I'm a bilingual yoga teacher who helps people who sit a lot gain mobility, move without pain and reduce their stress.
How to self-care...
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I was asked this important question last week by one of my wonderful clients. Picture this. You're barely managing a self-care routine as it is, and suddenly... 💀 Your son starts kindergarten Any of these familiar? This is when I like to call in the Busy Mode Method. (I heard about from a mentor of mine called Ella, the Fitness Psych.) It's pretty simple. The idea is to manage our energy: we want to make sure we take care of ourselves so we can deal with the demands of our life. But we also don't want to put too much pressure on ourselves, and have our self-care become another chore on our plate. How do we do that?Try and find 3 manageable habits that you will commit to, without tracking them. What it can look like (just an example):
I choose the 3 habits that have the most impact for me (slow mornings, nourishing food, enough sleep), but you might pick something else. The main idea behind this is to avoid our tendency to throw every act of self-care out of the window because we feel like we are too busy. Anything is always better than nothing. When your world is upside down, simple acts of self-care will have an amazing grounding effect that will keep you sane. Ask me how I know. Om, peace 🧡 Clem |
Clémence Dieryck
I'm a bilingual yoga teacher who helps people who sit a lot gain mobility, move without pain and reduce their stress.
I've been reflecting on a question that keeps coming up in my coaching practice: should we lean into our natural tendencies or push ourselves beyond them? As often happens, the answer is: a bit of both. Let me share what I mean. I recently talked with my niece Manon, who struggles with maths but constantly compares herself to her naturally gifted brother. For her, forcing herself into a maths-heavy career would mean working twice as hard for half the results. She'd be fighting an uphill...
It’s not always easy to motivate yourself to move on a regular day, but when it’s 35°C… Yet it’s still just as important to take care of yourself and your body. So how do we do it? Well, we adapt! Yoga is for the morning! Today, I did yoga with one of my clients at 8:00, when it was still “only” 23°C, and it was divine. We did just enough movement to energize and relax before what promised to be an intense day. It reminded me how important it is to adapt our practice to the season. If you...
Have you ever noticed that mornings make you feel like a rusty gate? You wake up stiff, creaky, and it takes forever before your body feels ready to actually move. and it's not getting any better over the years, is it? There's a fascinating reason for this. And understanding it changes everything about how you approach movement. Here's what's really happening in your body Every night while you sleep, your fascia (the connective tissue that wraps around your muscles and organs) literally grows...