Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapy builds relationship with your body. When “The Body Keeps the Score” Doesn’t Quite Land There is a lot of language right now about the body “storing trauma,” and while this idea has helped many people begin to make sense of their experience, it can also quietly reinforce the feeling that something is held inside you that needs to be found, released, or fixed. If you’ve come across the work of Bessel van der Kolk, you may recognise the phrase “the

A trauma-sensitive, body-led pathway to settling the nervous system “Within the aliveness of the relational field – despite the pain of the present, the traumas of the past, and the broken dreams of the future – you may see that it was only love after all, taking whatever form it must so that it may unfold itself into this world, in ways the mind may never understand.” — Matt Licata I remember lying in Śavāsana, completely still, but something in me was still moving — thought

Yoga, the Kleshas, and the Practice of Clear Seeing Across cultures and generations, human beings have wondered why certain patterns seem to repeat themselves. We see it in families, in relationships, and sometimes in the quiet ways we respond to our own lives. A reaction arises that feels strangely familiar. A dynamic returns that we thought we had already worked through. At times it can feel a little like déjà vu — the sense that we have somehow been here before. Over the

Vagus nerve mind-body pathway. Polyvagal Theory Polyvagal Theory is currently being called “untenable” by a group of scientists. There are formal critiques. There are published responses. There is strong opinion on both sides. As a yoga therapist who has worked clinically with bodies for more than three decades, I find this moment neither alarming nor dismissible. It invites reflection. Whenever a dominant framework is challenged, we are given an opportunity to examine what w