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Trauma Sensitive Yoga & Meditation Offerings to Enhance your Trauma Healing!
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How Yoga Helps
Trauma is often experienced through the body and so healing must occur through the body as well. Trauma sensitive yoga invites you to establish a healthy relationship to your body. It is known to develop and enhance an individual’s interoceptive awareness. Interoception is the ability to tune into one’s body cues & sensations in a mindful way. Learning to notice comfort/discomfort, your breath, how various postures make you feel & how to listen to internal cues to guide you to take effective action to meet your own needs are all part of trauma yoga. These are valuable tools that can be taken with you off the mat & into your daily life. Often, traumatic experiences interfere with interoception by causing feelings of being numb and/or detached from the body or overwhelmed by sensations.
Research has supported yoga in the treatment of trauma. It is a way to calm an overactive nervous system and reset yourself. Prior experience with yoga is not necessary! The postures are able to be done by most people and modifications can be offered when needed.
How is Trauma Informed Yoga
Different than Regular Yoga?
Yoga facilitators do not physically adjust participants in this type of yoga. You will be encouraged to make choices during class on what works best for you. Taking effective action based on what feels right to you is woven throughout trauma sensitive yoga classes. Enhancing present moment awareness & practicing yoga in community with others also promotes healing.
Being trained in yoga, reiki and somatic interventions along with evidence based trauma treatment allows me to weave the benefits of both into your practice. Learning to ground yourself in your body creates an opportunity to also create healing in your mind and heart space. Our own wisdom can come through much more clearly when the body is calm. This is the space where we can better decide what we want in our life.
Practicing yoga with other people who have a shared goal of healing builds a healing community outside of a therapy office. It’s an opportunity to reconnect to yourself, while you connect with others and for some, it allows reconnection to a higher purpose.
In a 2018 study, findings revealed that a single session of psychotherapeutic yoga decreased anxiety and increased subjective well-being, even after controlling for therapist variability, prior yoga experience and client diagnosis.” (“Psychotherapeutic yoga demonstrates immediate positive effects”, 2018).
Benefits
Benefits of practicing yoga for emotional wellness include:
Feeling grounded & in a more neutral state because the parasympathetic nervous system is activated during yoga practice. This helps calm stress responses in the body
Distinguishing cues- listening to when your body wants you to respect a limit & not “push through” or perhaps deciding you can challenge yourself in a posture
Taking the concepts from yoga off the mat to your daily life
Being part of a healing community
Accessing a form of healing that even successful therapy cannot get to because it’s a different mechanism for change
Can improve heart rate variability (HRV). HRV represents the variability of the heart rate in response to stress. Trauma survivors tend to have low HRV, decreasing the ability to self regulate. Yoga can help HRV in a way talk therapy cannot.
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