Yoga Therapy - Stress and anxiety management
Stress and anxiety management | Elisabeth Rivasseau
Stress and anxiety management
If you experience :
- Shallow breathing
- Tension in the chest
- Tremors
- Inability to fall or stay asleep
- The mental fog
- Emotional outbursts
- Feelings of butterflies in the stomach
- An obsessive fear
- Avoidance of previously enjoyable activities
Your nervous system has been overactive for far too long!
Anxiety is associated with a particular point of view that leads us to overestimate the danger and underestimate our abilities.
In addition to this, the following can be added:
- General anxiety disorders
- Panic attacks with or without agoraphobia
- Agoraphobia without a history of panic attacks
- A specific phobia
- A social anxiety disorder
- Post-traumatic stress
- Chronic stress
The nervous system remembers moments of intense stress.
It doesn't know (or care) how much time has passed.
It will continue to be overactive until we learn to regulate and calm it down."
Sarah Dergins, MSW
Anxiety is not just the inability to calm down:
It is also:
- Overthinking
- Being hyper-sensitive
- Fear of failure
- The difficulty of saying 'no
- Making others happy
- Inability to slow down (workaholism)
- Excessive exercise
- Prioritise work over personal life
- Perfectionism
- Working on little sleep
- Restrict feeding, undernourishment
All these behaviours are socially accepted and rewarded responses to trauma...
The "Overcome" method
The Overcome method is taught in hospitals, detention centres and welfare centres in the United States. It consists of anchoring, breathing and reprogramming techniques.
Anchoring: Anchoring with the help of the breath, mudras (hand positions) and postures is a sure way to self-regulate and change your energy very quickly. Whether you are tired, depressed, stressed or anxious, these techniques allow you to quickly feel a sense of well-being and to regain control of yourself. You start again on a new basis and manage the ups and downs of your life more easily.
Breathing: Learning targeted breathing techniques (pranayama), counteract and immediately calm a high stress or panic attack. You engage the brake of your nervous system which allows you to slow down, calm down and feel safe.
Reprogramming: The Overcome method helps you to reprogram your brain so that you are no longer subject to the vagaries of situations or events that trigger anxiety, panic attacks and other isolating behaviours.
The "Overcome" method includes:
- 6 two-hour bilingual English/French sessions (workshops) online or in person
Each session will allow you to:- To understand the difference between stress and anxiety
- To acquire a range of simple and effective self-regulation tools
- Recognise their triggers and reprogram your brain
- Each session includes:
- An introduction to yoga
- Breathing exercises
- The practice of mudras
- Self-regulation and relaxation techniques
- Claims
- Meditations
- Sleep hygiene
Bonus:
- Almost 100 pages of online material in English and French including videos, workbook pages and tracking charts to assess your commitment and progress.
- Access to the US website with online videos and downloadable references (accessible via PC, tablet or phone)
If you are interested in this programme, please do not hesitate to contact me for a no-obligation meeting to discuss your needs and expectations.
The rates
Rates
"Overcome Programme
Stress and anxiety management workshops
360€
6 weeks,
2 hours per week
Minimum 6 people registered
Individual consultation
75 minutes
75€
Package of 3 consultations
3 X 75'
210€ instead of 225€.
2022 Elisabeth Rivasseau - Stress and anxiety management
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