🌱 All Life is Yoga 🌱
Disclaim :
After a vaginal delivery
without epidural
without complication
without episiotomy nor stitches
This is not a medical advice
But a sharing of personal experience
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Allowing the breathing to be The guide of the movement Honoring the 3 jewels of yoga •Awareness •Breathing •Relaxation Surrendering to our inner capacity to cope and heal to ask and receive support Developing flexibility
between
Taking care and being taken care of
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Trusting
The body as the Knower
The breathing as the Doer
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Here the 2 first pictures show
contraction and expansion
The principle of PENDULATION*
Pendulation is the natural pulsation
between
states of expansion and contraction
in the nervous system
This is a basic principle of life,
seen in
the ebb and flow of the ocean tides,
the wings of birds opening and closing in flight
in the breathing
alternating inhalation and exhalation
A resilient nervous system
is one that can move back and forth
between alertness and calm
between action and rest,
without getting stuck at either extreme.
Pendulation introduces “resourced” states
into awareness
to help us develop confidence
in the ability of our nervous systems
to move between inverse states
We can then practice
moving back and forth
between more and less resourced states
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Here In the car, going to the hospital Experiencing a contraction every 3 minutes Noticing and enjoying the S P A C E between each one of them Pendulating Moving
from tension to release
Consciously
Guided by the breathing
… and that’s true, a wonderful sunset ✨
🌱 Between stimulus and reaction There is a space Here, choice can happen 🌱
*Pendulation is a key technique from Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) SE is a therapeutic approach that is informed by our biology and our inborn ability to heal from trauma Here an extract of one of his books in French: https://www.dunod.com/sites/default/files/atoms/files/9782729619183/Feuilletage.pdf