Gii Nina The Stressed Out Yogi

Yoga Need Not Be a Ballache of a Workout!! I love using asana practice to bring myself back into my body. We can all get up in our heads sometimes, or completely dissipated and all over the place after too many coffees. Yesterday, I made the mistake of having a morning coffee right before a meeting with my business mentor… & me being me I just can’t say no to coffee. This led to a HUUGE increase in anxiety whilst I was at the gym…. TIME TO GO HOME! It’s the intricacies that we bring into our daily habits that can actually have quite a big effect in the long run. I love shifting my awareness into the souls of my feet and my hands when things seem a bit viscerally overwhelming. #Grounding #Mindfulness #BePresent #PresentMoment #AnxietyRelief #AnxietySupport #AnxietyTools #StressManagement #ReleaseAnxiety #Overthinking #AnxiousMind #AnxietyTips #CopingSkills

Our breath, is our life force energy. Our energy radiates outward from our Subtle Body Energy Points, our Chakras. When these are out of balance, our lives become out of balance, our health suffers, our relationships, our ability to function and cope. In Yogic Philosophy the Breath is the bridge between the physical realm and the mental and emotional realms. Research has shown that Pranayama practices can re-regulate and stabilise the nervous system. Bringing us back to a quiet place of equilibrium. Offering us space within the mind. Control over our own energy system, more grounded, rooted and less flactalised and frantic. Come and join me on my pre-recorded ‘Pranayama for Stress and Anxiety Workshop’ where I’ll guide you through 4X Yogic breathing techniques to help you re-regulate, sooth and calm the nervous system. With additional resources and work for you to delve into at your own pace. I’m currently sharing 2x discount codes for my Pranayama Workshop & January Online Yoga Classes. For just £20 you can have access to my workshop & a months worth of classes FOR FREE… Usually worth £210. Offer ends 24th December - Discount codes must be used by then. 🫶🏻🧘🏼‍♀️🙏 Love and Blessings, Gii Nina. #yogaforthenervoussystem #yogaforstressrelief #yogaforanxiety #traumasensitiveyoga #traumasensitiveyogapranayama #traumasensitivemindfulness #breathingtechniquesforanxiety #spiritualreels #yogareels #yogateacher #onlineyogateacher #pranayamaworkshop #onlinepranayamaworkshop

I think a lot of trauma psychology and neuropsychology research can make us feel quite helpless at times, perhaps convincing us that this is all permanent. We’re stuck like this, F**ked essentially. But that’s not true. Reality is in a constant state of flux, fluidity, change. Our current state is the result of our previous state, ways, set and setting & we can change the destiny of our future state by changing our behaviours, the way we speak to ourselves, our daily habits, who we surround ourselves with & our environment. The work is not magic, it’s constant effort, strain, sometimes boring. But well worth the rewards. 🌈 Blessings, Gii Nina. 🤓 #nothingispermanent #impermanence #suffering #dukkha #rewireyourbrain

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NOTHING IS PERMANENT! I promise! 🤞🙏 It all feels so permanent because it’s all consuming, completely absorbing & it feels like there’s no more space in the mind. But we can GRADUALLY, begin to detach from the traumatic imprints of the mind. Bit by bit, piece by piece. It’s not immoderate, because if it was there would be no point in anything ever and we’d all just be one big spacey, blob! Do the work & you will reap the benefits. 🙏🧘🏼‍♀️ You will reap the seeds you have sown. 🌱 #clingingtothoughts #attachmentandaversion #attachment #yogapsyhology #traumapsychology

Of course genetic sex difference in neurological development aren’t set in stone, or fixed. Personality & life style choices will also affect which conditions we develop later in life. However, research has found this so far. I’d also like to add that there’s no excuse for abuse BUT knowing this stuff can really help us to understand other people’s suffering more, their behaviour and how we can help them. AS WELL AS HELP OUR SELVES AND UNDERSTAND OURSELVES!! If you’re enjoying my introspective psychology videos, head to the link in my bio where you can sign up to my news letter & be the first to read my next piece of writing. ✍️ 👩‍🎓 Blessings, Gii Nina. 🫶🏻🙏🧘🏼‍♀️ #amydgala #traumapsychology #traumarecovery #traumasensitiveyoga #neuropsychologyoftrauma #academicreels #psychologyreels

Translation; Prati: opposite, against, return, or origin. Paksha: side” or aspect. Bhavanam (or Bhavana): cultivation, bringing into existence. = Cultivating the opposite side/thought). We may refer to this as, re-framing, or counter thoughts in CBT type practices. If you’re enjoying these videos please give them a like & a share. 🙏🫶🏻 Yoga classes link is in bio, with link to my academic & personal blog. 🥰 Blessings 🙏 #cultuvatingopposite #cognitivereframing #pratipakshabhavana #yogaforhealing #yogaforptsd

When content creation starts to get wild & spacey towards the end of the day 😂🙏 Thank you to all of my followers so far. 🫶🏻 If you’d like to join my online yoga classes beginning this January please head to the link in my bio. 🥰 Blessings, Gii Nina. 😘 #contentcreationjourney #yogacontentcreator #yogateacherlife #behindthescenes

I mean Duuh! But someone actually practiced this on me, assuming that it would help my negative ruminations and flashbacks. Unaware, of the full symptomology, history or diagnostic understanding. There is a lack of understanding out there in regards to the fact that some people think visually, and auditory. NO THIS IS NOT PSYCHOSIS. It’s a way the mind works. It can be of great benefit, creating dance routines in your head etc. But when you’re feeling ungrounded, not present, or split between the external and internal realities visualisation methods are probably a no go. & if your students are having intrusive thoughts these can manifest as unwanted disturbing images occurring in visual meditation methods. Stick to more grounding practices. 🙏 #meditationcontraindications #traumasensitiveyoga #yogaformentalhealth #yogacontraindications

Thank you so much to everyone is Bristol that has supported me so far. 🥹🫶🏻 The Person that bought me this didn’t even consciously know that I collect these note pads & to top it off this was the exact one that I wanted for travelling but the one I ordered was the wrong size. 🙏🫶🏻 Some people just know you. 🥹🧘🏼‍♀️ #feelinggrateful #iwillmissyou

YES, Meditation CAN BE BAD! The brains of those with CPTSD actually look different than those with PTSD, Our Insula’s have been shown to light up more. We are right there, with the traumas, processing them, visually there. If you have CPTSD/OCD/TDT This can make meditation difficult as we become addicted to the day dreaming state. Interoceptive meditation techniques may not be right for you because they are heady, interoceptive, introspective AND YOU’RE ALREADY DOING THIS IN EXCESS!!! Watch my next Video for more on this! Love & blessings, Gii Nina. #interoceptiveawareness #introspection #neuropsychologylearning #traumapsychology #emotionalawareness

To anyone who has made the conscious and powerful decision to practice trauma integration. Whether it be through psychotherapy, CBT, or yogic methods, or shamanic. If you are at the beginning of your journey, no matter what your age or level of trauma DON’T GIVE UP. I understand first hand that your brain is a total Ballache 🫠 If there’s anything The Eastern path teaches us is the humanity in all of us, the suffering and those ballache negative, volatile niggly thoughts and feelings. 🙏🫶🏻 From soul to soul, I understand. 🙏 Blessings, Gii Nina. 🧘🏼‍♀️😌🫶🏻 #traumaintegration #traumaintegrationwork #yogafortraumasurvivors #cptsdrecovery❤️‍🩹 #spiritualreels

Speaking to the soul, so we can love, honour and protect it. 🫶🏻🧘🏼‍♀️🙏 Our ego is designed to protect the soul. Through trauma the development of the ego can be affected. From a fractured ego, to under developed ego structures. Our minds can quite literally become a battlefield of its own. We need our ego’s to protect us, warn us and defend us FROM REAL HARM. Trauma leaves an imprint on The Soul & our nervous system, our bodies, our minds are hardwired in such a way that they will warn us if and when work needs to be done. It is the very same structures that go haywire after trauma that can be used to teach the soul love, to show it we can protect it and develop the behaviours to demonstrate we can honour the needs of our own soul. None of this stuff happens over night. It quite literally is a lifestyle that you need to choose if you’ve been through extreme and prolonged trauma and want to integrate. It may sound all ‘hooo ha’ but actually it’s a lot of study and a lot of work. Start really small, have a hissy fit because none of it works, keep giving up and trying again. Just through this process itself you’re developing the brain muscles of determination and will power. 💪 #soulwork #speakingtothesoul #psychodynamics #yogicpsychology #yogafortraumarecovery

Finding The Perfect Expression of The Pose - This may change day to day, week by week, or as the seasons change. You don’t always need to be able to maintain a strong Vinyasa practice 24/7, 7 days a week all year round. The neural networks of the brain actually strengthen with variety. This includes variety of movement, music, food etc. Having the awareness to ‘lean into’ what feels good for you in the moment is honouring your mind, body and soul and you will only be rewarded for that. 🙏 As opposed to forcing yourself into shapes that hurt your back, or comparing yourself to the person next to you who has a completely different shaped body & anatomy. We can apply all that we practice on the mat into our daily lives. 🙏🫶🏻🧘🏼‍♀️ If you’d like to practice with me online this January head to the link in my bio. 🔗 Classes start at just £8. 🥰 Love and blessings, Gii Nina. #honoringthebody #embodimentpractice #yogaembodiment #yogaasana #yogaclassonline

What NOT to do when your Yoga Teacher cues, ‘Find your truest expression of the pose’. This does NOT mean, ‘I want to do this so I’m going to force myself to do this’. YES EXPERIMENT = FUN 🤩 FORCE = PAIN 😭 & we can take this concept, these ideas into our daily lives. Remember what I was talking about earlier on in the week in regard to building healthier habits? If it doesn’t feel right, if it feels forced, if it hurts, remove it, walk away from it, or try something else that does feel good for you in the moment. 🙏 Maybe you can practice that specific variety or movement, socialisation, or food at a later date once you’ve built up your tolerance and practice. This is what we mean by YOUR full expression, it’s meeting your body and soul where you’re at NOW & then applying this to your daily life too. & essentially this is what it means to ‘Be embodied’. If you’d like to start your 2026 off practicing with me please head to the link in my bio. 🔗 🥰🫶🏻 Love and blessings, Gii Nina 🧘🏼‍♀️🙏🫶🏻 #beingembodied #whatisembodiedflowyoga #whatisembodiment #mindbodysoulconnection #developinginneryou #innerawareness

What is my Yoga teacher talking about? I can remember feeling quite confused about Yoga Asana Cues before I did my YTT. 🤸 It can feel quite contradictory to be told specific instructions of how to get into a pose. Only for your teacher to then suggests you, ‘Find the perfect expression’ of the pose. This is an invitation for you to explore where your body is at that day. For you to use the pose to its full capacity and explore moving, stretching, popping or deepening where it feels most comfortable for you to do so. 😌 Our guidance is a way of getting into the posture/asana creating a specific shape with the body that targets a certain area. For example in Pigeon pose we face the hips forward in order too target that area of the body but it doesn’t matter too much if your shin isn’t parallel. This flexibility can change over time. 🕰️ For me this area has become ‘less mobile’ over time & that’s okay. 👌 😌 #yogateachercues #yogateacherlanguage #onlineyogaclasses #whatismyyogateachersaying #claritywithwords

Projections & boundaries; As trauma survivors who are consciously integrating it’s important to listen to your inner being in these situations and be aware of what’s going on in the social dynamics. Is someone attempting to gain power and control over the room? Are they over powering or controlling the emotional environment? Maybe this comes from a place of needing to feel dominant or superior, being praised too much, or too little. It could be a need to feel needed, or a need to care for others because this makes them feel loved, it could be ignorance towards your situation, etc etc… Many, many reasons why people project onto individuals who are more traumatised than them. If you have a kind nature people will take advantage of this, it’s important to be boundaried with OURSELVES and others so we can protect our soul. 🙏 If you are enjoying my content and would like to work on your self awareness and self compassion, my online classes will be starting on 12/01/2026 with 45 minute slow flow & vinyasa flow classes starting at £8 & you’re invited to my evening classes of longer duration where we will go into deeper practice together. 🫶🏻🧘🏼‍♀️ Link is in bio 🔗 ⬆️💘 Love and blessings, Gii Nina. 🫶🏻🙏 #boundariesandprotection #kindnessandboundaries #selfawarenessjourney #traumaintegration #traumaawareness #yogafortraumasurvivors

Trauma Integration & projections; People tend to project onto people who are more traumatised than them because they’re meeting you at their own depth. They might expect you to be less integrated than them, or less aware of your traumas because they’re meeting themselves in you and haven’t developed this self knowledge yet. This can be super dangerous because as individuals who have mild-moderate traumas project their blind spots onto you a very toxic ego dynamic can occur. Whereby you are used for them to gain power and control over the social dynamics. This can actually stem from an unconscious knowing within the individual that you are powerful. Breeding jealousy. People may then unconsciously create scenarios whereby you’re knocked down a peg so they can essentially go, ‘Haha told myself so’. Watch out for these kinds of dynamics with people. Your level of trauma does not determine your level of awareness or integration. Infact, those who have more innate self awareness are more likely to be integrating consciously regardless of the level of their trauma. I hope you’re enjoying this weeks videos. If you’d like to work with spiritually integrating with me through Yoga Asana, Pranayama & Dharana, please head to the link in my bio where you can book a class with me starting 12/01/2026 at just £8. 🔗 ⬆️💘 Blessings, Gii Nina. 😌🧘🏼‍♀️ #traumaintegration #yogafortrauma #yogaforrecovey #unconsciousprojections

Living with long term pain should not dominate your life. Meaning being bed bound & having an ‘I cannot do X,Y,Z because of A,B,C’ mindset. Instead, if we shift our mindset to, ‘I need this food, this spiritual practice, this physical practice to maintain good health’ we begin to develop the daily mindset and habits that lead to a healthier lifestyle. I’ve see ln so many people with health conditions force themselves into toxic environments out of fear of missing out, only for it to affect their health in the long term. & guess what, you’re not actually missing out. The individuals that spend their entire lives partying are the ones missing out on life. Trust me. 🙏 #shiftingmindsets #developinghealthyhabits #changeyourlife #changeyourmindsetchangeyourlife

This January - I will be teaching online as I travel. I’m hoping to create a wholesome, online community of like minded people. ✈️ 🥰 Class prices begin at JUST £8 for my morning flow classes & you are invited to join me for deeper practice Weds&Thurs evenings. & if finances feel like a struggle for you there are block booking options for an even lower price & I aim to offer some Fri-Sun Pranayama & meditation group meetings for Free-Low priced, so keep your eyes peeled. I have blocked booked 2x weeks off at the end of Feb so I can search for a new Ashram home that is suitable for my own practice needs as my goals for my adventure are to work with my own nervous system… & hopefully I can share all I learn with you as it comes. 🫠 My website also has a FREE academic, introspective blog which currently has a lighthearted 6,000 word on quantum physics & yoga metaphysics. So if you’re interested go to the link in my BIO, give it a read & tell me what you think. 😘 Reference to @duncantrussell & witchcraft 🧙‍♀️ 😂 I will also have a £15PCM blog coming soon where I delve into more controversial topics on trauma recovery, social psychology & psychology. 🙏🫶🏻 Link is in bio 🔗 ✨ Love & blessings, Gii Nina. 🫶🏻🧘🏼‍♀️🥰 #onlineyoga #onlineyogaclasses #onlineyogateacher #travellingyogini #onlinetraumasensitiveyoga

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Yoga for stress and anxiety reduction, nervous system healing and trauma recovery.