Yoga is becoming increasingly popular in mental health settings, and trauma-informed practices are making their way treatment centers, community programs, yoga studios, and beyond. As these practices gain popularity, providers eager to offer yoga often step into the work without a clear understanding of important theoretical and philosophical foundations. In this session, Lisa will share a foundational theory in trauma recovery and explore how yoga can respond to the needs of trauma survivors in studios, clinics, hospitals, and beyond. You’ll learn some of the different types of trauma, and common ways trauma manifests in the mind and body, as well as an important perspective to bring when beginning somatic work. This session will also explore how yoga philosophy fosters healing, and offer you a mantra to recite when you’re preparing a trauma-informed space for your students and clients. This session closes with suggestions to help you keep your trauma work sustainable.
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 ...
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 ...
