Coaching practices for Mindful Yoga Mbsr

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  • Even when I stretch I turn it into something to win at, pushing past where my body wants to stop
  • Sitting still to meditate just hands my mind a stage to spiral on, but when I’m moving slowly I can actually feel my body
  • I calm down for a minute with my eyes closed, but the second I open them and step back into the room I snap right back into the same tight, tunnel-visioned reactivity
  • Whenever I try to be present I end up grading myself
  • I carry stress as a clenched jaw, tight shoulders, a knot in my stomach all day, and I only ever notice it once it’s pain

Practices that may help

  1. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
    MBSR is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s structured 8-week program that trains present-moment, non-judgmental attention through the body scan, mindful breathing, and mindful movement. Of the popular-psychology approaches to stress, it is among the best supported: multiple randomized trials and meta-analyses find MBSR produces moderate reductions in stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
  2. Mindful movement
    Bring full, present attention to slow stretches and movements, sensing the body from the inside.
    Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
  3. Mindful movement: yoga and walking as body-awareness practices
    Use slow, intentional movement to practice bringing full attention to the body without goals.
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
  4. Expand: widen awareness back to body and situation
    After the breath anchor, expand attention outward to include the whole body and the surrounding moment.
    The Three-Minute Breathing Space
  5. The attitudes of mindfulness
    Cultivate the inner stances — non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, acceptance, letting go — that make attention healing rather than harsh.
    Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
  6. The body scan
    Move attention slowly through the body, region by region, noticing sensation without trying to change it.
    Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
  7. Informal everyday mindfulness
    Bring full attention to one routine daily activity — eating, washing dishes, walking — as a practice.
    Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
  8. The three-minute breathing space
    A short, three-step mini-practice to step out of autopilot in the middle of a stressful day.
    Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
  9. The body scan
    Systematically move attention through the body, noticing sensations without trying to change them.
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
  10. Titrate: start with shorter, shallower practice and increase slowly
    Build mindfulness tolerance incrementally — brief and externally anchored before deep and sustained.
    Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Made Practical

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