🔼: [[🕯️ Movement Practices 👟]], [[👟 Strength Training]], [[👟 Balance Exercise]], [[👟 Stretching]], # Asana Practice [[On Tools, Skills, and Practices...]] Type: [[⭐️ Body]], [[🕯️ Grounding]], [[🕯️ Mindfulness]], [[🕯️ Breathwork 💨]] Use: [[🛠 Self-Soothing]], [[🕯️ Grounding]] When most westerners talk about yoga, they are almost always referring to Asana Practice (Hatha yoga). Asanas are a mind-body practice which invites us to reconnect with our body through movement. We bring mindful awareness to our movements and postures and coordinate them with our breath. This practice performs better than exercise when it comes to clinical illnesses, and we don't yet know why.[^1] Many of us think of the self as mostly in the brain, but [[🔑 Psyche and Soma are not separate|🔑 How we hold our body directly impacts our state of being]] ###### Types - [[👟 Trauma-Sensitive Yoga]] ###### Related - [[💡 Asana|Asanas]] - [[🛠 Dance]] - [[💡 Panchakosha Theory]] - [[🛠 Emotional Asanas]] - [[💡 Meditation Posture]] ###### Resources - [Yoga With Adriene](https://www.youtube.com/c/yogawithadriene) (probably the best known, but there are many) - [DoYogaWithMe](https://www.doyogawithme.com/) [^1]: [[📖 🟠 Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health]]