everyone, welcome to Ekhart Yoga, my name is Esther

I'd like to talk to you a little bit about depression and feeling low

which we all know

we all get it now and then, some a little bit worse then others

and how yoga can help you when you go through that.

so

when you're depressed your energy is stuck and

if you imagine your system as an energy system which it is

than things come in should move through and come out and

once something doesn't feel good or we're in a low mood for too long

something comes in it gets stuckg and it doesn't move out so thats where yoga

can be very helpful is to get sti energy moving and to get you moving

because you get into this place where you don't do anything anymore and i think

you will all recognized that when you have been there been there

so

first of all i would recommend to move your body to get the energy

flowing so don't be too passive

keep going

and then i would recommend to do a passive back bent or something to open the whole

chest area

and then i would recommend to meditate and to sit with whatever comes up

when you meditate you create a holding space for whatever is

happening

to you at a moment' and you create distance, instead of it happening to you

you sort of

observe it happening to, it just happens

and that away again taking that distance also gives

opening for things to move along when you're ready and and when you're done with them

so

these three things

get the energy moving

do a passive backbend, do a meditation

will be helpful. I made a video about that and you can click here it's about

fifteen minute a routine that takes you true all of those three things so you can

learn to do that for yourself at home

the other thing of course is if your depression is severe

and

you've tried a lot of things and you're really stuck, you need tot find help

sometimes you need someone to hold that space for you, not yourself ok

and it's really important just get out there and find the help you need, we all

almost need to go to that once in our life's too just find someone to hold the

space for us so we can move safely through whatever we need to move through

and that's really what I what i wish for you that's needed that you have the courage

to reach out and ask for help

in the meantime

do the sequence

on the video the longer video and get the help you need when you need to and I hope this is helpful

for you, namaste