YOGA CLASSES IN BRADDON AND PHILLIP

 

Trauma-sensitive yoga practice offers a safe and sensitive space for you to learn self-regulation and self-awareness skills that build a sustainable resilience. It is about learning to feel safe and at home in your body by practicing embodied choice making, and taking effective action.

 

Anxiety and depression, are often the result of unresolved trauma and trauma sensitive yoga offers practices that may help bring awareness to your nervous system and its survival responses, which in turn help you integrate stressful experiences.

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There are 4 key themes;

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Practice making choices

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Present Moment Experience

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Taking Effective Action

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Creating Rhythms

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You might;

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recognize that you are the expert of your body and experiences

experience the freedom to choose as a foundations of your practice

develop interoception, an experience of a 'felt sense'

feel more empowered as you practice choosing what feels right for your body at any moment

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Kendra will:

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minimize potential triggers such as touch, lighting, oils or incense, and Sanskrit language

recognize that everyone in the group has suffered some form of trauma

use invitational language allowing you more self-agency

offer you a choice of rhythms so you can sense into what feels useful

guide you into practicing present moment awareness.

 not force your body into an ideal shape or alignment, but guide you into your own internal sensations

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