Yoga Personal Instruction for Psychosomatics

In a Psychosomatic Therapy reading you come to understand why you are in the physical shape you’re in. This acknowledgement and new found awareness has immense power to bring about change in your life by shedding light on belief systems that may not serve your souls true expression. The removal of limiting belief systems can have powerful and often rapid positive effects on your physical body, however some changes require assistance and happen gradually over time.

Is there anything I can do to assist with psychosomatic imbalances?

Continual acknowledgment and awareness is key, not only to accept who you are at a much deeper level, but also to guide your actions. Conscious ACTION plays a vital role in how your physical body changes to allow more freedom of your full expression. Conscious action relates to everything we do, however what is being discussed here is conscious action at the level of physical exercise.

Conscious physical movement such as exercise can bring about positive changes in your body and also your mind simply because the mind and body are not separate.

It is important to understand that exercise alone does not equate to balance or health. Being physically fit does not necessarily equate to health and certainly not balance of the body-mind. In fact, exercise often strengthens psychosomatic imbalances because the body-mind is functioning unconsciously with fear and limitation.

So how do I know if I am exercising in a way that creates mind-body harmony?

Generally at the root of most musculo-sketetal dysfunction (see Musculoskeletal Therapy), illness or injury is lack of core muscular activation, which causes poor posture. The deeper reasons for lacking muscular core activation is conditioned belief systems, which vary in severity from person to person.

It is useful to understand there are common psychosomatic imbalances stemming from our collective unconscious that can be easily addressed through conscious movement. A common thread of postural issues relating to our societies collective consciousness, is locked knees, increased lumbar curve (sway back), increased thoracic curve, shoulders rolling forward, and the head is forward off the shoulders, with the chin also poking forward. In other cultures this is not the case.

In Musculoskeletal Therapy these dysfunctional patterns are called lower crossed & upper crossed syndrome. In Psychosomatic Therapy there are many energetic reasons for these patters, however in most cases there is a common lack of core awareness and core activation. It doesn’t matter if the person is a body builder, tri-athlete, yoga teacher or someone who works at a desk all day, ‘core’ activation is often lacking due to our collective unconscious belief patterns.

Yoga Personal Instruction

It is for this reason that Pure Elements Therapy has created Yoga Personal Instruction Workshops to help bring conscious action into exercise by re-activating the entire CORE from the legs to the head. The techniques taught in this workshop are not exclusive to yoga, however yoga practice encompasses the essentials for conscious movement through correct alignment, flow, breath, internal heat and focus.

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