3 ways Hormone Yoga Therapy can help you manage change

Change normally brings about fear and anxiety. As our fear and anxiety levels rise, so do our levels of cortisol, our stress hormone. Cortisol has good intentions in that it prepares us for a fight, flight or freeze response. It's not intentionally causing our body distress, however, our cortisol levels can rise with any stressor, of which change can be one. It really doesn't matter how big or small that stressor is, our body reacts the same in preparation to deal with it.

How can we manage change?

Change is an inevitable part of life yet us humans do not always cope well with it - we like things to stay the same and stay familiar. Unfortunately, life just isn't like that. Therefore, we have to have coping strategies for the inevitable fluctuations of all things in life. Yoga and meditation can be a huge help in dealing with the feelings change brings about.

3 ways Hormone Yoga Therapy can help you cope with change

1. It teaches us to be present and in the moment - this helps us to stop worrying about the change that is currently happening for us or is about to happen. Instead, we spend quality time with our body experiencing what it is like to be moving, guiding the energy around our body to our glands and connecting not only to our muscles but the nervous and endocrine systems.

2. It contains dedicated time each practice to de-stress with anti-stress techniques - towards the end of the Hormone Yoga sequence, time is spent in yoga Nidra (a guided relaxation), with your breath using calming breathing techniques proven to calm the nervous system and practising anti-stress techniques. These techniques can be repetitions of mantras or moving meditations, all of which can help calm the whole body down.

3. Hormone Yoga allows us to learn something new. It's not like your regular yoga class, there are many elements to it that make it a complete and nourishing practice. Creating new neural pathways is possible at any age and Hormone Yoga allows you to do this. Creating new neural pathways helps us to change our habits and behaviours. So, if you tend to be a worrier, Hormone Yoga can help you to rewire your brain and build a more positive outlook on life. When we feel positive, we are more resilient to stress and anxiety that can be brought on by change.