Re-Growing Our Wings: A Yoga Workshop for People Healing from Trauma
Presented by The Dove Project
A 4-Week Yoga series for people who have experienced trauma.
In this series, we will use trauma-informed yoga practices as tools to address trauma symptoms and triggers, specifically addressing the challenges of this pandemic on our nervous systems, and the ways that may affect prior or current trauma, and working with this collective, shared trauma.
Trauma is an injury, in relation to an event or life situation, that overwhelms the nervous system, altering the way we relate to ourselves, and the world. It is not a story that simply happened in the past; it creates an imprint of fear held in the body, creating a chronic and ongoing set of adaptive responses that continue to tax our entire systems. This imprint can show up in many ways, and may appear to be only in the mind. However, research shows us that trauma is a physical experience and is held in the body, directly affecting a person’s thinking and how they show up in the world. For healing to occur, reconnecting to our bodies, their instincts, and their resources of feeling and wisdom can be crucial. This time of pandemic is deeply challenging and feeling isolated can be a trigger for many, as can be being without solitude and/or physical touch and/ or presence.
Yoga can be a wonderful tool in the healing process. The practice of yoga can allow us to create a safe space within ourselves to reconnect the parts of us that may feel severed or lost. It can allow us to build tools to find a sense of spaciousness and connection within our own situations, whatever they are. As this reconnection occurs, yoga can teach us to calm our nervous systems with breath, physical poses, and meditation; and to gradually undo the chronic tension, pain, and emotional and physical responses resulting from the trauma’s imprint. Yoga also teaches us that we are already whole, and that our identity is not the experiences we go through, but the self that can touch on peace, self-understanding, and joy regardless of our circumstances.
No experience necessary; all are welcome.
Online. Disabilities and movement restrictions are welcome- just let me know so I can address your situation specifically but anonymously.
Thursdays May 7-28, 2020
530-645pm
cost: FREE
To register please contact: nyn@vashondoveproject.org