The HealthFlix Global Wellness Community
The online channel HealthFlix offers easy access to powerful ideas to help us all manage the stress of living through a pandemic:
“Can we take this crisis—this pause in our lives—and use it to get inspired, to learn new skills and better understand the science that will help support ourselves, our families and our communities in the future?”
HealthFlix offers tools from yoga, mindfulness, and more to help with coping during the COVID-19/coronavirus crisis and beyond. The series is free, with classes streamed live—find the schedule here—and available recorded on the HealthFlix YouTube channel.
This all-volunteer community of health and well-being experts includes many IAYT-certified yoga therapists sharing their knowledge. Here are just a few of our favorites!
Jivana Heyman, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Making meditation accessible: Exploring meditation in a fun, relaxed way, using the tools of yoga as supports for your practice.
Gail Parker, PhD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Communities of care: A pandemic that requires isolating from human contact only adds to the stress of those who already feel marginalized, stigmatized, and excluded—here are strategies drawn from yoga for managing race-based traumatic stress.
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, PhD, C-IAYT
Nurture, nourishment and the power of oxytocin to calm and heal: Cultivating the healing power of oxytocin through community connection—tools from yoga to help keep in touch with the circle of belonging when we may be living apart.
Göran Boll, C-IAYT
The eye of the storm—The silent space in between: From a yogic perspective we all have a silent, peaceful “room” behind our minds’ stress and anxiety—here’s how to access that space.
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, C-IAYT
Sleep physiology and hygiene: The science of sleep—and insomnia—and the research behind how yoga may be just the thing to help.
“Building a healthier, better world”
All of these are practices you’ll want to hold on to and develop in the long term, regardless of the circumstances. Additional HeathFlix class topics include
- Staying connected during isolation
- Easy skills to manage stress and anxiety
- Coping should a loved one get sick
- How to stay active
- How healthcare workers can look after themselves
- Dealing with the information overload
