Yoga Therapy happens within a therapeutic relationship. Yoga therapy is a trauma-sensitive, somatic approach  that works with the nervous system, supporting people living with PTSD, complex trauma, chronic pain, anxiety, and stress-related conditions. Yoga classes can be a supportive practice for wellbeing. Yoga therapy, however, is a clinically informed, personalised somatic therapy  designed to support people living with PTSD, complex trauma, chronic pain, anxiety, and ner

Trauma-sensitive yoga practice supporting ethical living What might living yoga look like for you? When we practise yoga over time, something subtle begins to happen. We start listening more closely — to the body, to our inner responses, to what feels true. From that listening, a sense of alignment can begin to form. Some things ask to shift. Some to soften. Some simply to be accepted. For me, yoga created a pause where this kind of listening became possible. A respect for in

I’ve been sitting with something I heard recently in a conversation about mental health diagnosis — and it’s stayed with me. More than that, it’s left me feeling quietly hopeful. Perhaps we’re headed toward a day where a diagnosis is less of an albatross for an individual and more of a red flag that an entire system needs to be attended to — perhaps healed. This reflection, shared by Dave Emerson , names something many people already sense in their bodies. For a long time, me

Why Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapy Has Always Worked With Titration and Pendulation The Rhythmic Intelligence Yoga Has Always Known In trauma-aware healing today, we often hear the words titration  and pendulation  — terms used in somatic trauma therapy to describe how the nervous system restores itself safely. What’s important to name is this: Yoga therapy has always understood these principles. Long before modern neuroscience, yoga recognised that healing does not occur thro