Whether you’re dealing with a recent loss this time a year—in the form of an ended relationship, divorce, death of a loved one or pet, losing a job or home, even infertility—or if old, unresolved grief starts bubbling up, a nurturing, heart-opening yoga practice may help you move through the holidays with greater ease and grace. Using yoga as a form of self-care can help you process grief and recharge your emotional batteries.

I personaly get lost in my yoga teachings in my personal practice. Is one of the few times i have no other thoughts in my head, no pain in my soul.  I allow myself to explore a different dimension where all disapears and just my breath, feelings of my body, a hapiness that fills up every corner of my being.  

Why Loss Can Physically Hurt
First, understanding why loss hurts can help you process it. Studies show, for example, that when you’re in the throes of romantic love, areas of your brain’s pleasure centers are overloaded with feel-good neurochemicals, including dopamine and oxytocin. But if you lose that love, those chemical levels plummet and stress hormones such as adrenaline, cortisol, and epinephrine flood in, bringing with them anxiety and sadness. That influx of stress hormones also launches your nervous system into fight-or-flight mode. As a result, extra blood flows to your muscles, which tense 
up for action, sometimes causing that tight, squeezing sensation in your chest. Losing a parent, pet, job, or anything you felt a strong attachment to can evoke a similar psychological, emotional, and stress response.

It has been a year since my mom passed away I woke up at 3 o clock at night feeling sick, my mimd racing feeling anxious. My subconscious knows what my conscious ind is blocking.  I feel i can’t escape it i need to allow it to follow its course to give permission to feel to grieve to cry just as the feeling of letting go finds me in Savasana at the end of the class. It is  so hard to connect to my feelings and fully allow them to teach me a lesson i refused to learn when my dad died and 17 years later when my mom passed. 

How Yoga Can Help Heal Heartbreak
There are many other reasons heartbreak 
literally hurts. But the good news is, like physical 
pain, heartache will fade, too. And that’s where yoga can prove transformative—yoga practices have been shown to effectively treat the stress and depression that can be associated with any kind of loss. In fact, a growing body of research shows that asana and pranayama can improve your mood and soothe your nerves so that you can be happier and calmer under pressure, and therefore more resilient during times of grief. So, taking time out for self-care during the hustle and bustle of the holidays can pay off. By devoting even 15 minutes a day to yoga, you can free up some of your physical and emotional energy and be more open to the joy of the season.
Corn, for example, knows firsthand how yoga can help you recover. For a year, her father, a man she describes as her best friend and mentor, died a slow and painful death from kidney cancer. “I can’t tell you how many times in the hospital room, watching my father die, I realized I was holding my breath. And I’d have to consciously stop, breathe, and feel,” she says. “After my father died, the grief was so overwhelming that I would become hyper-reactive or numb,” Corn recalls. “I realized you can’t just process heartbreak in your mind. You have to process it physically, too.” Corn designed a targeted grief-processing practice that she began doing every day to get her body grounded, release muscle tension, breathe out physical and emotional pain, and “keep the energy moving” to keep depression at bay. She adapted that practice for us on the following pages (See Yoga Sequence for a Healing Heart.) “If we trust the grieving process and give it time, eventually grief opens itself up to a level of love we’ve never known before,” she says.
Set an Opening Intention for Your Yoga-for-Heartbreak Practice

Sit tall, your hips higher than your knees. (This may require a blanket or cushion.) Gently close your eyes, bring your hands to Anjali Mudra, take 5 deep breaths, and then recite this intention:
“. May this practice reconnect me to my body, ground me in the here and now, and heal me from my grief. I ask for clarity and for the strength to let go of any limited beliefs that keep me resistant to change and unavailable to growth. Instead, may I open my heart, see beyond reason, accept without condition, and love without hesitation. May this practice be blessed. ”

If it was not for the practice of yoga and those around me i would be heartbroken and incapable to achieve a potential of a normal life.  Incapable to feel A hapiness within myself that we all strive for. Day by Day we struggle to move through life the best we can, centered, grounded with equinimity.  Allowing myself to let go in circumstaces out of my control is what Yoga is teaching me over and over aagin. Through mental pain i strive to Breath, realy Breath and feel light, feel whole so i can be better for those around me for what i give when i teach and what i feel when I go to sleep.

May we all feel one day complete and acknowledge that we possesed all we need within ourselves without restrictions or a price to be paid.