The COVID pandemic caused a collective trauma. To stay healthy, we continually want to let go the trauma and fill ourselves up with the brilliance and magnificence of all that is good and right and true. I invite you to the medicine of the snake, to transform the poison into precious song.

Yoga for Letting Go

Yoga asana is one way to release trauma held in the body. Moving the body in general is good for this, which is why humanity has always danced and stomped and shaken. Our bodies may be our unconscious minds, their intelligence has been largely underestimated in Western medicine.

Yoga meditations are another way to let go of all which doesn’t belong to us.

Guided imagery offers a third way to let go. Using the mind’s active imagination, we may shake off what doesn’t belong to us, like a wet dog shaking the water off his back after a swim. If you like, imagine being in a helicopter flying above the sea, and dropping out all the hardship into the ocean. It is in a suitcase ( biodegradable and reef-friendly). Just toss it out.

Yoga for Filling Up

Connecting with friends, forests, animals, sun, moon, earth, is all yoga. Social support, exercise, gratitude, purpose, and altruism fill us with happiness.

Sounding meditations, and singing, in general, activates the parasympathetic nervous system and relaxation response. Nada yoga explores the singing of specific primal sounds from ancient energetic and vibrational languages such as Sanskrit.