How to Release Energy Blockages Naturally and Safely

Have you ever felt stuck, drained, or heavy without knowing why? Perhaps your intuition is stronger than ever, your emotions swing unexpectedly, or spiritual experiences leave you overwhelmed. These are often signs that energy is not flowing freely in your body, creating blockages that affect your mind, emotions, and physical well-being.

Releasing these blockages safely and naturally allows your energy to flow smoothly, your nervous system to regulate, and your inner wisdom to shine.

Why Energy Blockages Happen

Energy blockages can develop from:

  • Emotional trauma or unprocessed experiences

  • Stress, anxiety, or chronic overwhelm

  • Suppressed intuition or creativity

  • Energetic overload from spiritual or psychic experiences

When energy is stagnant, it can manifest as:

  • Fatigue or lethargy

  • Irritability or emotional reactivity

  • Physical tension or pain

  • Difficulty connecting with intuition or feeling present

Natural and Safe Ways to Release Energy Blockages

Here are practical, body-based, and energetically aligned practices you can integrate into your life:

1. Body Awareness & Movement

Your body stores energy, so movement is a powerful tool to release blockages. Gentle stretching, yoga, dancing, or shaking your limbs can free trapped energy and restore vitality.

Tip: Move intuitively, don’t force anything. Let the body guide you.

Intuitive movement is healing for creating healthy change in your physical, mental and emotional states.

2. Breathwork

Conscious breathing helps release stagnant energy while calming the nervous system. Practices like deep diaphragmatic breathing, alternate nostril breathing, or slow intentional exhales encourage energy to flow.

Tip: Pair breath with visualization, imagining energy moving through and clearing your body.

Breath connects you to expanded consciousness.

3. Mindful Self-Massage or Ayurvedic Oil Treatments

Massaging the body with warm oil (Abhyanga) or simply kneading tense areas helps mobilize blocked energy, soothe the nervous system, and invite presence into the body.

Tip: Focus on areas of tension, allowing awareness and intention to accompany your touch.

When you touch your body with loving care, you touch the sacred presence within you.

4. Energy Awareness Practices

Notice where you feel tension, tingling, or heaviness. Place your hands over these areas, breathe, and imagine energy flowing freely. Gentle energy practices, like Divine light vibration visualization, can support energetic release without force.

Tip: Always work from presence and intention, never trying to “push” energy aggressively.

Energy is and cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

5. Nature & Grounding

Connecting with the earth helps anchor energy and release excess or stuck vibrations. Walk barefoot, hug a tree, sit by water, or simply notice the elements around you.

Tip: Daily grounding, even for 5–10 minutes, builds resilience and prevents future blockages.

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." – Albert Einstein

6. Journaling & Emotional Release

Writing down thoughts, emotions, and intuitive impressions helps process and release internal blockages. Let your pen flow freely, don’t overthink or edit.

Tip: After journaling, gently stretch, breathe, or take a walk to help energy move.

"Writing is the painting of the voice." – Voltaire

7. Rest, Integration & Self-Compassion

Blockage release is not about pushing or forcing, it’s about allowing and integrating. Take quiet moments to rest, meditate, or simply breathe. Treat yourself with gentleness.

Tip: Schedule intentional pauses to process energy after any release practice.

Integration is where true transformation begins.

Next Steps for Support

Releasing energy blockages safely is deeply transformative, but guidance can accelerate the process and ensure you stay grounded.

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Thank you for tuning in.

With Love & Light,
Heidi Nordlund

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Heidi Nordlund is the founder of Namaskar Healing™, LLC. She is a  NAMA certified Ayurvedic Doctor, Yoga Therapist, Tibetan Cranial Practitioner, Postpartum Specialist and Spiritual Healer who is available for private consultations and healing sessions in person or via phone.

Heidi currently offers sessions in Longmont, Denver and Evergreen, Colorado, as well as in Sedona, Arizona.

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Clients find inspiration in Heidi's practical skills and caring wisdom resulting from many years of specialized training and practice.

Heidi is a Professional Member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) recognized at the Ayurvedic Doctor level of membership.

Heidi is one of the most well trained Ayurvedic Practitioners in the USA. She has completed more than 4000 hours of Ayurvedic training and has more than 8000 hours of clinical practice. Most Ayurvedic health counselors and practitioners have 600-1500 hours of training.

In 2010, Heidi graduated as certified Ayurveda Vaidya from Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula, Boulder, CO. Her thirst for deepening her knowledge lead her to continue her advanced studies at Alandi, and in 2012, she received her Bhishakgwara certificate.

Heidi has also graduated as Ayurvedic practitioner, Pancha Karma Therapist, Yoga Therapist and Ayurvedic Postpartum Specialist from the Rocky Mountain Institute for Yoga and Ayurveda, Boulder, CO, and has completed several intensives at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM.

Heidi's Ayurvedic teachers include Alakananda Ma, Dr. Bharat Vaidya, Vasant Lad, Dr. Sarita Shrestha, Dr. Sarasvati Buhrman, and Ysha Martha Oakes.

In 2008, Heidi earned her Tibetan Cranial Practitioner Certification after graduating from a rigorous apprenticeship under the guidance of Master Teacher Shar Lee.

In Heidi's nine years of Tibetan Cranial practice, she has assisted people in attaining relief from various complaints and specializes in migraines and headaches, jaw and sinus issues, anxiety and panic attacks, insomnia, dizziness, trauma, depression, fatigue, suppressed emotions, and spiritual emergencies.

"Heidi, thank you for all the wonderful work you do. You have made a huge difference in my life, healing my headaches and teaching me, with patience. Your intuition combined with your education makes you a truly remarkable healer." Jaqui G., Longmont, CO

As a certified Yoga Teacher through Nepal's Sapta Yoga International (1998), and certified Yoga Therapist through the Rocky Mountain Institute for Yoga & Ayurveda (2006) and International Association of Yoga Therapists (2017), Heidi conducts private sessions, Yoga classes and workshops in Colorado, Arizona and Denmark.

Her teachings are enriched by formal academic training through Naropa University; her Bachelor of Arts Degree (2005) reflects her focus on Contemplative Psychology, Health and Healing, Sanskrit, and Hindu philosophies, practices and traditions.

Heidi continues to deepen and advance her spiritual connection through personal dedication to devotional practices as a Kriya Yoga initiate in the lineage of Paramahamsa Hariharananda and Paramahamsa Prajnanananda.

Heidi was born and raised in Denmark; she moved to the United States in 2002 to engage with enduring dedication in an ongoing deepening learning and application of spiritual healing disciplines. This led to her founding of Namaskar Healing in 2007.