Healing Through Yoga
literature has started to demonstrate the importance
of helping patients with the management of
current problems with dissociation, affect regulation,
and altered relationships with themselves and others
prior to engaging them in trauma exposure
(traditional talk therapy)”
not being able to be present."
body needs to learn that the danger has
passed and to live in the reality of the present
Trauma Sensitive Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow
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Trauma Healing Through Yoga
RECLAIM YOUR BODY
If you are a trauma survivor, or if you have been experiencing trauma stresses, you might be inspired to develop a yoga practice. Through decades-long research we have now recognised that trauma plays out its debilitating course in the body. In trauma the body’s alarm systems turn on and then never quite turn off. Our primitive brain is constantly scanning for threat and we often suffer from being intensely on guard and not being able to truly relax and feel at ease. We might have trouble sleeping and winding down. But worst of all, trauma destroys our trust in our body and intuition. We perceive the body as unknown, unpredictable, and unreliable, sometimes even as “the enemy”. To be in the body becomes scary, and we develop all kinds of conscious and unconscious strategies and coping mechanisms to avoid experiencing this strenuous state of hyperarousal or hypoarousal.
But the good news is that it is possible to intervene directly in the body and to intentionally and systematically begin to turn the body’s own alarm system down.
In my Trauma Integration Yoga classes I draw on different body-based methods and exercises that have been scientifically proven to be successful, without the need for medication:
Yoga (trauma sensitive)
Somatic experience & NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Breath and Relaxation Techniques
I will guide you, step by step, to experience the present moment in a safe environment and without the need to speak about the trauma itself. You will be able to release “frozen” trauma stress through body-based interventions and learn to regulate the nervous system. You will develop a sense of self-control through techniques and tools focused on body awareness, breath and other internal resources.
How does Yoga help with Trauma?
Balances mental chaos and the dysregulated nervous system
Removes hormonal blockages and disbalances
Focuses on the present moment
Creates an open and free spirit
Therapeutic effects of yoga:
Acceptance-based coping
Increased body awareness
Self-control and agency = making choices
Self-efficacy = taking effective action
Client-based intervention
Stress release based on autonomous nervous system
