Grief isn’t limited to the loss of a person or a life we can no longer return to.
It can also accompany healing, change, endings, and the process of becoming someone new.
This gentle 20-minute somatic yin yoga practice offers space to feel grief and sadness without needing to fix, explain, or move beyond them. Working primarily with the lung and large intestine meridians, the practice invites softening, presence, and gentle release.
Why This Practice Helps
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the lung and large intestine meridians are closely associated with grief, sadness, and the process of letting go.
Grief can be felt physically as heaviness, constriction, shallow breathing, tension, or a sense of holding in the chest and upper body. Rather than asking these sensations to disappear, this practice creates space to meet them with care.
The slow pace of yin yoga allows the body to soften gradually. Gentle attention to breath and sensation can help you stay present with emotion without needing to push it away or become overwhelmed by it.
Follow the 20-min somatic yin practice below:
After your practice:
You may feel softer, quieter, or more grounded. You may also notice that the grief is still there.
That doesn’t mean the practice hasn’t worked. Grief doesn’t always need to disappear. Sometimes what changes is our capacity to be with it.
A little more space. A little less resistance. A little more room to breathe.
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