Yin Yoga Can Help Release Stress, Anxiety, and Stored Trauma – Annelise Piers on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, CBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Annelise Piers on her expertise in Yin Yoga and breath work to release stressors from the body and mind.

 

Highlights from today’s episode include:

Annelise Piers 

Yin, it somehow, it’s a more passive practice, you hold a pose for about three minutes, sometimes five, but the good news is most of the poses are on the mat. So, it’s not like you’re standing up in the air you know engaging muscle that is not yin. Yin is focused on the deeper connective tissues.

 

Annelise Piers 

What I like about a yin breath is that we’re not forcing, we’re not controlling, we’re not counting, holding, none of the above. Yin is about allowing, it’s about accepting.

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Annelise Piers 

So, you show up on your mat, your mat can be your chair, your mat can be you standing in the supermarket line. And just start with your breath. Even if you’re just exhaling longer, if that’s the biggest hack, I can give anybody.

ABOUT ANNELISE PIERS:

Annelise Piers specializes in physical and emotional healing, using a combination of Yin Yoga, essential oils and neuro-linguistic programming; metaphor therapy. At MyYogaTeacher, she teaches Yin, Hatha, Pranayama & breathing, and meditation.  She is a qualified Hatha and Yin yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance USA, and licensed under co-founder Dr. Richard Bandler and the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming; USA UK

Core purpose/passion: I absolutely LOVE learning, diving deep into the subject of physical and mental wellbeing and sharing that with whoever will listen?

 

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ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, CBHT

As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.

My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  ‘What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship’ and ‘A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress’.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.

So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience”.

Mission: A Healer in Every Household!

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For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips

 

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TRANSCRIPT

Welcome to the Healers Café. Conversations on health and healing with Manon Bolliger. A retired and deregistered naturopathic physician with 30 plus years of experience. Here, you will discover engaging and informative conversations between experienced healers, covering all aspects of healing, the personal journey, the journey of the practitioner, and the amazing possibilities for our own body, and spirit.

Manon Bolliger  00:43

So, welcome to the Healers Café. And today I have with me, Annelise Piers, and she is part of the organization, My Yoga Teacher. And she teaches Yin Hatha, and pranayama breathing and meditation. Her specialty, though, is in yin yoga. And what’s interesting, too, is she has a background and she’s a licensed and under and co-founder Dr. Richard Bandler, and the society of Neuro Linguistic Programming. So Well, I’m very curious so first of all welcome. And I’m very curious how this all started for you. How did you find yourself down this path?

 

Annelise Piers  01:35

Manon, I would…I you know, I think the universe has always been inspiring. It’s just amazing how, you know, things open up how your opportunities present themselves. And for me when it comes to seeing the NFB for starters. So, I’ve been a corporate trainer for most of my life. And this was like, Whoa, this is, you know, the new tool in the corporate toolbox. And every corporate trainer, worker site needs to have it. But I think what really changed was how deeply it affected me, and it turned my life inside out. And it was no longer it will be academic must do fancy fancy techniques, I realized that this was needing change. And I myself was going through these, you know, it was my early 40s shifts on the hormones, my digestion was like, through the roof. So, I realized that I could apply those tools, not just the mind in reprogramming, but just the way the physiology denotes a change to my own health, that I have to shout from the rooftops to everybody else. So that’s where the NLP came in. The Yoga followed because of my digestive issues. And, you know, the two of them together just yeah, I really had to make this part of my mission, I think I really found my calling that first time I walked into a …

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* De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician, after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!