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Yoga is a self-empowering practice with great potential to support grounding and safety. We can have a nurturing body experience through simple movements, befriend our sensations, become aware of the breath and thereby reconnect with ourselves and our surroundings.

Our posture reflects our inner attitude. You could also say that our emotional state is expressed in our posture. We have all repeatedly perceived and are aware that the separation of mind and body is outdated. Yoga and other bodywork concepts have long since concluded, as has modern neuroscience and its related fields, that our bodies do not exist independently of our emotions and our mental processes. So why, I ask myself and many of my clients in practice, do we hold ourselves so poorly?

In everyday life, we need our hands to grasp ourselves and our environment. They use large parts of our cerebral cortex and are closely connected to our senses. Feeling and touching temperature, surface texture, shape and consistency enable us to grasp and categorize.