As a licensed marriage and family therapist in Niantic, Connecticut, I wanted to share with you some great ways yoga can strengthen your family. These are some ways outside of sessions. As a family therapist in Niantic, Connecticut, I recommend seeking counseling around divorce. In couple’s therapy sessions in my office along the Southeastern Connecticut shoreline, you’ll learn breathing techniques to help you fight fairly. Family therapy session scan help your relationship improve with your children. Overall, your family therapist in Niantic, Connecticut can help you feel connection together. Couples often have disagreements because they don’t see eye-to-eye. Instead, frustration turns to anger and the whole family unit feels disconnected. Read more about couple’s support, here.
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Couple’s therapy in Niantic can be for long-term couples as well as those who are married. By fusing on the connection you have with your partner or spouse, you’ll return refreshed to parenting your little ones. These yoga tips can help you and your partner as well as your whole family unit remain close and emotionally connected. As a holistic family therapist in Niantic, Connecticut, yoga can be fun and playful.
1. Increased Family Strength and Satisfaction (Family Yoga!)
When you do yoga as a family, you are strengthening your bond together. Even after one class, trying something new as a unit, having fun exploring tricky poses and smiling, and resting in final relaxation at the end, can bring a family closer. Plus, self-acceptance and contentment are great benefits too- we can all use a little more gentleness with ourselves. Look online for a family yoga class or play one off YouTube. Then, have a blast while slowing down, soaking up loads of quality time, and sharing a meaningful experience!
2. (For Parents Only) Improved Couple Connection and Sex Life
Making yoga part of your weekly date night can be a fun way to change up the typical dinner and wine routine. As a therapist, I always recommend parents have a date night! And, in some cases, literally give homework to get out for a weekly date, without children. This nurtures your couple bubble!
Recent studies have found that couples who participate in yoga together, from gentle classes to hot power yoga, may experience increases in sexual intimacy and arousal. The rush of endorphins, those feel-good chemicals in your blood stream, also may help couples who are struggling with sexual dysfunction work together, be patient, and communicate. The intimacy you develop with your breath in yoga requires new levels of trust, communication, and connection, which you then share with your partner!
3. Increased Non-Verbal Communication (Just For You!)
In a yoga class, the poses are one thing, but simultaneously you are working on trusting yourself, supporting yourself, and most importantly, being vulnerable. As you develop self-awareness, you gain deeper empathy for you children, adolescents, teenagers, and spouse- and in-law’s! Nurturing others comes from a loving, compassionate, long-term relationship with yourself as well as valuing yourself.
4. Improved Anxiety-Reduction Techniques
While most yoga practices boost heart rate, improve circulation, and increase flexibility, yoga also helps with mind training. The act of simply holding someone else’s hand lower’s stress hormones in the blood stream. Likewise, in yoga, certain binds, such as namaste prayer hands, calm your stress hormones. Additionally, the breathing techniques help to reduce anxiety, calm your nervous system, and rejuvenate your mind. Another plus, even heart-openers, such as camel, up dog, sphinx, and bridge ease mild depression and uplift mood!
Written By Katie Ziskind, holistic marriage and family therapist in Niantic, Connecticut
Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500. At Wisdom Within Counseling, in Niantic, CT I help challenged children and couples develop social skills and teens heal from trauma. My mission is to help boost self-confidence for life-long wellness. I integrate evidenced-based experiential therapies for a highly effective mixed methods approach integrating art, yoga, music, and animal therapy groups- so children and teens can build positive skills and live a life they LOVE! Book Online at WisdomWithinCt.com
