Working with Loss or Challenging Emotions

Led by Stephanie Lopez

Today’s practice focuses on meeting and working with challenging emotions. We’ll learn to welcome an emotion as sensation in the body, meeting it as a messenger that reveals information. You will be guided to also welcome an opposite emotion which may serve to reveal even deeper layers that wish to be seen, felt, and heard. You will then be guided to feel both emotions at the same time. This is meant to allow you to integrate what is arising and build a sense of resilience and capacity to meet whatever life brings to your table. We’ll weave in the Inner Resource to feel a sense of wellbeing and security no matter what is arising. 

Stephanie Lopez, LISW-S, C-IAYT, is the Senior Director, Senior iRest® Trainer and Retreat Leader for the iRest Institute. Stephanie’s offerings are informed by over 25 years of immersion in the nondual teachings of yoga. As a meditation teacher, yoga therapist, and psychotherapist she bridges eastern wisdom with western psychology to support healing and transformation. Stephanie’s compassionate presence, depth of knowledge, and ease of being create a welcoming space for insightful learning. She leads retreats and trainings internationally with a focus on living an authentic and awakened life. Learn more at www.irest.org