Yoga practices to ease coronavirus fears: breathing and meditation techniques that calm your emotional state
- Beyond flexibility, balance and strength, yoga can help quieten mental chatter and deepen spiritual awareness
- A yoga expert explains techniques in breath manipulation and balancing of the nervous system that help to quell fears and anxieties
It can be difficult to not feel anxiety and sometimes panic over the coronavirus outbreak, with the onslaught of updates on news and social media. But if we pause for a just a moment, we can discover ways to quieten the din and live at peace. Yoga offers another path, a fresh perspective with which to deal with events that are beyond our control.
I took my first yoga class more than 20 years ago on holiday in Hawaii when I worked in the finance industry. My business partner’s wife was going to the class and suggested we join. I thought it would be boring but, though I considered myself pretty fit, I found the asanas, or postures, rather challenging. My interest was piqued.
I discovered many aspects of yoga beyond the poses that enhance my quality of life, and share two of them here.
One of India’s most celebrated texts, the centuries-old Bhagavad Gita (“The Song of God”), is the story of a discussion between the warrior Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna.
