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30: What Feels Safe
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30: What Feels Safe

How might we learn to find safety again after loss?

“When you go through something really big, like a grief experience, there are so many ways you can either be stuck in that, or be totally disconnected because there’s so much happening. I love the yoga practice because it really encourages us to approach our bodies with capacity building and care. The practice is intended to help us find an internal gaze awareness that we eventually bring out into how we live in the world, and yoga guides us to do this in a very mindful way."

Emma Stern

This episode is part of a Breathing Wind miniseries titled Transforming Grief, hosted by Wendy Rolón, end of life doula, bereavement counselor and workshop facilitator. The Transforming Grief miniseries explores what we can do as humans to embrace grief as a tool for growth.



How might we learn to find safety again after loss? In this episode, Wendy Rolón from Season One (ep 15) and Emma Stern, AMFT, trauma-informed yoga teacher and counselor with a focus on somatics, talk about trauma-informed yoga, self-soothing, and community.


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Emma and Wendy talk about:

  • How certain yoga poses and vinyasa can help with acute grief and getting “unstuck” from grief’s numbness

  • Cultivating self-soothing through the practice of yoga

  • Community’s role in healing practices, such as yoga

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Breathing Wind Podcast
Breathing Wind
Breathing Wind is a podcast about grief and loss and how we journey with these lifelong companions.
Naila Francis, grief coach, writer and former journalist and Sarah Davis, podcast consultant, speaker and writer, are cohosts. We offer warm, honest and insightful conversations for the introspective at heart.
Launched in 2019 as a personal grief project, the podcast struck a chord with listeners looking for a space to feel less alone in their grief. Quickly, a dedicated community grew around the candid and compelling conversations with others who knew grief just as intimately and those who offered guidance for navigating this universal human experience.
In its three seasons of publishing monthly episodes, Breathing Wind has become a trusted space to explore who we become and how we make meaning in the midst of our post-loss lives. It's also the place where joy, laughter, wonder and possibility co-exist alongside deep heartbreak.
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