Yoga for Your Mood—More Uplift, Less Meh

🧠 Yoga Works—Here’s the Science to Shut Your Doubts Up (So You Can Go Deeper)

Hey you.
How’s the inner weather today?

Bit grey and foggy upstairs? Sun trying to break through?
Or maybe you’re full “meh” and low-key Googling if it’s a full moon again (spoiler: probably).

Here’s the good news: whatever you’re feeling today, yoga’s got the range.

Modern life can be a bit… relentless, can’t it?

We go-go-go until we’re burnt out, bottomed out, or sitting in the car wondering why we came to Tesco in the first place.

But the truth is, the mind doesn’t need more doing—it needs less.
Less effort. Less force. Less fixing.
More pause. More noticing. More being.

Enter: The Law of Least Effort.
Yep, today’s Retreat Law is your cosmic permission slip to do less and feel more.
Because sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stop trying so hard.

🧪 And the Science Says…

Yoga helps regulate the very systems that tank your mood when life gets heavy:

• It reduces cortisol (the stress hormone that makes you feel wired and wrecked all at once).
• It boosts GABA, a calming neurotransmitter that helps you feel more steady and less frantic.
• It improves vagal tone, which is fancy science-speak for helping your body come back to calm faster.

One study even found that after just 8 weeks of regular yoga, participants showed significantly lower levels of anxiety and depression symptoms—without changing anything else. Source: Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2017

In short: yoga helps lift the fog, ease the ache, and dial down the mental static.

If you’re inside the Retreat space in the app, take a moment today to listen to the Law of Least Effort audio drop.

🎧 It’s a reminder that:

• Nature doesn’t force. It flows.
• Flowers don’t push to bloom. They just do.
• Your practice isn’t about proving anything. It’s about tuning in.

So if you’re tired, cranky, overwhelmed, or just… off—don’t muscle through it.
Sit. Breathe. Walk barefoot on the grass. Take 10 minutes to do a Yin pose and not try.

Because here’s the thing no one tells you:
Sometimes the most transformational yoga isn’t on the mat.
It’s in the moment you finally stop wrestling with yourself.

Try one of the Breathwork practices in the app today.
You’ll find them under the Digital Vault.
No big production. No fancy leggings. Just you, your breath, and the willingness to let go—just for a bit.

And if you’re tempted to skip because “what’s 10 minutes really gonna do?”
That’s the klesha talking, darling.
You are worthy of rest and uplift—even if your mind tries to convince you otherwise.

📲 Today’s Checklist:
✅ Listen to the Law of Least Effort Audio
✅ Try a gentle practice (Yin/Breathwork is 👌)
✅ Ask: What can I not do today and still be okay?

Not inside the Retreat yet?
You can still join and catch up here → [All the links you need]

❤️ Final Word from My Mat to Yours

This isn’t about becoming someone else.
It’s about remembering who you were before the mood dips, the overthinking, the overwhelm.

Yoga doesn’t fix you.
It reminds you that you weren’t broken in the first place.

So if you’ve been feeling a bit… meh,
I see you.
And I’d gently suggest: don’t skip the mat.
That 10-minute pause might just give you back a whole day’s worth of “okay, I’ve got this.”

Big exhale. Big love.
Josie x

• 📲 Next Step:
• Check the app for today’s retreat practice and audio drop.
• Not inside yet? Come on in and join us.
• We’ve saved you a mat, and you don’t even need to roll it out.