Yoga for Highly Sensitive People: A Practice in Self-Love

It’s no secret that yoga can support highly sensitive people. A slow-paced, nurturing yoga practice can be just the medicine to calm an anxious nervous system and learn to befriend the most uncomfortable thoughts and feelings highly sensitive people often encounter. Today I want to share with you a yoga practice I put together to help you access qualities of calmness and compassion within yourself. 

But before you watch my yoga for highly sensitive people video, I want to offer a few tips to help ensure your yoga experience is supportive.

• First, start by giving yourself permission to adapt and/or skip postures in this video if they don’t feel right. You can simply breathe, take another posture, or give yourself a little shoulder massage. Then join back in when you’re ready.
• Remember that yoga above all is a practice of breathing and connecting to the self. The postures are there to bring you into the moment, and thereby, a place of connection.
• This practice uses a yoga mat, two blocks, and a bolster. If you don’t have blocks, you may have books or other items around your house that you can use. If you do not have a bolster, sometimes cushions or a thick, folded blanket will work as a substitute.
• Many parts of this practice can be done lying on the floor or in a bed. Other parts can be done using a chair. You can also check out this full chair yoga video I made a while back if getting up and down is difficult for you.
• Finally, feel free to comment below to let me know what you liked about the video, what you could use more of, or any parts that felt confusing to you. 

Enjoy yoga for highly sensitive people in my “Unsinkable Self-Love for HSPs” video.