Currently all classes are live streamed via Zoom
and offered in person.
Mon 9.30am & 6pm
Fri 9.30am
what is trauma aware yoga?
Trauma-aware yoga practice offers a safe and sensitive space for everyone to learn self regulation and self awareness skills that build sustainable resilience. It is about feeling safe and at-home in our bodies by offering choice. Anxiety and depression, are often the result of unresolved trauma.
Some principles you will find in Kendra's trauma aware classes are;
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Recognition that you are the expert of your body and experiences.
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Safety and comfort are the foundation of the practice.
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Focus is on developing interoception, an experience of a 'felt sense'.
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Recognition that offering choices empowers you to choose what feels right for your body at any moment.
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Minimize over stimulation of senses by dimming lights, not using oils or incense and use of sanskrit language.
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Assumption that everyone in the class has suffered some form of trauma.
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Acknowledgment that some body shapes and yoga props might make students feel vulnerable.
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Use of invitational language allows self agency.
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Use of rhythms to offer grounding and feeling of safety.
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Practicing present moment awareness.
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The use of touch is with permission and with the intention to increase interoception not force the body into an ideal shape.
