2024-01-14 06:20:01
What if we made a resolution in 2024 against the grain? ““Dare to slow down” is the flagship resolution of the association “Le Défi des femmes toi” and we really want to follow this trend. How can we not forget ourselves in a world that puts productivity on a pedestal?
Between work, family, friends, activities, we can sometimes feel like we can’t see the end of the tunnel. And this particularly concerns women according to the association “the challenge of women today” which organizes conferences every 3 years in Paris and this year it was the theme “Dare to slow down“. What if women set an example for men by being the pioneers of this slowdown?
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According to Louise Lamodière, president of the association, women feel guilty about taking time for themselves. “Sometimes you need the courage, the audacity to stop in order to better bounce back and identify what really matters to you. This may require a slowdown. I am convinced that women can be the initiators of a movement in the service of themselves but also their children, their spouses. Today, they manage to bring fathers in their wake. Improving the conditions of women at home and in business will only be achieved in partnership with men. “
Colloquium organized by Le Défi des femmes tourisme” in Paris on the theme “Dare to slow down”‘ • © Le Défi des femmes tourisme today
You can start by stopping for 10 minutes during your day to breathe well using the cardiac coherence technique (6 breaths per minute and for 5 minutes, ideally 3 days in a row)! And then we can try to take an hour, between noon and two, to do sports or meditative yoga! To make you want to try, you can tell yourself that this in no way implies giving up on effectiveness. A good break and we’re off again.
Once a semester or once a year, you can also participate in a retreat or a women’s circle. No need to go to Bali! In the region, yoga teacher Alice Tanghe and sophrologist Juline Ledreux organize retreats every season. Last fall, they brought together around twenty women of all ages and from all backgrounds at the “ Bear shelter » located in the Oise near Breteuil.
The twenty participants practice yin yoga, a meditative form of this sport. • © Christelle Juteau
It was a Sunday in November. On the program, yin yoga classes, a kind of meditative yoga, reasoning yoga and a sophrology session coupled with aromatherapy. One of the participants: “ The idea is to reconnect with your feelings and release your negative emotions! We wrote on a tree leaf the things we no longer wanted in our lives! Then, we could either destroy the sheet or leave it in the gîte’s garden and go home without our ailments written on it! “.
A sophrology exercise in pairs had a great impact on the participants: “We had to breathe in symbiosis, perform gestures symmetrically and look each other straight in the eye. A degree of intimacy such that it can only be true! I can tell you that there were several of us either to burst out laughing or to cry tears. It opens the chakras as they say! ”
The majority of participants claimed to have succeeded in letting go with these yin yoga and sophrology exercises but admit that it is really not easy. According to yoga teacher, Alice Tanghe, “It’s not surprising. Even I had a lot of trouble letting go when I started yin yoga several years ago. It’s true that it’s really not easy. We’re in a society that is always in motion. It’s really a learning process to reconnect with one’s breath, with one’s body, but that can be frightening. Daring to ask oneself is also to confront oneself with questions that one does not understand. doesn’t necessarily have any answers right now.”
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Women’s Tops on the theme “Dare to slow down” • ©FTV
To watch and participate in the yin yoga demo by our guest Alice Tanghe, it’s in the replay of the show above.
Come on, in 2024, we’re trying to find a balance between Yin and Yang!
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