Today Nova is joined by Lou Kelle, one of our amazing yoga teachers at the Brighton studio. She is also a meditation teacher, life coach and runs some beautiful retreats.
Lou has been teaching yoga for almost a decade, and shares with us how she first began practicing yoga as a way to relieve her anxiety and regulate her nervous system. She explains how the transformation she experienced caused her to leave school teaching and become a yoga teacher.
In the last few years, Lou has focused on supporting highly sensitive people, or HSP. In this episode, she explains what HSP is and how those who identify as having this trait can benefit greatly from the practice of yoga.
Rather than a diagnosis, being highly sensitive is a self-identification that 20% of the population resonate with. While they display some beautiful attributes, highly sensitive people have a tendency to experience a lot of overwhelm from the world around them. Lou break downs down the acronym ‘DOES’ to help us understand the characteristics of HSP:
- D: Depth of processing
- O: Overstimulation
- E: Emotional and empathetic
- S: Sensitive to the subtleties
We discuss yoga’s ability to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, and how its philosophy can support the rich inner world of highly sensitive people. Lou suggests different styles of yoga that can especially benefit those feeling overwhelmed or overstimulated.
Whether you are highly sensitive or have someone in your life who is, this conversation will give you some valuable insight into how sensitive souls can be supported to thrive as they move through life.
LINKS
The Highly Sensitive Person test
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