TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE YOGA
UNITY OF MIND,
BODY, AND SOUL
Trauma-Responsive Yoga
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A safe, secure, and predictable environment surrounded by a like-minded community is the foundation for this type of practice.
While many regular yoga classes encourage students to move through emotional discomfort, trauma-informed yoga creates a safe space for people to pay attention to signs of dissociation and distress that may come up, and to stop whenever they need.
Trauma-informed yoga is less about how poses are executed and more about the feeling of embodiment (being within your body) within a pose. Establishing presence and finding a sense of grounding can help you connect to your mind and body in a way that feels secure.
As you are guided through a supportive experience, you may observe sensations and emotions that arise without feeling triggered or overwhelmed.
Trauma-Responsive Yoga
A safe, secure, and predictable environment surrounded by a like-minded community is the foundation for this type of practice.
While many regular yoga classes encourage students to move through emotional discomfort, trauma-informed yoga creates a safe space for people to pay attention to signs of dissociation and distress that may come up, and to stop whenever they need.
Trauma-informed yoga is less about how poses are executed and more about the feeling of embodiment (being within your body) within a pose. Establishing presence and finding a sense of grounding can help you connect to your mind and body in a way that feels secure.
As you are guided through a supportive experience, you may observe sensations and emotions that arise without feeling triggered or overwhelmed.
“The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself. If you are not able to care for yourself, how could you accept another person and how could you love him or her?
So it is necessary to come back to yourself in order to be able to achieve the transformation… Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself is the basic condition for helping someone else.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
