Sue Cheung is a yoga and mindfulness meditation trainer with over a decade of expertise instructing at a few of London’s hottest studios. In 2023 Sue certified as an Integrative Change Employee with the Moral Teaching Collective and as an authorized Life Coach with the Life Coach Faculty.

Sue shares 5 poses to cut back overwhelm…

Alternate Nostril Respiration

1. Discover a snug seated place with a secure base and lengthy backbone.
2. Utilizing your dominant hand place the index and center finger onto the house between the eyebrow. 
3. Let your thumb relaxation on one nostril and the ring finger onto the opposite, letting the pinky finger curl in in the direction of the palm. 
4. Take a cycle of breath into each nostrils, then shut the precise nostril and inhale via the left. 
5. Shut the left after which exhale via the precise.
6. Inhale via the precise.
7. Shut the precise after which exhale via the left

Proceed for about 10 rounds. As we transfer via the midline, we’re stimulating each hemispheres of the mind, serving to to create a way of calm and ease.

Neck Circles

1. Sit up good and tall, reducing the chin all the way down to the chest
2. Draw the chin over to the precise shoulder, to the ceiling, left shoulder and again all the way down to the chest
3. Do that about 5 instances on this course, then draw the chin in the direction of the precise armpit, take your proper hand and gently information the left ear away from the left shoulder. 
4. Launch the pinnacle, convey the chin all the way down to the chest and repeat getting in the wrong way

This motion is massaging the vagus nerve which performs an essential position in shifting us right into a extra parasympathetic nervous system state – the remainder and digest state.

Sleeping Pose into Twist

1. Lie flat onto the ground 
2. Bend the elbows like they’re in a cactus place
3. Look to the precise after which slide the precise knee in the direction of the precise elbow as if you’re sleeping.  Keep right here for about 10 breaths
4. Elevate the pinnacle and slide the precise arm beneath the left arm and lengthen each arms lengthy. So that you’re now aspect mendacity with the arms prolonged with palm on prime of palm. 
5. Start to raise the left arm to the ceiling (such as you’re drawing a rainbow over your physique) and open right into a supine twist. Keep right here for 10 breaths.
6. Elevate the left arm again to the ceiling, returning to your aspect mendacity and again to mendacity in your entrance.
7. Repeat on the second aspect.

Little one’s Pose

Deliver the massive toes to the touch, knees huge and let your seat hook up with your heels or a help (blanket, cushion, or block). Let the torso relaxation in between the thighs. Arms attain ahead with the elbows and forearms resting on the ground. If attainable have the house between the brow relaxation onto the ground or a help. This may have a really calming impact on the thoughts.

Bringing Down the Heavens (a qigong type)

1. Standing tall with the ft about shoulders distance aside
2. The knees are tender
3. Attain the arms to the perimeters and up, imagining as if you’re gathering vitality out of your favorite place in nature.
4. As soon as the elbows attain ear top, start to show the palms face down, fingertips level in the direction of each other and begin to transfer the fingers down via the entrance of the physique. Think about that you just’re inviting that vitality into the physique, cleansing any emotions of overwhelm.
5. Repeat this a complete of thrice.

Hopefully these poses will allow you to to shift any emotions of overwhelm. You’ve acquired this! Take it one step at a time.