Anneke Lucas developed the Unconditional Model during a decade of service to survivors of extreme trauma, both as the founder and Executive Director of her non-profit organization Liberation Prison Yoga and in communities of survivors of sex trafficking and sexual abuse. The Model is based on an analysis of those people who were able to break through Anneke's own thick defense mechanism as a survivor of child sex trafficking. Certain people were able to make a difference, whereas healing modalities such as yoga or therapy were meaningless tools unless a heart connection was made with the provider. The Unconditional Model focuses on the first step of healing trauma and looks at external and interpersonal power dynamics as a way to uncover and heal from unresolved trauma. The Unconditional Model can be used by anyone in the process of healing from trauma and offers support for therapists, program providers and yoga instructors.
The ability to tolerate opposites in human experience is considered to be an important if not the most important qualification for personal and spiritual development as all other qualifications can be seen as difficult to achieve without this capacity, called affect tolerance in psychology and ti...
In this talk Dr. Syedullah sits with the archives of Black feminist practices of abolitionist homemaking, caretaking, and truancy in order to imagine freedom beyond the juridical binary of citizen versus captive. Dr. Syedullah will consider what Black fugitive orientations to freedom are born of ...
This seminar will review polyvagal theory and its convergence with yoga therapy both in reference to a therapeutic framework and specific application. The seminar will be both didactic and experiential followed by time for a Q and A. The discussion will focus on the relationship of the neural pla...
