Somatic Yoga for Anxiety | Calming Exercises to Relax Your Nervous System

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2026年03月31日
This somatic yoga routine is designed to help calm anxiety and reconnect you with your body through gentle yoga and movement exercises.

In this video, Cathy Underwood, Yoga & Movement Therapist, guides you through a series of grounding yoga and movement exercises that can help release stress, relax the body and support emotional regulation.

These techniques focus on slow breathing, gentle movement and body awareness to help activate your body’s natural relaxation response.

You can practise these exercises whenever you feel anxious, overwhelmed or disconnected from your body.

What you'll learn in this video:
• Grounding breathing techniques to calm anxiety
• Somatic movements to release physical tension
• Standing postures to reconnect with your body
• Simple practices to regulate the nervous system

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00:00 Intro
01:09 Seated grounding breath
03:19 Lavender breathing and facial release
04:52 Vagul nerve massage
08:12 Shake it out
10:01 Cross-crawl knee lifts
11:19 Warrior pose
15:41 Tree pose
19:06 Outro

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