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  • hi

  • everyone, welcome to Ekhart Yoga, my name is Esther

  • I'd like to talk to you a little bit about depression and feeling low

  • which we all know

  • we all get it now and then, some a little bit worse then others

  • and how yoga can help you when you go through that.

  • so

  • when you're depressed your energy is stuck and

  • if you imagine your system as an energy system which it is

  • than things come in should move through and come out and

  • once something doesn't feel good or we're in a low mood for too long

  • something comes in it gets stuckg and it doesn't move out so thats where yoga

  • can be very helpful is to get sti energy moving and to get you moving

  • because you get into this place where you don't do anything anymore and i think

  • you will all recognized that when you have been there been there

  • so

  • first of all i would recommend to move your body to get the energy

  • flowing so don't be too passive

  • keep going

  • and then i would recommend to do a passive back bent or something to open the whole

  • chest area

  • and then i would recommend to meditate and to sit with whatever comes up

  • when you meditate you create a holding space for whatever is

  • happening

  • to you at a moment' and you create distance, instead of it happening to you

  • you sort of

  • observe it happening to, it just happens

  • and that away again taking that distance also gives

  • opening for things to move along when you're ready and and when you're done with them

  • so

  • these three things

  • get the energy moving

  • do a passive backbend, do a meditation

  • will be helpful. I made a video about that and you can click here it's about

  • fifteen minute a routine that takes you true all of those three things so you can

  • learn to do that for yourself at home

  • the other thing of course is if your depression is severe

  • and

  • you've tried a lot of things and you're really stuck, you need tot find help

  • sometimes you need someone to hold that space for you, not yourself ok

  • and it's really important just get out there and find the help you need, we all

  • almost need to go to that once in our life's too just find someone to hold the

  • space for us so we can move safely through whatever we need to move through

  • and that's really what I what i wish for you that's needed that you have the courage

  • to reach out and ask for help

  • in the meantime

  • do the sequence

  • on the video the longer video and get the help you need when you need to and I hope this is helpful

  • for you, namaste

hi

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