Namaste!
My name is Laura, and I’m professional conference interpreter and a yoga teacher. I have worked for 18 years for the European Commission (SCIC) and now I am concentrating on my yoga path. I know how stressful our profession as interpreters can be, especially when you start your career. That’s exactly why I started practicing yoga, and it has helped me immensely.
In these videos, I introduce you to some very simple tools to manage stress and anxiety, calm your mind and improve concentration.The most powerful tool we have is the breath, and by managing the breath, we can manage our emotions and get a clear and calm mind, exactly what we want in our work.
The breathing exercises I show you in the videos can be practiced anywhere, anytime, very discreetly, even in the booth before the start of the meeting, and they are guaranteed to put you in the perfect state of mind to face a day of interpreting. The techniques are safe and easy to use, even for beginners. A few minutes are enough to begin to feel calm.
Never force the breath, if dizziness or hyperventilation occurs, simply return to your normal breathing. By using this breathing techniques we are training, cleansing and quieting the mind. If you practice even a few minutes every day, you will see results in the way you handle the stress of the day. I hope it helps, and I wish you lots of joy in this amazing path of discovering the power of breath!
Laura Méndez Asbach.