Relieve Grief:
Refining the Metal Element
Metal element practices cultivate your capacity to let life in and let life go — refining your sense of Self and soul for a richer experience of inspiration, awareness, and acceptance.
You’ll benefit from metal element practices if you experience any of the below:
Bodymind Imbalances
- Tendency to feel disconnected, isolated, or lonely
- Prone to feeling bored, uninspired, apathetic, hopeless, or pessimistic
- Experience prolonged grief, sadness, or depression
- Lacking ability to let go mentally (rigid beliefs), emotionally (past relationships, conversations), physically (constipation, difficulty exhaling)
- Feelings of worthlessness and deep insecurity
- Prone to negativity or cynical, stuck, or stubborn beliefs and behavior
- Hoarding things, thoughts, emotions, or memories
Physical Imbalances
- Diarrhea, constipation, IBS, bloating, or flatulence
- Sinus problems or nasal problems
- Prone to colds
- Skin problems, psoriasis, eczema, or dry skin
- Body, breath or foot odor
- Sighing, shallow or difficult breathing, Asthma, or Bronchitis
- Pale skin
- Mucous or dryness in your body
Metal element practices address the lung and colon meridians in the physical and mental-emotional bodies and focus on toning the chest, shoulders, abdomen and lungs.
This releases grief, apathy, insecurity, and loneliness — so you feel inspired and connected with the inherent worth in your essence and true Self as a vital part of the universe.
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.
I have learned a lot of important stuff from Jyllin and have developed a solid trust in her many years of study and practice, but nothing has been as quickly helpful for the complexities of grief as her metal element practices.
There was a significant decrease in my distress level after several days of tapping, meditation, and short, targeted yoga practices. I did these practices daily for 5 weeks. Now I continue to do the tapping for Jyllin’s profound understanding of grief, and I often fall asleep after the meditation as Jyllin’s quiet confidence comes through.
I am partial to yin yoga and found the opening from the yin practice both physical and emotional that developed to be significant and of great relief!! My anxiety is now at a multi-year low and I’m feeling markedly calmer with much less rumination.
Sadly, nothing can reverse time or the heartbreaks of this life, but I am learning how to live my life with so much more ease and drastically reduced anxiety. I only wish this knowledge was widely known, as so much human suffering could be remediated so easily.
How We Support the Metal Element in Holistic Liberation
Align Your Mind
EFT Tapping for the Metal Element
Release grief, perfectionism, and the need to control or perform. Tapping helps you let go, connect with your breath, and access clarity and self-worth.
Transform Your Lifestyle
Metal Element Health & Habit Coaching
Support immunity, breath, and digestion through rituals of release. We create space — physically and emotionally — to invite in what truly nourishes.
Free Your Body-Mind
Yoga for the Metal Element
Breathe deeply into yin and yang practices that open th elungs and large intestine meridians. Movement clears stagnation, supports detoxification, and restores inner spaciousness.
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.
Refining the Metal Element:
Your Role within the Whole
The journey of living and expressing your “authentic” Self — indeed the Self with a capital S that is also soul and source — is walking a path of releasing all that you are not. The path of self-discovery is as much learning as it is unlearning. It is accepting the inevitability of change and letting go.
Letting go of past iterations of Self. Letting go of constricting social norms. Letting go of old identities and activities that once fulfilled but no longer do. Letting go of beliefs, behaviors, and social systems formed by trauma within this lifetime and trauma handed to us from past generations.
When unable to let go or in fear of letting life in, we hold ourselves separate from our true essence, soul, God, universe, source. We then continue through the five phases divided from our essence — maybe taking creative and decisive action, perhaps surrounded in relationship. Yet we may feel empty, angry, stressed, sad, or worried… because all of that manifestation isn’t aligned with who we really are.
(Un)consciously holding ourselves, and together the collective, in outdated patterns.
This separation from Self — and ultimately from life itself — creates a sense of isolation, loneliness, and profound insecurity that relies on external validation for an illusion of worthiness derived from income, status, identity, profession, possessions, or relationships.
Letting life in and letting go is the only way to discover the depths of who we truly are. Through the cycle of each day, each year, and season of life, we create, bear fruit, harvest, and return to the autumn phase that is the metal element: gleaning meaning and growth from the process and discarding identities, thoughts, beliefs, habits, belongings, relationships — emptying the unnecessary cache of our bodymind and life — excavating an even deeper expression of our true essence.
Alchemizing and refining the experience of Self.
This is the natural cycle of life. This is the return, and allowance, of the death of ourselves and what has been because in the embrace of death, we create space for new.
The deeper our exhale, the deeper our inhale. The more capacity for breathing, the more space for the beauty of life to fulfill us. The more thoroughly the colon releases toxic waste matter, the more room for it to accept nutrients that nourish the rest of the body.
We only experience as profound joy, love, and fulfillment as we welcome the full range of emotions:
The sorrow felt in the loss of that and those we’ve loved — because we have the courage to love deeply. The grief in letting go of relationships, jobs, foods or drinks that once suited us — because we have the courage to face the unknown.
We create space for ourselves to take new form that’s aligned with deeper discovery of Self and conscious creation within the ever-changing world.
And in embracing the depths of Self, discovered through the process of letting go, we create the space to let life in full embrace of our true Self and each other that’s naturally, and inherently, aligned with our planet.
What is Metal Element Yang Yoga?
Metal Element Yang Yoga utilizes active yoga postures from Hatha Yoga that address the lung and colon meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yang is energizing and strengthening.
Metal Element Yang Yoga is recommended for advanced beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through autumn months
- When moving through a period of loss, lack of inspiration or connection to Self or others, or desiring a deeper sense of Self and soul
- Anytime of year if struggling with chronic grief, hopelessness, insecurity, isolation, loneliness, negativity, an inability to let go of things, thoughts, emotions, or the past, or any physical health problems with the respiratory system or colon
What is Metal Element Yin Yoga?
Metal Element Yin Yoga utilizes supported, passive yoga postures from Yin Yoga that address the lung and colon meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yin is restorative and relaxing.
Metal Element Yin Yoga is recommended for complete beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through autumn months
- When moving through a period of loss, lack of inspiration or connection to Self or others, or desiring a deeper sense of Self and soul
- Anytime of year if struggling with chronic grief, hopelessness, insecurity, isolation, loneliness, negativity, an inability to let go of things, thoughts, emotions, or the past, or any physical health problems with the respiratory system or colon
What is Metal 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 Metal Element, EFT supports:
- Processing grief, loss, and long-held sadness
- Letting go of perfectionism or harsh inner criticism
- Reconnection with your breath, self-worth, and capacity to release
What is Metal Element Nutrition & Herbal Guidance?
in Traditional Chinese Medicine, each element relates to specific organs and dietary needs. The Water Element supports the lungs and large intestine, helping us release what no longer serves.
Guidance includes:
- Foods and herbs that clear the lungs, support immunity, and ease grief
- Dryness, constipation, and emotional holding patterns
- Practices for autumn and inward reflection 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?
Metal Element Yin & Yang Yoga practices specifically tone the chest, shoulders, abdomen, and lungs. 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.
