Clearing Space Within: The 7-Day Yoga Journey with Annie Hasselmann

What Does It Mean to “Clear Space”?

Clearing space isn’t just about tidying a room or organizing your calendar, it’s about creating room inside yourself for what truly matters. In the context of yoga and somatic practice, clearing space is a gentle, intentional process of noticing what you’ve carried through the winter: thoughts, tensions, habits, and energies that no longer serve you. It’s about observing without judgment and offering your body, mind, and heart the permission to release, soften, and reset.

Imagine your body as a home. Over time, rooms can fill with clutter, some of it meaningful, some of it heavy or unnecessary. The Clearing Space journey is an invitation to move through your inner home with care, tending to each room. Some areas may need rest, others activation; some corners may welcome stillness, while others are ready for flow. As you move, breathe, and tune inward, you begin to notice the spaces that are calling for attention, nurturing, or expansion.

Reflection questions along the way can help guide this process: What have I carried with me that I’m ready to release? What do I want to nurture and bring forward into the new season? What does my body need to feel safe, grounded, and at home? Clearing space is not about fixing or forcing change, it’s about creating an environment, inside and out, that allows growth, presence, and ease to naturally unfold.

That's exactly what Annie Hasselmann's 7-Day Clearing Space Journey invites you to explore.

The Nervous System as the Foundation of Renewal

At the heart of Clearing Space is the understanding that true renewal begins with the nervous system. Our nervous system is constantly processing the world around us, guiding how we respond to stress, rest, and connection. When winter leaves us carrying tension, fatigue, or emotional residue, it’s often a sign that our system is in need of balance, a gentle recalibration that restores a sense of safety and presence.

Annie uses the wisdom of somatic practices and polyvagal-informed movement to guide your nervous system toward regulation. Breath, rhythm, and containment become tools for inviting safety and connection. Techniques like slow flows, mindful inhalations and extended exhales, self-hug postures, and tapping allow the body to feel held even as energy is activated or released. As the nervous system learns that movement and activation can be safe, it opens the door to freedom, flow, and integration.

Spring is the perfect season for this type of reset. Just as nature sheds what it no longer needs, we too can release old patterns, stagnant energy, and tension held in the body. By tending to your nervous system first, you lay the foundation for deeper movement, emotional clarity, and a sense of being fully at home in your body. In other words, before you can clear space outwardly, you begin by clearing space inwardly.

The Structure of the Journey: 7 Days of Intentional Progression

Clearing Space is designed as a gentle, intentional journey that unfolds over seven days, guiding you from stillness to activation, and ultimately to integration. Each day is a small, contained step - just 30 minutes of practice - yet together they form a rhythm that nurtures both the body and the nervous system.

The week begins with grounding and softening, helping you arrive in your body and establish a felt sense of safety. From there, the journey moves into activation, inviting you to explore strength, fluidity, and liberation in ways that feel safe and supported. By midweek, you’ll begin to release stagnant energy and awaken the parts of yourself that may have been quiet during winter. As the days progress, the practice shifts toward integration, blending stillness, flow, and reflection so that the nervous system can harmonize and the body can carry forward what is truly essential.

Every practice in the week combines movement with somatic techniques, from mindful breathwork and self-hug postures to tapping, shaking, and meditative scans. The structure is designed to meet you where you are, allowing you to show up without pressure while still cultivating a deep sense of presence, release, and renewal. By committing to just 30 minutes a day, you create a consistent container that honors your rhythm and supports meaningful transformation, inside and out.

A Day-by-Day Snapshot

Over the course of seven days, Annie guides you through a full cycle of grounding, activation, and integration. The journey begins with gentle grounding and softening, using slow flows, mindful breath, and self-hug postures to help you arrive in your body and feel rooted. As the week unfolds, the practice gradually awakens strength, trust, and freedom through tapping, flowing sequences, shaking, and dynamic movement, allowing energy that has been held or stagnant to release safely. In the final days, stillness and integration take center stage, inviting longer holds, meditative scans, and breathwork to harmonize the nervous system and bring all the week’s experiences together. By the end of the journey, you’ll feel lighter, more present, and fully re-centered — a renewed sense of home within yourself, ready to carry into the new season.

Meet Your Instructor: Annie Hasselmann

Annie Hasselmann is a yoga teacher and somatic movement guide who blends mindfulness, breathwork, and nervous-system-informed practices into her teaching. Her approach is grounded in the belief that the body holds wisdom and that movement can be both restorative and empowering when approached with intention and care.

Over the years, Annie has guided countless students through practices that honor both stillness and strength, helping them reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and sense of inner safety. She draws on techniques from yoga, somatic awareness, and energy work to create practices that feel accessible, supportive, and deeply nourishing.

With Clearing Space, Annie brings her signature style, a balance of gentle attunement and purposeful activation, to a seven-day journey designed to help you slow down, release what no longer serves you, and step into the new season with clarity and presence. Through her guidance, each practice becomes more than a yoga session; it’s an invitation to reconnect with your inner home, nurture yourself, and create space for what truly matters.

The Somatic Thread That Weaves It All Together

What makes Clearing Space more than just a series of yoga classes is the intentional use of somatic practices to guide your body, breath, and nervous system toward balance. Each day, gentle techniques like box breathing, alternate nostril breathing, and self-hug postures help you cultivate a sense of safety and presence. Tapping, shaking, and subtle dynamic movements allow you to release tension and stagnant energy, while guided body and energetic scans create awareness of what’s asking for attention, care, or renewal.

These practices are designed to help your nervous system recognize that movement, activation, and stillness can all be safe, supportive, and nourishing. By engaging with your body on multiple levels, physically, energetically, and emotionally, the week becomes a complete experience of clearing, releasing, and replenishing. Beyond the mat, these tools can carry into daily life, helping you navigate stress, maintain groundedness, and create a lasting sense of space and clarity within yourself.

What You’ll Carry Forward

By the end of the Clearing Space journey, you’ll notice more than just a sense of relaxation — you’ll feel a deeper connection to your body, mind, and inner home. The practices of the week help you release what no longer serves you, reclaim energy that may have felt stuck, and strengthen the foundation from which you move through your days.

You’ll carry forward a renewed sense of presence, resilience, and clarity. Moments of stillness will feel more accessible, and the awareness cultivated through breath, somatic practices, and mindful movement will support you long after your mat practice ends. The journey leaves you grounded yet expansive, anchored yet free, a balance that allows you to step into the new season with intention and ease.

Ultimately, Clearing Space is about giving yourself permission: permission to release, to rest, to move, and to create the inner room needed to welcome growth, joy, and possibility. This renewed sense of home within yourself becomes a foundation for whatever the season ahead may bring.

Who This Journey Is For

Clearing Space is designed for anyone who wants to enter the new season with clarity, presence, and balance. It’s perfect for practitioners who crave a nervous-system-informed approach to yoga, as well as anyone feeling heavy, full, or disconnected after the winter months. Whether you enjoy stillness, movement, or a blend of both, this journey meets you where you are, offering accessible practices that nurture, strengthen, and restore.

This journey is also ideal for those seeking a time-bound reset: a gentle, consistent 30-minute daily practice that allows you to slow down, release, and realign without feeling overwhelmed. If you’re ready to reconnect with your body, honor your nervous system, and create inner space for what truly matters, this journey is for you.

Make Room for What Matters

Spring is the perfect season to tend to your inner home, releasing what no longer serves and welcoming what supports growth, clarity, and joy. Clearing Space is your invitation to take this time for yourself, 30 minutes a day, seven days in a row, to slow down, turn inward, and reconnect with your body, breath, and energy.

Through gentle flows, somatic practices, and mindful breathwork, you’ll leave the week feeling grounded, rejuvenated, and fully re-centered. This is more than a yoga practice; it’s a chance to honor yourself, nurture your inner home, and make space for what truly matters.

Step onto your mat, take this time, and clear space for your renewed self. Your season of clarity, presence, and intention begins now.