Unwind Worry:
Nourishing the Earth Element
Earth-element practices center you into your body and ground you into presence — empowering you with mental clarity and a sense of fulfillment that offers contentment in relationship with yourself and others.
You’ll benefit from earth element practices if you experience one extreme below or can move between extremes:
Bodymind Imbalances
- Prone to worry, overthinking, or obsessive thinking
- Scattered or hazy attention and/or poor memory
- Feel displaced from or have difficulty feeling your body
- Neglect your body of attention and care and/or experience an obsessive relationship with your body
- Feel a sense of lack, emptiness, unworthiness, or unfulfillment
Relational Imbalances
- Struggle finding balance amidst other people’s energy, actions, words
- Tend to lose your center through change and transitions in life
- Lack sympathy for self or others and withhold giving or receiving and/or
- Oversympathize with others and tend to overgive
- Excessive need for attention and sympathy often sought by over-complaining or exaggerating and/or
- Tendencies of feeling misunderstood and rejection of attention or sympathy
Physical & Lifestyle Imbalances
- Crave sugar(s), processed or high carb foods, and/or sweet drinks including alcohol
- Experience evident drops in energy from not eating or spikes in energy from eating
- Sensitive stomach and/or tendency to stomach pain or cramping
- Overly habitual or irregular routines (including eating, sleeping, or menstruation timing and flow)
- Poor digestion and absorption of nutrients
- Prone to bloating and excessive phlegm
- Tendency to think about food when not eating and/or lack appetite or desire to eat
- Eating while standing, doing other things, or rushed eating
Earth element practices address the spleen and stomach meridians in the physical and mental-emotional bodies and focus on toning the feet, legs, deep and superficial core muscles, and the entire frontline of the body.
This releases worry, obsessive thinking, and feelings of lack by stabilizing you into the center of your body and into the Earth — so you can feel whole, balanced, and content within embodied presence that earth element practices instill.
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 5-element practices have been an absolute game changer for me. Her mastery of EFT and yoga has heightened my intution and patience, and her precise explanations in the videos made learning effortless.
By delving into the anatomy and intricate connection between mind and body, Jyllin’s teachings have given me profound insights into my personal challenges. After immersing myself in this practice for only three weeks now, I can feel tangible transformation in both my physical and mental well-being.
This is truly a priceless endeavor. The benefits gained in terms of self awareness, physical well-being and optimism for the future are invaluable investments in myself. It’s a journey that pays dividends far beyond what words can express.
How We Support the Earth Element in Holistic Liberation
Align Your Mind
EFT Tapping for the Earth Element
Release overthinking, worry, and the need to care for others. EFT helps ground into your body and out of your mind, restoring your sense of enoughness and centeredness.
Transform Your Lifestyle
Earth Element Health & Habit Coaching
Stabilize your routines and stregnthen digestion with nourishing foods, earth-aligned practices, and supportive rituals. We focus on grounded habits that support resilience and mental-emotional ease.
Free Your Body-Mind
Yoga for the Earth Element
Use grounding flows and deep yin holds to support the stomach and spleen meridians. These practices build stability and help you come home to your center where you’re already whole.
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.
Nourishing the Earth Element:
Your Role within the Whole
The earth element is of the mother archetype, and in the age of distraction, and in humans’ continual depletion of Mother Earth, the earth element pleads for our attention.
She cries out in need, a real need from real hunger, when bodies increasingly consume non-foods that are incapable of nourishing her.
Her attention is scattered. Her food — whether real whole food or not — can struggle to move through the digestive system, let alone get transported throughout the rest of the body to cells capable of receiving the food’s nutrients.
We end up with humans fed but starving, malnourished despite consuming calories, concerned more about weight loss than the quality of the weight on the body.
Fat or thin, this superficial understanding of the body (akin to planting seeds in top soil that’s unable to bear fruit). Billions of dollars thrown at the perpetual emptiness, lack, and desperate neediness of the ill-fed body-mind.
Mono-cropping. Genetically modified foods. Our planet’s soil depleted. This is our predicament amidst the age of information in which the average person consumes 100,000 words every single day. In and out, what remains, what of that consumption nourishes?
When what we need is to be seen, heard, and understood. We long for connection and compassion.
This compassion can begin within by finding our center and grounding into this moment. We can internalize the mother by nourishing and caring for ourselves and taking radical action in slowing down enough to be present.
Present with body and present with food. Grounding into the nourishment of our body, the nourishment of our food, and feeling how Mother Earth is the ultimate provider of this nourishment.
As we stabilize into this nourishment, we can unwind the incessant looping thoughts, worries, obsessions, the constant running of the mind. We can stabilize into our center and remain grounded through transitions from season to season, day to day, and relationships with others and our own body-mind.
And in doing so, we regain agency in awareness and connection. We take back our power.
We as consumers create demand for supply. We can choose, one moment to the next. Choose to focus on sustainable care, and consumption, first for ourselves.
As part of our planet.
What is Earth Element Yang Yoga?
Earth Element Yang Yoga utilizes active yoga postures from Hatha Yoga that address the spleen and stomach meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yang is energizing and strengthening.
Earth Element Yang Yoga is recommended for advanced beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through late summer months and transitioning between seasons
- When moving through a period of time or experience of change or transition
- Anytime of year if struggling with eating disorders, obsessive thinking, chronic worry, hypo- or hyperglycemia, digestive problems, and issues arising from malabsorption of nutrients
What is Earth Element Yin Yoga?
Earth Element Yin Yoga utilizes supported, passive yoga postures from Yin Yoga that address the spleen and stomach meridians and their corresponding connective tissue pathways, organs, and muscle groups. Yin is restorative and relaxing.
Earth Element Yin Yoga is recommended for complete beginner to advanced yoga practitioners:
- Through late summer months and transitioning between seasons
- When moving through a period of time or experience of change or transition
- Anytime of year if struggling with eating disorders, obsessive thinking, chronic worry, hypo- or hyperglycemia, digestive problems, and issues arising from malabsorption of nutrients
What is Earth 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 Earth Element, EFT supports:
- Calming overthinking, worry, and cravings
- Addressing eating disorders, emotional eating or boundary-less caregiving
- Return to centeredness, nourishment, and inner stability
What is Earth Element Nutrition & Herbal Guidance?
in Traditional Chinese Medicine, each element relates to specific organs and dietary needs. The Earth Element governs digestion and nourishment—physically, mentally & emotionally.
Guidance includes:
- Grounding foods and herbs to support the spleen/stomach
- Support for sugar cravings, worry, and digestive sluggishness
- Late-summer transitions and how to find balance through rhythm and ritual
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 feet, legs, deep and superficial core muscles, and the entire frontline 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.
