Yoga with Addy

Ladies, Join Us Tomorrow!! 📣📣 Yoga in the Park | 9am| Chesapeake City Park | Cost: FREEEEEE!

PTSD Awareness ⁣
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🖤 During a stressful event, our mind and body kick into ‘fight or flight mode’ if we believe that our lives are in danger. Stress hormones are activated as we respond to the situation, and then those levels balance out as we begin to feel safe. This is a normal response. ⁣
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🖤 Here’s where it becomes chronic… If the reactions to that stress don’t go away or if we never begin to feel safe then our “flight or flight mode” never gets a chance to turn off. This is PTSD.⁣
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🖤 When stress is always present we can constantly feel under attack. ⁣
Long term activation of the stress response can cause imbalances in many of your body processes. This is how trauma gets stored in the body. ⁣
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🖤 Practicing yoga can help to alleviate symptoms and provide a pathway to healing by relieving the pressure through our bodies. ⁣
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🖤 Practicing slower movements, intentional breathing techniques, and mindfulness can help soothe a hyperactive nervous system. ⁣
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🖤 Beyond instant relief, the goal of yoga is to trace the origins of the trauma and learn to confront and release it. ⁣
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🖤 But you don’t have to practice yoga. There are so many other ways to balance stressful feelings. ⁣
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🖤 Listen to calming music, sing, dance, journal, meditate, take a bubble bath, talk to someone you trust, cook, go for a walk, work out, play an instrument… or anything else that brings you joy⁣
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🖤Unmanaged PTSD can cause people to experience overwhelming feelings ⁣
Immobilization, numbness, flashbacks avoidance, hopelessness, anxiety, chronic pain, hyper-alert, irritability, ⁣
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🖤 This can lead to substance abuse, employment, or relationship problems, depression. ⁣
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🖤 We all carry trauma. We all need a chance to release it…⁣
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🖤 If you are interested and learning more about how yoga practice could help manage I would love to share some more information with you. ⁣
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🖤 Join my Free Community Class every Saturday @ 7pm est.

Family. We need to stick together.

I’m hosting a free yoga class at 7pm EST

Let me know if you would like to join and I’ll send you a link ❤️