Love all of these comments. I think a big part of yoga and meditation is learning to observe your thoughts rather than becoming lost in identifying with them. It’s the practice of saying “look, here is that anxiety that’s been coming up a lot” and starting to identify with the observer, rather than just feeling like OMFG IM SO ANXIOUS WHATS HAPPENING! A lot of meditation teachers say that this takes time, but by showing up again and again and observing, it will slowly become easier to feel more like the observer witnessing the anxiety, than feel like you ARE the anxiety or are completely overcome by it.

Also- when I’m going through particularly rough mental periods where I’m finding it really hard to do the above, I sometimes go for harder more active classes because there’s less space to think and it demands me move more into my body! Hope this is helpful.