Pacify Fear:
Restoring the Water Element
Water-element practices cultivate deeper listening skills and trust with your body and intuition — empowering you with clarity and courage that’s aligned with your true essence, vitality, and purpose.
You’ll benefit from water element-focused practices if you experience any of the below:
- Struggling with anxiety, panic, phobias, or feeling nervous, wired and tired, or agitated
- Feeling restricted in expressing your truth, whether in agreement or disagreement
- Too often feeling unconfident and limited or hidden by shyness
- Avoiding challenges or creating necessary changes in fear of “failure” or imperfection
- Feeling defeated by remaining in all-too familiar outgrown and uncomfortable patterns
- Prone to feeling cold and can experience difficulty warming up
- Pain or tension anywhere in the pelvis or throughout the back body
- Experiencing patterns of fatigue, exhaustion, or overwhelm
Your water element is also imbalanced if you unconsciously try to control fear, expressed as:
- Being a workaholic or perfectionist
- Always thinking, doing, pushing, rushing, or neglecting essential rest and recuperation
- Having tendencies of being overly ambitious and focused on achievement
- Perhaps attempting to control yourself and/or others
- Potentially self-medicating tension with depressants like alcohol, weed, or sleeping aids
- Or self-medicating fatigue or exhaustion with stimulants like coffee, sugars, or adrenaline reliance (drama, conflict, physical danger, cheating, etc.)
Water element practices focus on toning the central nervous system, kidneys, adrenals, psoas, and the entire backline of the body.
This releases fear, anxiety, nervousness, stress, and tension in your physical, mental, and emotional bodies — deepening your trust, confidence, and sense of safety within yourself, your relationships, and the actions you take in the world.
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.
Thank you Jyllin for this wonderful set of tools! The guidance you provide helps me unwind, relax into whatever resistance I feel and let it melt away. I’ve felt stuck energies and even discomfort arise, but I breathe through it and following your guidance transmute it.
Even as a complete beginner to any type of movement, I am able to follow your yoga sessions comfortably and easily as well as your tapping sessions. You lead so effortlessly and it’s all so easy to understand — very fun to do, even when I’m feeling unmotivated.
Thanks to you I’m implementing more and more of these practices into my daily life. I love what you create and your energy. Very thankful! ❤
How We Support the Water Element in Holistic Liberation
Align Your Mind
EFT Tapping for the Water Element
Work with fear, exhaustion, and the need for control by cultivating courage and confidence. Tapping guides you toward deeper trust, stillness, and a stronger internal sense of safety and resiliance.
Transform Your Lifestyle
Water Element Health & Habit Coaching
Consistenly release stress from your nervous system, nourish your adrenals & vital energy, and support deep rest through seasonal alignment, slow rhythms, and restorative, reflective routines.
Free Your Body-Mind
Yoga for the Water Element
Unwind tension in the hips, inner thighs, and the entire back of your body with slow, grounding practices that support the hormonal & nervous systems, kidneys and bladder. These flows replenish vital energy and invite deep surrender.
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.
Restoring the Water Element:
Your Role within the Whole
Our essential energy reserves are often depleted in the modern world’s sense of immediacy, need for instant gratification, or demand to forge ahead at all cost by overworking, overthinking, and lacking rest and the natural rhythm of cyclical hibernation, each day, each menstrual cycle, each year.
This is the water element imbalanced. Envision waters that flood and destroy through excessive force, and water that dries up through human’s excessive, displaced use of it.
To remedy this depletion, begin by respecting your own energy reserves. Protect them, nourish them, and utilize the dark hours of each day, and the dark months of each year, to turn inward with more rest, more sleep, warming foods, and soft, quiet practices.
Because within the depth of our internal energy reserves lies our essence — the self that is stripped bare from ego-based identities and all of the ways we have learned to be but inherently are not.
Each of us has the power to release all that we are not — these ways we’ve inherited that ultimately keep the world functioning in harmful, outdated patterns.
We can release what we are not and discover our true essence by allowing deep rest, stillness, and quiet (like on snowfilled land). We can move inward and discover real listening: listening to the quiet voice within that knows what we need in bodymind and our part in life as a whole — through a felt sense that doesn’t require words.
It is from the quiet depths within that we discover our authentic selves and greater purpose, and when aligned with our true essense, we experience ease and flow.
Ease doesn’t equate inaction. Rather life—we as individuals, our communities, and the world at large—can naturally flow by tapping into the courage and will that spring forth when they are aligned with our unique passion in purpose.
And when living in alignment with our true selves and greater purpose, we free ourselves from insecurity and emptiness that come from losing our selves in the quest for constant action and achievement. We lose the false self that is based on oudated values and destructive habits of shame, guilt, neglect, and deep distrust of others, the world, and most importantly, distrust in Self.
When aligned with our essence and purpose, free from the past, we finally discover the peace of inner fulfillment.
And we live and share this peace with our world.
What is Water Element Yang Yoga?
Water Element Yang Yoga utilizes active yoga postures from Hatha Yoga that address the kidney and bladder meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yang is energizing and strengthening.
Water Element Yang Yoga is recommended for advanced beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through the winter months
- When moving through a particularly stressful experience or period of time, or when cultivating deeper restoration and nervous system regulation
- Anytime of year if struggling with chronic stress, anxiety, pain in the pelvis or back body, kidney or urinary difficulties, or hormonal imbalances
- For those experiencing fatigue or exhaustion, whether chronically or acutely: This practice will prevent any further stagnation and loss of strength while nourishing deeper energy reserves to slowly relieve fatigue or exhaustion. If any of it tires you out, however, utilize parts that feel appropriate and/or stick with the guided meditation, EFT, and nutritional/herbal guidelines until you get stronger.
What is Water Element Yin Yoga?
Water Element Yin Yoga utilizes supported, passive yoga postures from Yin Yoga that address the kidney and bladder meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yin is restorative and relaxing.
Water Element Yin Yoga is recommended for complete beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through the winter months
- When moving through a particularly stressful experience or period of time, or when cultivating deeper restoration and nervous system regulation
- Anytime of year if struggling with chronic stress, anxiety, pain in the pelvis or back body, kidney or urinary difficulties, or hormonal imbalances
- For those experiencing fatigue or exhaustion, whether chronically or acutely: This practice will prevent any further stagnation and loss of strength while nourishing deeper energy reserves to slowly relieve fatigue or exhaustion. If any of it tires you out, however, utilize parts that feel appropriate and/or stick with the guided meditation, EFT, and nutritional/herbal guidelines until you get stronger.
What is Water 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 Water Element, EFT supports:
- Working with fear, exhaustion, and trust issues
- Healing from burnout, trauma patterns, or hyper-vigilance
- Building inner resiliance, rest, and a deep sense of safety
What is Water Element Nutrition & Herbal Guidance?
in Traditional Chinese Medicine, each element relates to specific organs and dietary needs. The Water Element governs the kidneys and bladder, and is linked to deep rest, vital energy, and stress, anxiety, and fear.
Guidance includes:
- Foods and herbs to nourish your hormonal system, adrenals, bones, and winter energy
- Tips for chronic fatigue, sleep issues, and emotional burnout
- Ways to support fear, stillness, and trust through nourishment
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?
Water Element Yin & Yang Yoga practices specifically tone the nervous system, kidneys, adrenals, psoas, and backline of the 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.
