Often, crying during yoga takes a practitioner by surprise. However, yoga can potentially uncover deep emotions or traumas that have been buried, hidden, or otherwise obscured.
Emotional Health Awareness Day (EHAD) is held on the 24th of February 2024. Biochemistry explains how emotions share real biochemical links with your nervous, endocrine, immune, and digestive systems.
Suppressing emotions has a physiological impact on the body, avoid it.
The Link Between Emotional Release And Yoga
One reason emotional release happens so often in yoga is that a yoga practice encompasses three aspects: the physical, mental, and emotional. It wakes us up on all these levels.
Another reason such release occurs so frequently in yoga is that yoga prepares your mind and body for it. It can move you toward a position of strength from which you can accept, unpack, and deal with past trauma or powerful emotions.
Finally, release can occur when we are in the moment. When we are not projecting ourselves into the future or worrying about the past, we can be, completely connected to the present. Turning down the noise of our minds and being present for a moment is powerful.
For all these reasons, crying during yoga is common. Some people use yoga specifically to trigger an emotional release.
If you want to release those emotional blocks, try practicing yoga and meditation. Sitting in uncomfortable yoga postures and finding stillness within them offers the entire body a chance to release emotional blockages, stagnant energy, and lingering tension. It’s a beautiful act of self-care, and we deserve that care.
Yoga techniques for emotional release include:
- Inward focus (Pratyahara)
- Focus on the breath (Pranayama)
- Vocalization
- Specific asanas