Your emotions are your inner guidance system. They alone will let you
know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health
or in an environment of biochemical distress. Understanding how your
thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in
your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is healthenhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth.
—CH RISTIANE NORTH RUP, M.D.

WHAT IS EMOTIONAL YOGA?

Emotional Yoga is a gathering of Viniyoga, Ayurveda, mind-body medicine, and other
systems of treatment I have experienced. My teachers and mentors in the fields of yoga,
dance, spirituality, and medicine have inspired the fundamental concepts that form the
foundation of this book. Their insights have provided me with an integral vision of life,
working on all levels, including the internal and external in ourselves, in culture, and in
society. The premise of Emotional Yoga is to strive for this level of wholeness.

In Emotional Yoga, engaging the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual parts of you
is essential for creating health. While it’s great to be able to execute a complicated pose,
climb a mountain, or lift heavy weights, if you have an emotional weakness inside, no
matter how strong your muscles are, you remain weak. You find it difficult to function.
You collapse with a small emotional problem. Why does this happen? Perhaps it’s because
the power inside you is so rarely touched.
Yoga is more about inner strength than outer muscles. The whole intention of your yoga
practice is for you to be an integrated human being in all ways, not to gain muscular
prowess, do a lot of postures, or become a gymnast or human pretzel.

What really counts is what’s going on in your life right now. How are you feeling? How
is your sense of well-being? How are your relationships? If you easily become agitated,
something inside is trying to tell you something. If you are emotionally balanced, you
become more tolerant and your immune system is strengthened.
To be a functional member of society and enjoy healthy relationships, you must have a
certain amount of emotional stability. At each level of your life there will be stress—
physical, emotional, financial, romantic. The practice of yoga helps you deal with these
stresses and become a more stable human being. It protects your health, maintains your
emotional balance, and sustains your life.
Here, the practices of yoga aren’t necessarily postures. Nor are they onetime answers to
your problems. They are a lifetime of possibilities for dealing with your personal needs.
They allow you to know yourself, help you to understand your emotions, and urge you to
grow.

The practices of Emotional Yoga come in several forms—emotional inquiries, selfobservations, physical exercises, breathing techniques, meditations, rituals, and healing
sounds—all considered equal in helping you along your emotional path.
Emotional Yoga offers you an opportunity to:

Take responsibility in shaping who you are and what you feel.

See your emotional experiences as feelings and moods, rather than “how things are.”

Realize that you are not responsible for emotions that arise but that you are

responsible for staying in a mood.

Open yourself to the possibility of healing troubling or challenging emotions.

Change your attitudes and beliefs.

Use your body to help shift your emotional state.

Understand how your emotions can help you to develop character, resoluteness,sensitivity, and wisdom.

Grow spiritually and attune yourself to the greater world around you.

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