Coaching practices for Mindful Yoga Practice

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• My practice lives in a little window and the rest of the day
• When I’m that deeply relaxed I want to plant one quiet, true thing about who I’m trying to be
• 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
• Even when I stretch I turn it into something to win at, pushing past where my body wants to stop
• My mindfulness practice has narrowed down to just watching my breath and it’s gone a bit stale and flat

Practices that may help

1. Treat every act as an offering — however mundane
   The karma yoga practitioner does not divide life into sacred and secular — every act done with full attention is practice.
   Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
2. Set a calm intention (sankalpa)
   Hold a brief, positive intention during the relaxed state, then let it go.
   Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
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. Mindful movement
   Bring full, present attention to slow stretches and movements, sensing the body from the inside.
   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
5. Right mindfulness — the four foundations of awareness
   Practise systematic awareness of body, feeling-tones, mind states, and dharmas as the core of satipatthana.
   The Noble Eightfold Path as a Practical Life Framework
6. Informal everyday mindfulness
   Bring full attention to one routine daily activity — eating, washing dishes, walking — as a practice.
   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
7. Small glimpses, many times — the micro-dose delivery model
   Train non-dual awareness through many brief touches across the day rather than long sittings.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
8. Savasana and the relaxation response
   Lying completely still at the end of a yoga practice triggers the relaxation response — the physiological counterpart to the stress response.
   Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows
9. Continuous noting — extending the practice into daily activity
   Maintain a running background note on mental events throughout ordinary tasks, sustaining the observer stance informally.
   Noting Practice, Made Practical
10. Slow diaphragmatic yoga breathing
    The stress-reduction core of yoga is the long, slow exhale — not the postures.
    Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows

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