14-day Yoga for Anxiety Program with Zakiya
Join Zakiya for a guided journey exploring Yoga therapy for anxiety practices to support stress and anxiety symptoms like shallow breathing, feeling overwhelmed, and racing thoughts. This guided journey is for everyone, seasoned yogis and complete beginners.
This collection of practices has been created specifically for people experiencing anxiety and stress. It offers a range of evidence-based techniques and practices that may support the reduction and self-management of anxiety and stress symptoms. You can do them in order or dip in and out of your favourite practices.
The practices are suitable for people who require or prefer the use of a chair. This program should not replace any other medication or practices you are doing to support your mental health.
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Intro to 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 3 Min
Welcome to 14-days of anxiety support with Zakiya - get a short intro to your journey ahead.
Join Zakiya for a guided journey exploring Yoga therapy for anxiety practices to support stress and anxiety symptoms like shallow breathing, feeling overwhelmed, and racing thoughts.
In this intro, Zaki...
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Day 1 of 14-Days Anxiety Support - 17 Min
Join Zakiya for a super gentle start to your journey with soothing sighs & self-nurturing practices.
Get comfy, have your journal and cushions close by and begin your anxiety support journey to finding a sense of safety in your mind, body and breath. This practice explores practices encouraging ...
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Day 2 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 13 Min
Join Zakiya to explore a calming breathing practice called Humming Bee Breath & gentle movement.
Conscious exhales support our bodies to move into rest and digest mode, and gentle movement can help us to feel connected to our physical body. This practice is seated. You can do this from a chair o...
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Day 3 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 17 Min
Join Zakiya to explore belly breathing and shoulder-releasing movement. Seated and standing options. In this practice, you'll be introduced to a breathing practice to help lengthen and strengthen your breath. You'll also explore movement to support releasing tension from your shoulders.
As alway...
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Day 4 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 9 Min
Join Zakiya to find comfort in a supportive self-nurturing posture called Child's pose. Grab some cushions, a blanket, and some warm clothes as you explore a supportive self-nurturing Restorative pose called child's pose. This posture can support our minds and bodies to feel calm and safe.
If yo...
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Day 5 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 15 Min
Join Zakiya for a grounding moving meditation to help you regulate your mind, body and breath. This grounding moving meditation supports you in regulating your nervous system helping you to feel balanced and calm. We'll start seated with an option to come to standing if this is available to you a...
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Day 6 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 10 Min
Join Zakiya for an intro to Coherent Breathing - a breathing practice to regulate your mind & body. Coherent breathing is a steady breath of six counts on the inhale and the exhale. You can do this to chimes. This stable breathing pattern helps your autonomic nervous system to find balance by act...
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Day 7 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 12 Min
Join Zakiya for a gentle, supported hip-opening posture called Bound Angle pose. We can hold tension in our pelvis, so this supported posture done either seated or on the floor can help us to release this space. Get comfy, and have your journal and cushions close by.
If you have any questions ...
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Day 8 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 16 Min
Join Zakiya to explore affirmations with movement to support you in creating a positive mindset. How we talk to ourselves can impact how we feel about ourselves, our sense of self-worth and our confidence levels. In this practice, you'll be introduced to some positive affirmations and be invited ...
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Day 9 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 15 Min
Join Zakiya for an energising breathing practice called Lion's breath. You'll start with some gentle movement to awaken your body. You'll then explore Lion's breath with the option to include some movement with it. When we roar like a lion, we release tension in our faces, boost our sense of self...
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Day 10 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 14 Min
Join Zakiya for a guided yoga nidra for deep rest and to support your connection to your body. Yoga nidras are sometimes called guided yogic sleep. This yoga nidra invites you to get comfy in any position that brings you ease. You'll be guided into a body awareness meditation to support you in fe...
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Day 11 of 14-days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 16 Min
Join Zakiya for a soothing practice exploring humming bee breath with mindful movement to feel calm. Making sounds on your exhales move us into rest and digest mode, and mindful movement helps you to feel connected to yourself. These two practices combined can support you to feel calmer and more ...
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Day 12 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 15 Min
Join Zakiya for a practice focused on gentle twists to release tension and support digestion health. Anxiety and stress can show up for us as irritable bowel syndrome, stomach aches and shoulder tension. Gentle twists can help you to release and make space in your body.
If you have any questions...
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Day 13 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 16 Min
Join Zakiya for an energising confidence-building practice exploring backbends. The way we position our bodies can affect our mood and self-worth. When you move into a backend, you open your heart space which is an energising expression and can feel empowering to do. You'll counter-balance this w...
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Day 14 of 14-Days of Anxiety Support with Zakiya - 18 Min
Join Zakiya for the final day of your journey to show yourself an abundance of love and care. In this final practice you'll go full circle and return to some of the soothing practices you did on day one while incorporating lots of new things along the way. Self-love can start with self-nurture an...