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50 min Yoga Practice for Anger, Yoga for Emotional Balance, Yoga with Dr. Melissa West 394

3,889 views · Published 28 July 2017 · 49:03 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Yoga with Melissa · 2017 · Howto & Style

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In this intermediate hatha yoga class we will return to exploring the emotion of anger through yoga postures. Anger can be a very scary emotion. It can be an emotion that we do not want to relate to whether we are experiencing it or whether we are watching somebody else express it. Anger is a very direct emotion. It is an emotion that puts is in connection with our present moment experience. All of our periphery experiences fade away and we have a kind of tunnel vision that takes over, we get locked into only what is happening now. We can no longer hear or see or sense anything else. Nothing is important except for what we are angry about. In this hatha yoga class we will reflect on our own experience of anger, the times we have experienced our own expression of it and when we have felt others express it. 

We will begin our hatha yoga practice in reclined bound angle pose to open to the experience of the emotion of anger. From there we will do some more challenging variations of lunge pose to put us in touch with fear, vulnerability, insecurity and our defenses. This intention will continue throughout the class as we practice poses like frog pose, variations on plank and side plank and upward facing dog. In standing we will transition between feeling solid and grounded and then not so solid and grounded from warrior one to humble warrior and goddess victory squat to humble horse. We will finish our class with half cow´s face forward fold and the abhaya mudra to reduce anxiety. 


Props: blocks, bolster, folded blanket or pillow

Asanas: Reclined Bound Angle Pose or Supta Baddha Konasana, Lunge Pose or Anjaneyasana, Frog Pose or Mandukasana , Warrior One Pose or Virabhadrasana One Pose to Humble Warrior, Goddess Victory Squat or Utkata Konasana to Humble Horse, Dolphin Pose or Ardha Pincha Mayurasana, Plank Pose or Kumbhakasana, Side Plank Vasisthasana, Upward Facing Dog or Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Ardha Gomukhasana or Half Cow´s Face Forward Fold, Savasana or Corpse Pose , Abhaya Mudra

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