Trauma-informed Yoga

Yoga unfurls the grasp of experiences held within the grooves of the body.

We could all benefit from trauma-conscious teaching and lifestyle, because we all have trauma that too easily slides into repeatable patterns through our life.

If a teacher labels themself as trauma-informed, they should have the experience and training to understand their students’ needs, hold space for difficult emotions, and teach with a modern understanding of the nervous-system while pulling from the deep healing practices of yoga.

While I do not like to take yoga too seriously, I treat the “trauma-conscious yoga” label very seriously, and believe that healing the nervous-system through yoga leads us to feel better, healthier, and more connected.

All of my classes are taught from a trauma conscious lens, and I build specific trauma-informed classes to help people in trauma recovery learn how to feel at home in their own body.

Trauma informed yoga classes can help us by:

• Perceiving the aches and pains inside our body (meaning, increase interoception)

• Feel less clumsy (meaning, increase proprioception)

• Recover self-awareness

• Practice non-judgment towards ourselves and others

• Unearth deeply held emotions

• Smile, again.