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How to Incorporate the Power of Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Dr. Arielle Schwartz, author of the newly released Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Flip Chart, shares how to incorporate the principles of polyvagal theory, affective neuroscience, and trauma-informed care into your therapy office.
What is Enough?
What does it mean to have 鈥渆nough鈥? 小蝌蚪视频 author Joanne Spence explores the downward spiral of our ever-present desire to have more, do more, and be more 鈥 and how to come back to the present and to a place of gratitude.
How Yoga Promotes Both Top-Down and Bottom-Up Regulation in Trauma Survivors
Discover how yoga can discharge memories stored in the nervous system of trauma survivors
Irina Diyankova, PhD, RYT-200 reveals how yoga stimulates both top-down and bottom-up regulation, which can help trauma survivors reset their nervous systems back to baseline.
A Single Goal: How the Aim of Yoga and Mental Health Counselors are One and the Same
Discover how the ancient practice of yoga fits in perfectly with trauma treatment
Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD provides a short summary of yoga philosophy and reveals why it鈥檚 a fantastic complementary therapy for trauma survivors.
How Trauma Creates Narrow 鈥淲indows of Tolerance鈥 in Survivors
Why trauma survivors react dramatically to stimulus, and how you can help them handle stress in healthy ways
Trauma survivors can struggle to self-regulate and control their responses to everyday stressors and the unexpected. In this short video, Irina Diyankova, Ph.D., RYT-200 reveals why trauma survivors are more prone to extreme reactions to stress such as rage, binge drinking and self-harm.
Introduction to Yoga for Trauma Treatment
Adding simple yoga poses to talk therapy can help your clients break the crippling grip of trauma faster (NO yoga certification or crazy flexibility required)
Irina Diyankova, PhD, RYT-200 busts some stubborn myths about yoga and who it鈥檚 for (hint: It鈥檚 NOT just for skinny, flexible people). You鈥檒l also discover the many benefits of using yoga in trauma treatment.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on Interoception & Yoga
Effective Trauma Treatment
It鈥檚 frustrating when your client gets stuck 鈥 overwhelmed by fear, shame, helplessness...Here鈥檚 one solution that鈥檚 extremely effective in moving therapy forward.
19 Best Books of 2019
These top selling titles are highly purchased and praised by your colleagues and even some clients
2019 was a year of great growth in awareness and social acceptance towards mental health. These 19 titles are our most popular and highly praised resources with professionals and lay-people alike.
Calm & Alert
Yoga and mindfulness practices to teach self-regulation and social skills to children.
Calm and Alert is an innovative approach to teaching self-regulation and social skills to children by utilizing their bodies, minds, and breath through yoga and mindfulness practices. Get started with three basic practices available for FREE here.
When Therapeutic Breathing Isn't Effective
You don't always have to know what's going on with your clients in order to help them...I had a client that just didn't benefit from therapeutic breathing, so I tried something different. Let me show you in this short video.