad? Am I happy? What is really there? Sometimes the emotions, they present themselves so mixed up that it's really difficult to know what is happening. But one of the things that we use in yoga is awareness. So what we do is we stay in the body we listen to the body, we listen inside. So we get to know what is there today and the more we go back to this inner awareness the more things we realize. And at the beginning is only a sensation of the muscles, the joints or how the body structure works but then maybe we start feeling more subtler and subtler things and if we are lucky and we stay enough in the practice one day we will see, we will feel, we will listen to an emotion rising up. So we will be able to understand how these emotions started in our body and the same with the mind. When we are sitting or laying down or doing our yoga postures, if we are really listening inside and being aware we start noticing when the mind kicks in, when the mind is not aware anymore to be in the body and the sensations and start sending messages and what kind of messages the mind is sending and what are the effects that the messages that the mind are sending is it has at the physical level. And this is the magic of the yoga practice that when you start really working from the awareness, really wanting to listen and learn, big teachings come and those teachings are just helping you to understand who are you. So the aim of these sequences that I'm bringing is not really to change anything because things keep on changing constantly but the aim is to give space to these emotions to be there so you can relate with them and then magically they will get transformed. What we don't know is how but it will happen and my experience tells me that the more I trust the journey and the less I try to push things in a certain direction because the pushing comes from the mind I want things to be in a certain way. So the more I give space for things to be the way they really are, the more things transform in a positive and magical way for me. And this transformation that happens in me it makes amazing changes around me. So it doesn't only work for myself it works for all those around me as well. So I'm in a moment of my life that I'm really into flowing and trusting the journey and and and I know it's difficult but I hope that this pieces I'm bringing and will help you to get a little bit more in touch with what you're feeling and how you're feeling and that you will have new tools to work with them. So welcome. Namaste.