The COVID pandemic caused a collective trauma. How can we let go the trauma and fill up with the remembrance of all that is good and right and true? How may we transform the poison into precious song?

Yoga for Letting Go

Yoga asana is one way to release trauma held in the body. Moving the body in general is good for this, which is why humanity has always danced and stomped and shaken. Our bodies may be our unconscious minds, their intelligence historically underestimated in Western medicine.

Guided imagery is another tool for letting go. Using the mind’s active imagination, we may shake off what doesn’t belong to us, like a wet dog shaking the water off his back after a swim. Imagine being in a helicopter flying above the sea, and dropping out all that doesn’t belong to you into the ocean. It is in a suitcase ( biodegradable and reef-friendly). Just toss it out.

Yoga for Filling Up

Connecting with friends, family, forest, animals, sun, moon, stars and earth, is all yoga. Research shows that social support, exercise, gratitude, purpose, and altruism are keys to happiness.

Sounding meditation activates the parasympathetic nervous system and relaxation response. Nada yoga explores the chanting of mantras and specific primal sounds from ancient energetic and vibrational languages such as Sanskrit.