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Wishing our listeners a bright and happy New Year. We hope you enjoy this uplifting meditation written by Mike Dooley, read by Shann and with music by Ananga.

Yoga Qi Gong both favour still, standing poses, to develop core strength, stability and peace. Standing poses invoke the mood of the mountain - still, immovable and solid, whatever weather crashes over head or blows around it, it stands strong, tall and unchanged. With many of us surrounded by a variety of noise and hustle and bustle throughout the day (and sometimes the night too) it’s important that we find the time to recharge and ground ourselves before our energy gets depleted by pure lack of true peace and rest. In this podcast, Ananga shares a simple exercise using meridian energy points that can help you feel calm and grounded whenever you need to.

As we alter our clocks and acknowledge the fact that summer is gone and we have weeks of long dark evenings ahead, many of us begin to feel the urge to hibernate. We get sluggish and sleepy and we resent the lack of light. Sometimes we feel anxious or mildly depressed as the weeks roll by and we wait for spring to lighten things up again. In this podcast Shann shares three simple ways to fend off the blues and nurture your light side..

In this podcast I'm sharing how you can learn to calm your mind by engaging it fully in the little things you do every day: walking, cooking, reading, washing dishes. There are so many opportunities to master your mind and reign in negative thinking.

Anxiety and relaxation are polar opposites. You will never feel one when you are fully experiencing the other. In this podcast Ananga talks about how she benefits from regular relaxation and how you can too.

Shann shares a gentle yoga posture that's perfect for helping you feel grounded and reducing feelings of stress or anxiety. For more like this please vist the yoga for stress and anxiety relief section of the Slayer Store at AnxietySlayer.com

Sharing a popular relaxation exercise from Ananga's meditation class. For more relaxation expereinces like this we invite you to visit the Anxiety Slayer Store, where you will find a collection of stress and anxiety relief downloads and gentle yoga for stress and anxiety relief. Our audio is recorded with love and care and each meditation is available for the price of a cup of coffee.

It is valuable for anyone suffering from stress or anxiety to know that Autumn is the season that can be the most challenging. Ayurveda's richly supportive science offers some beautifully simple ways to protect yourself, calm your mind and nourish your nervous system. In this podcast, Ananga shares a few that you can add to your day to help you transition smoothly through the Autumn months. Related information you might enjoy: Ayurveda and Anxiety Relief Getting to Know Your Ayurvedic Body Type

Shann talks about cultivating an attitude of open and enthusiastic curiosity in all that we do. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind, there are few." Shunryu Suzuki

Ananga shares a simple exercise that clearly shows what's getting in to your day and whether or not it is helpful to you in feeling supported and calm in your quest for anxiety relief Fro more self help anxiety tips, please visit our blog at AnxietySlayer.com

Shann talks about the importance and practice of taking time out to relax your mind.

This podcast shares a Yoga breathing technique that's helpful in calming the mind and helping with clarity and concentration - two things that anxiety can really affect. For more self help anxiety techniques, please visit our stress and anxiety relief download page on AnxietySlayer.com

Shann talks about how she's learned to respond to mental overload by taking time out for self-care and offers some refreshing words of advice on how we can all benefit from examining what's going on in our lives and recognising our need to take good care of ourselves.

How many times have you reacted to stress by blurting out a harsh response and escalating the situation? It can be hard not to. If you're already simmering then any extra little stress is going to provoke a spurt of steam, sometimes your steam just evaporates into the air, but sometimes it scalds people around you and that's not a good thing. So how can you stop those spontaneous eruptions? One way is to gather a selection of stress relief techniques and play around with them. There are a whole variety of ways to deal with challenges and frustrations, and it feels wonderful to know that you can break old patterns and grow new responses that are truly inline with who you want to be. It's often helpful, when you want to learn a new skill, to look out for other people who've already mastered it. If you know someone who's able to keep cool, calm and collected no matter what's going on around them watch them! You can look at their posture, and their breathing as well as listen and look out for more obvious signs

Shann shares a beautiful meditation exercise for soothing stress and anxiety.

This guided process shares a series of steps that can help you acknowledge and then dissolve negative emotions whenever you find yourself in a funk.

In this week's podcast Shann reads a beautiful poem by Karen Andes, music by Ananga. I am a beautiful woman, with beauty that doesn’t wash off. I earned it, unearthed it, rescued it like a jewel in the dust, picked it up and made it shine. For years I did not see it, though I sensed it was there.  Now it dazzles and thrives. I am healthy, capable, independent, strong yet still so fragile, floored by a sigh. My body is that of a creator … angles meeting curves, hardness drifting into soft. I am a mother, daughter, sister, lover to myself.  Embraceable and brave, I extend my heart. My body is home, my home a shrine to life, comfortable, warm and rich with treasures. Mine is the scent of hot spices caught in a breeze, mine the laughter that wings through the door. I share myself only with those who honor me as I am and protect myself, my house, and my time from invaders. I search for my center in the midst of chaos, practice peace as wild dogs clamor in my mind. I use power for the greater good, relea

In this podcast Shann reminds us to keep a look ot for the little things that bring us joy every day.

Ayurveda teaches that we have several layers to our sensitive and vulnerable minds. In this podcast Ananga talks about discovering your inner doorman and how the choices you make in every area of your life affect your personal sense of peace. This podcast is a further explanation of the topics covered in Shann and Ananga's Senses Sensibilities discussion. We welcome your comments and invite you to share this podcast with your friends. Thank you for your support.

Shann and Ananga discuss how our senses can disturb our minds when they have too much incoming information to process and how we can develop awareness of what's affecting us and make better choices that help protect and calm the mind.