Finding Calm: How Kundalini Yoga Can Help You Transform Anxiety
Everyone experiences anxiety at some point in their life, that feeling of fear, dread, or unease that our nervous systems invoke as a normal protective response to stress, like an early warning system. It can give you a helpful boost of energy and focus when you are in physical danger. However, when personal traumas and the constant flow of worrying thoughts embed in our nervous system, these feelings become chronic anxiety. It can manifest in a number of ways that feel very out of control: sweating, restlessness, tension, a rapid heartbeat, trouble concentrating or making decisions, nausea or abdominal distress, trouble sleeping, and an overwhelming sense of impending danger, panic, or doom. Even trying to relax can feel unsafe.
Transforming Anxiety is a course designed to help you meet your nervous system at its tender core and gain a deeper understanding of the mind-body interplay where anxiety arises. To this awareness we can apply yogic tools to help calm yourself during times of need and intervene in the cascade of symptoms before anxiety gets debilitating.
Over 8 weeks of embodied practice that build on each other, you will learn tools to self-regulate your response to stress, intervene in the constant flow of worrying thoughts, reduce physical distress symptoms, and trust your relaxation response. By developing a keen sensory perception of the mind-body mechanisms where anxiety arises, you can gain control and make empowered choices about how to respond to stressors most effectively.
When you learn to recognize your anxiety triggers early enough and take the time to understand what is happening in your body, you can use these tools to correct it quickly in the moment of panic. Over time, with continued practice, anxiety is no longer an overwhelming force limiting your life, but just another manageable emotion that serves it’s purpose of delivering information and then recedes.
“I recommend this course to anyone experiencing anxiety. Anxiety used to take over every aspect of my life, but through these meditations, practices, as well as going through this course with a cohort, I feel as though my anxiety is much more manageable. I have new tools I can use at any point in the day to calm myself.”
If you’re ready to meet your anxiety with compassion and discover tools to navigate it with greater ease, I invite you to join me for Transforming Anxiety through Kundalini Yoga. Over 8 weeks, we’ll explore yogic practices that calm the nervous system, quiet the mind, and create space for deep transformation. The course begins on January 16, 2024, and will meet in-person at Source Point Community Acupuncture on Thursdays from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM. Each session will be recorded and shared weekly for those who need flexibility or wish to revisit the material.
“Kari’s voice and approach are gentle, kind and loving, but the work is both challenging and intense. The breathwork can be demanding but the results are utterly relaxing. The duality of all things is ever present while we work for the singular goal - becoming better adjusted and more compassionate humans. It is within you. Kari is here to remind you of that, please let her. ”
This is your opportunity to begin the new year with intention and step into a greater sense of peace and balance.
I’d love to have you join me on this journey.
“I really resonated with the way you connected the yoga practices with the physiological and scientific processes at play. Previously, I sort of, ignorantly, thought of Kundalini as a bit too “woo woo” for me so it was especially transformative to open up to an additional tool kit for managing anxiety / depression. It also deepened my appreciation for yogic culture and practice as a whole. Thank you for cultivating a nurturing space for growth and healing.”
“I recommend this course and learned that to actually move past anxiety and all it’s effects, you must consistently participate in this practice continually, or nothing will change.”