Ease Anger:
Moving the Wood Element
Wood-element practices clarify and detoxify your body-mind — equipping you with adaptable flexibility on the path of passionate plans and decisive actions unique to your soul’s purpose.
You’ll benefit from wood element practices if you experience any of the below:
Bodymind Imbalances
- Tendencies of intolerance, impatience, frustration, irritability, or anger
- Experience emotional rollercoasters
- Prone to patterns of comparison, competition, or jealousy
- Feel tired, uninspired, angry or irritable without drugs, alcohol, caffeine, or sugars
- Are drawn to addictive thoughts and behaviors
- Dry or tired eyes and/or blurred, sensitive, or weak vision
- Temporal headaches, migraines, or tinnitus
- Tension in muscles and tendons, weak or stiff joints, tired or restless limbs
- Stiff shoulders and/or neck
- Painful breathing into side ribs, lower back or pelvic floor
- PMS or pain in reproductive organs
- Poor hip flexibility, sciatica, difficulty twisting, or pain in sides or ribs
Relational & Lifestyle Imbalances
- Express impatience, frustration, anger or irritation through hostility, shouting, or violence
- Struggle expressing anger or disagreement that can stagnate into resentment or bitterness
- Attempt to control self or others through manipulation like flattery, criticism, or bossiness
- Rely on a judgmental mind, labeling reality as good or bad, right or wrong, etc.
- Arrogance and/or rigid beliefs
- Lack flexibility in plans and/or struggle to create or adhere to plans
- Difficulty connecting with purpose, passion, dreams, making decisions and taking action and/or workaholic
Wood element practices address the liver and gallbladder meridians in the physical and mental-emotional bodies and focus on toning the inner thighs, inner and outer hips, neck, shoulders, and the entire outside line of the body.
This releases toxicity, anger, irritability, impatience, and frustration in your physical, mental, and emotional bodies — aligning your vision and dreams, plans and actions with your soul’s purpose.
Which Elements & Meridians Hold the Key to Your Holistic Liberation?
Take this free quiz to discover which of the 5 elements and 12 meridians best align with your unique health challenges and lifestyle.
Rooted in ancient Chinese medicine, this personalized guide reveals how your body, mind, and emotions are interconnected — helping you deepen your care and connection with your body, intuition, and your life purpose.
Jyllin’s presence and instruction is so wonderfully compassionate, clear and wise. She weaves extensive knowledge and a lifetime of personal experimentation and training into accessible, highly effective practices, guided by the elements.
The wood element is deeply transformative. Jyllin’s beautiful scripts and body-based sequences guided me beyond my habitual limited thinking and helped me release anger and stuckness, opening space for calmness and a connection to vital energy.
If you are struggling with energies you feel like you can’t work through, yearning for peace in your life, try practicing with Jyllin. It is truly liberatory.
How We Support the Wood Element in Holistic Liberation
Align Your Mind
EFT Tapping for the Wood Element
Release built-up frustration, resentment, and indecision by rewiring limited internal beliefs and emotional patterns — empowering vision, decisions, creative action, and alignment in life.
Transform Your Lifestyle
Wood Element Health & Habit Coaching
Establish grounding, nourishing routines matching the wood element’s need for movement, growth, and emotional flow — supporting healthy detoxification, hormonal balance, and long-term vision.
Free Your Body-Mind
Yoga for the Wood Element
Activate and stretch the liver & gallbladder meridians with targeted yin and yang yoga — freeing stuck tension in the hips, inner thighs, side body, and shoulders — restoring your ability to move forward with strength and flexibility.
If you feel a spark of recognition — or even a longing — as you learn about this element, you’re not alone. Each of the five elements carries gifts, challenges, and deep wisdom about how we relate to ourselves and the world.
Inside my Holistic Liberation Program, I guide you to work with your dominant elements through embodied practices, nervous system healing, meridan-based yoga, and emotional release techniques.
This is where true transformation happens — not just learning about your nature, but experiencing what it means to live in alignment with it.
Moving the Wood Element:
Your Role within the Whole
Modern world creation means rapid at all cost and competing in a capitalist system in which we compare ourselves to those we deem our competitors.
We lose touch with the intrinsic creative process of daily life in this capital-driven game, seeing creation solely for the sake of income, or status and prestige that’s derived through comparison… and inequality.
This path is inherently shallow and requires aggressive force to tread. The result is a loss of genuine creativity, looking like streets lined with stores selling the same products and shelves stocked with 50 kinds of the same thing.
Yet producers continue expanding their menu of similar options that feed an epidemic of decision fatigue, jealous competition, and anger from trudging a path of inauthentic creation.
The remedy is first to respect the deep-seeded role of the water element’s quiet restoration for a relaxed nervous system, and the earth element to ground us into our bodies and into the earth, allowing the mind to rest. Within this stability, and within the depths of our unique essence, we experience our soul.
The liver can then dream her soul’s dream. The gallbladder can plan and take decisive action necessary to manifest that vision, and from the depths of water and stability of earth, we know that the dream comes from our own soul, and that our actions are clear and direct in creation on our soul’s journey.
So we don’t get caught up in a rat race of stressful comparison that narrows our vision and creates rigidity in our body and mind.
So this inflexibility doesn’t hold us in patterns of impatience, frustration, and toxic judgment of ourselves and others from following a path that we can sense isn’t our own.
So we don’t lose ourselves to aggression, manipulation, and arrogant intolerance from this enforced path that attempts to control our true selves.
So we don’t get stuck in patterns of chronic anger and even rage because of years and generations of resentment boiling over from the betrayal of our soul’s calling.
Instead we see clearly. We dream our unique dream. We’re innovative and deeply creative — with our food, bodies, thoughts, movement, “work” and our words — and our actions root from seamless motivation and decisive action that stem from soul-based inspiration.
We rest into the natural unfolding of time and develop the wisdom of patience. We trust our decisions and the aligned actions we take. We balance ourselves between adaptability, flexibility, and steadfast purpose in manifesting our vision.
We move with the prolific force that is the wood element: the energy of spring that births forth each life one-of-a-kind.
And together we create a new world for ourselves, for each other, for our planet.
What is Wood Element Yang Yoga?
Wood Element Yang Yoga utilizes active yoga postures from Hatha Yoga that address the liver and gallbladder meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yang is energizing and strengthening.
Wood Element Yang Yoga is recommended for advanced beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through the spring months
- When moving through a period of detoxification, lack of passion or purpose, indecision, or general inability to plan or take action
- Anytime of year if struggling with addiction or moving away from addictive behaviors, chronic anger, irritability, frustration, or resentment, chronic headaches, eye or vision difficulties, PMS or pain in reproductive organs, general muscular tension, tightness/stiffness or pain in hips, shoulders, side body, or neck
What is Wood Element Yin Yoga?
Wood Element Yin Yoga utilizes supported, passive yoga postures from Yin Yoga that address the liver and gallbladder meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yin is restorative and relaxing.
Wood Element Yin Yoga is recommended for complete beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through spring months
- When moving through a period of detoxification, lack of passion or purpose, indecision, or general inability to plan or take action
- Anytime of year if struggling with addiction or moving away from addictive behaviors, chronic anger, irritability, frustration, or resentment, chronic headaches, eye or vision difficulties, PMS or pain in reproductive organs, general muscular tension, tightness/stiffness or pain in hips, shoulders, side body, or neck
What is Wood Element EFT Tapping?
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), or tapping, is an evidence-based method that integrates aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy with gentle acupressure on specific Acupuncture points to help release mental-emotional patterns stuck in the body.
For the Wood Element, EFT supports:
- Releasing frustration, resentment, and repressed anger
- Move through indecision, tension, or “stuck” energy
- Reclaim healthy boundaries and confident direction
What is Wood Element Nutrition & Herbal Guidance?
in Traditional Chinese Medicine, each element relates to specific organs and dietary needs. For Wood, that includes liver-loving foods, sour flavors, and gentle detoxification.
Guidance includes:
- Supportive foods and herbs for spring and liver/gallbladder energy
- Tips for emotional-eating patterns tied to frustration or rigidity
- Seasonal transitions and nourishment practices
We explore this further in the Health & Habit Coaching tier of Holistic Liberation.
I'm new to yoga. Are these practices for me?
While Yang Yoga may be more appropriate for advanced beginners up — depending on your current health and background — if you’re a complete beginner you can give it a try and see if you want to stick with it. You will also get stronger as you utilize the other Holistic Liberation practices. They will prime you for the Yang Yoga!
Yin Yoga is for complete beginners up, so yes, practice Yin!
I'm experienced in yoga. Are these practices for me?
Wood Element Yin & Yang Yoga practices specifically tone the inner thighs, hips, shoulders, and the side body. Neither is made for exercise per say or practicing advanced postures (although they may be provided as options). Holistic Liberation practices aim for daily or as consistent-as-possible practice — so you can both deeply strengthen and restore.
