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Join me for Yoga. Move your body for Mental wellness

8 Nov 2025 · 4 min

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In this informal, upbeat yoga session the instructor guides participants through a series of playful yet purposeful movements aimed at releasing stress and enhancing self‑regulation. The session opens with a detailed demonstration of the Lion Pose – squatting with fists on the hips, inhaling, then exhaling while stretching the hands toward the knees, looking at the nose, and sticking out the tongue to expel tension. After the pose, participants shake their bodies to reset energy. The instructor then introduces a partner exercise: maintaining hands on the hips, breathing together, and gazing into each other’s eyes, noting that the person whose eyes move first is considered “lucky.” Throughout, the speaker emphasizes the immediate calming effect of these actions, suggests using them during arguments or stressful moments, and imagines their use in schools. The tone is conversational, humorous, and encouraging, with a clear focus on practical, embodied techniques for mental wellness.

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His wife is frustrating. Always. This pose in yoga is called as lion pose, you know? Lion pose? Yes. Sweet. So she's standing here. You? You? No, but I got the mane. Yes, you do. Shake it. Yeah, I got one of those too. So after lion pose, we're going to shake our body, but now first lion pose. I will tell you first how to do it, and then we go. Okay. You should make fists. I'll be aligning with your hips. And just squat down like this, fist in hips. Now take a deep inhale, and while exhaling, stretch your hands towards your knees, open your hands, and just take your chest in front. Okay. So it becomes like this. Inhale, exhale, and then you should give as far as possible all the air out of your lungs. Okay, at the same time, toxic junk. Yeah, at the same time, try to look at your nose. Just here. You know, you may seem little bit odd like this, but it will give you very great feeling. Okay. At the same time, we want to do one thing that is very much important. Bring out our tongue. Ha ha ha! We should have just release whatsoever stress is in your body after. Okay. Very easy. Okay. So look at your nose, stick out your tongue, and Go. Okay. Okay. Let's do it. Ready? Exhale. Oh yeah, okay. That can take any stress away. When you are angry, when you are full of stress, go in some corner and do this for them. See how it helps. I would love to do this when I'm arguing with someone just in the middle of it. Hold on, hold on. I need a second. Huh? Yeah. What did you say? Try your breath with me. Stop talking. Perfect. Yes. Oh, I can't wait to hear about that. It will happen. Yeah, I'm feeling it too. So let's move. Take a deep breath in and out. Feels so good to give yourself permission. Yeah, and come up. I cannot look at the mirror. That's it. That's it. Too much. We should look in each other's eyes. Oh God. Okay. 2 and 2. Okay. Okay, ready? I'm ready. Here, you do it together. I love you. It's more interesting when you don't know the other person. Yeah. Okay, we're ready. Ready? Tell us what. Keep your hands in your hip. Take a deep breath in. Look at each other and stop. If that's not intimate, I don't know what is. It's perfect. You know, and then you just stare in each other's eyes. Whosoever moves their eyes, then she is the good luck girl. It changes your energy so quickly, right? It's like so good for self-regulation. Imagine they can do that in school. Oh, everyone stop. They'll love it. They would absolutely love it. That's really good. That's called another breath that will help you whenever you are