Breathe Yoga Therapy with Ali Webb

11/03/2025

Join me online each week for Somatic Yoga for Stress and Anxiety, where gentle movement and breathwork help your body shift out of survival mode and back into ease.

Tuesdays 5:30pm ET or Thursdays 10am ET.

Drop in anytime, no ongoing commitment needed.

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09/24/2025

If your body still feels tense even when the danger has passed, you’re not broken—you’re responding to how your nervous system learned to keep you safe.

Our nervous systems don’t just react—they scan our environment for safety or threat—often before we’re consciously aware. Polyvagal Theory helps explain this: when you feel stuck in fight-or-flight or immobilized, it’s not a failure—it’s your system trying to protect you based on past signals.

Learning to identify and shift these states with warmth and curiosity is where change becomes possible. Through practices like breathwork, mindful movement, and understanding your body’s cues, your nervous system can relearn what it feels like to rest and connect.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed or like your body is constantly on edge, this blog won’t ask you to “just calm down.” Instead, it offers a grounded path toward understanding and soothing your nervous system from the inside out.

Read more and explore gentle, body-based ways to move from survival mode into safety:
https://www.breathe-yogatherapy.com/blog/decode-stress-response-polyvagal-theory-anxiety-calm

Your nervous system is not your enemy—it’s a guide. What it needs now is trust, compassion, and time to learn a new story of safety.

Learn how Polyvagal Theory can transform anxiety into calm by understanding your body's stress response and supporting emotional resilience.

09/22/2025

If you’ve ever reacted to something before you even had time to think about it, there’s a reason for that.

Your nervous system is wired to protect you. The moment it detects a possible threat—whether it’s real or not—it responds automatically. This stress response is shaped by your past experiences and the patterns your body has learned over time.

Polyvagal theory helps us understand how we move through different states: safety, fight-or-flight, or shutdown. None of these states are wrong—they’re survival strategies your body uses to help you cope. But when your system has learned to stay on high alert, it can be hard to return to a place of calm, even when you’re safe.

The good news is that your nervous system is capable of change. Through body-based practices like breathwork, gentle movement, and nervous system education, you can retrain your stress response, create more moments of safety, and spend less time in survival mode.

You don’t have to feel stuck in high alert. Comment CALM and I’ll send you the link to join my free community, the Inner Calm Collective, where you’ll learn gentle, practical tools for nervous system regulation and lasting ease.

09/17/2025

If your anxiety feels like a low hum you can’t switch off—even when you’re safe—it’s not just “in your head.”
That tension, restlessness, or chronic stress might be your body holding onto what never fully got released.

Unresolved trauma can keep your nervous system locked in survival mode. This isn’t about weakness. It’s your system still trying to protect you from things that happened in the past. Recognizing that is the first step toward relief.

Healing doesn’t mean rewriting your past—it means starting with your body, with compassion. When your nervous system learns safety again through practices like deep breathing, mindful movement, or reparenting your inner child, real change becomes possible.

If you often feel stuck in fight-or-flight, this isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about creating space for ease, trust, and calm to return.

Read the full blog here: https://www.breathe-yogatherapy.com/blog/unresolved-trauma-fuels-anxiety-adulthood

Your past doesn’t have to define today. Healing begins when you learn to come home to your body with kindness.

Unresolved trauma fuels anxiety by keeping your body on high alert. Discover how to heal, regulate your nervous system, and find relief from chronic stress.

09/15/2025

Anxiety in adulthood often has deeper roots than we realize.
It’s not always about the stress in front of you—it can be about what your body has been holding onto for years.

When past stress or trauma goes unresolved, your nervous system can get stuck in survival mode. Your body stays on high alert, reacting to triggers as if the past is still happening. These reactions aren’t a sign of weakness or “overreacting.” They’re your body’s way of keeping you safe.

The challenge is that patterns designed to protect you can also keep you feeling stuck, anxious, or disconnected. The good news? Your nervous system can change. Through somatic practices like breathwork, gentle movement, and nervous system education, it’s possible to release stored tension, shift old patterns, and build a deep sense of safety from within.

You don’t have to live in constant high alert. Comment CALM and I’ll send you the link to join my free community, the Inner Calm Collective, where you’ll get trauma-informed support, guided practices, and tools to help you move from survival mode into ease.

09/10/2025

If worry feels like a constant hum behind every thought, or if your body seems tense even in moments of calm—it’s not just in your head. It’s your nervous system doing its job: trying to keep you safe.

In our blog post, Finding Ease Within: A Somatic Yoga Therapy Journey for Healing Anxiety, we explore how anxiety often lives in the body long before it shows up in the mind. And how somatic yoga isn’t about pushing harder—it’s about listening more deeply, with kindness, curiosity, and gentle awareness.
You’ll discover how slow, mindful movement and breath can help unclench chronic tension, regulate your stress response, and create a felt sense of safety from within. You’ll also see how this process isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about reclaiming connection, trust, and your own innate capacity to heal.

If you’re living with a nervous system that stays in overdrive, this post doesn’t ask you to show up as anything other than exactly who you are. It offers a grounded invitation: to explore what it feels like to move with ease, inside your body—and to let that ease ripple outward into your daily life.

When you’re ready to feel more settled, understood, and supported—click through to read the full post. Let it stir your curiosity, remind you that healing can feel gentle, and open a pathway toward greater ease.

Explore body-focused healing for anxiety with six transformative sessions. Heal the root causes of chronic stress, release trauma, and cultivate lasting peace.

09/08/2025

If anxiety has been part of your daily life for so long that it feels normal, I want you to know—it doesn’t have to stay that way.

When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, your body stays on high alert, always scanning for danger. This isn’t about being “too sensitive” or not trying hard enough. It’s your body doing exactly what it was designed to do—protect you. But when that protection becomes constant, it can leave you feeling exhausted, disconnected, and unsure how to slow down.

Somatic and body-focused practices offer a different way forward. They work with your nervous system, helping it learn that it’s safe to rest, breathe, and release the tension it’s been holding. Over time, you can rebuild trust in your body, create a sense of safety from the inside out, and find the calm you’ve been searching for.

If you’re ready to reconnect with your body, soothe your mind, and discover a steady sense of ease, you don’t have to do it alone. Comment CALM and I’ll send you the link to join our free community, the Inner Calm Collective, where you’ll find practical tools, guided practices, and ongoing support to help you move from survival mode into peace.

09/03/2025

Your nervous system learns through experience—and when that experience is shaped by trauma or chronic stress, it adapts to protect you.

But what protected you then might be keeping you stuck now.
That’s where repatterning comes in.

In this blog post, I share how new, supportive sensory input—like grounding through your feet, moving with intention, or simply feeling the rhythm of your breath—can help create fresh neural pathways.

This isn’t about forcing change.
It’s about gently offering your brain and body something different.
A new pattern.
A new message of safety.

Over time, these small moments of sensory awareness help your nervous system respond to the present—not just the past.

✨ Read the full post here → https://www.breathe-yogatherapy.com/blog/repatterning-healing-trauma-reducing-anxiety

Discover how repatterning with new sensory input can heal trauma and reduce anxiety. Learn how practices like yoga and somatic techniques create lasting change.