TRAUMA-SENSITIVE YOGA
Journey to the Heart of Metta-Morphosis
This comprehensive training focuses on understanding the multi-faceted world of trauma and it’s impact on our bodies, minds and souls.
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
We will learn how to reframe trauma’s negative effects into opportunities to be wiser and more self-loving, yoking with the heart through mindful yoga practices. As we unpack the pranic implications of holding trauma in the body, we’ll discover that the unwinding and thawing of this ‘frozen potential’ allows greater possibilities for stability, self acceptance, healing and vitality to emerge.
KIND WORDS
“This training provided the motivation to create change from within and share that with our communities. Now, I really feel inspired to teach! Alana’s authenticity, sense of humor and constant source of positive energy and strength were most appreciated. The love, care and details put into this program were apparent and held enormous value.”
What will I be able to do?
Upon completion of this course, you will be well-equipped with a ‘toolkit’ to offer private sessions and classes with greater sensitivity to trauma and yoga’s role in relieving its symptoms. You’ll have the confidence to help your students ‘come home’ to themselves in a way that fosters deeper embodiment, encourages self-listening, establishes safety and enlivens the muscle of trust.
This training is suitable for yoga teachers and practitioners interested in understanding trauma and how to relieve its symptoms naturally.
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What’s included?
Due to the intricate nature of this work, we will practice listening and feedback skills that fortify personal boundaries and cultivate a well-contained, loving presence for our students and ourselves. Training will also include:
The signature symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress (PTS-D) and how to recognize it in ourselves and/or our students.
Relieving traumatic stress from the vantage points of Yoga, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Shamanic cosmology.
Yoga Nidra – it’s quiet power and capacity for quantum leaps in consciousness.
Pratyahara – fine-tuning the inner eye and inner ear for greater proprioceptive awareness and presencing.
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Aroma as a healing agent, plus specific protocols that anoint the body with essential oils for nervous system tonification and PTS-D relief.
Embryonic origins of the nervous system.
Teachings on Yoga and the nervous system: sympathetic and parasympathetic pendulation; the vagus nerve and its crucial role in digestion and cultivating resilience; asana, pranayama and meditation practices that recalibrate the nervous system and release trauma granthis; bilateral practices that help integrate our experiences.
Mantra, sounding and using our voice for healing.
The empowering news emerging from the fields of neuroscience and psychoimmunology that confirm we are naturally wired for self-healing
Self-care practices to keep us well-boundaried, nourished and energized.
KIND WORDS
“I thought I already knew a lot about teaching and trauma, yet it turns out I didn’t know some very important concepts and practices. I have learned so much about trauma-sensitive yoga that will greatly enhance my teaching of veterans at the army base. I have many more tools to draw from now, and I feel I will be a much more effective teacher.”
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