Trauma Informed Yoga

Trauma -- both witnessing it and experiencing it -- disrupts nearly all the body's systems. Long-term exposure to these physiological responses changes the ways we relate to our bodies. These changes are what psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk MD refers to in his bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score. Dr. van der Kolk's protocol for trauma-sensitive yoga centers practitioners' relationships to their own bodies, encouraging interoceptive awareness and supporting trauma witnesses and trauma survivors in heightening their sense of strength and agency.