We continue exploring how anxiety and fear behaves, especially in the light of Covid-19 measurements and quarantining. We might also feel anxiety and fear about society starting up again and streets becoming busier and back to “normal”. This can be shocking and anxiety provoking after a long time of the opposite. What happens after [...]
This month we would like to share with you some ways of how to deal with overthinking and the anxious thought patterns we all have, exploring one idea of how to manage anxiety and fear, and offering you some tools that you might find valuable. Many people are experiencing high levels of anxiety and [...]
When we speak about the importance of self-care, we think about how it might calm us down or how it teaches you to perhaps learn to know where your boundaries and tolerances lie. Or maybe you think about taking a bath, meditating and putting on a face-mask. One way or another, we are perhaps [...]
We believe that the practice of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TSY) must become available to anyone that might need it, regardless of race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, financial and physical ability.
By Josh Dickson & Amanda Zeisset Not all classrooms have four walls, and neither do all therapists’ around the world to a Moroccan a seaside village in hopes of transforming their lives by taking part in a Resurface surf-therapy retreat. Resurface is an evidence-based, non-pharmacological program designed to help people who operate their recovery. During [...]
New Online Classes with Esther on Monday Evenings (First Online Mixed Class) Esther has started a new online class on Monday evenings, the very first online mixed class. At the moment the participants identify as female, however joining these mixed classes is open to every gender identity, race, and sexual orientation. This makes [...]
by Thich Nhat Hahn. The Buddha taught that this is like this, because that is like that. You see? Because you smile, I am happy. This is like this, therefore that is like that. And that is like that because this is like this. This is called dependent co-arising. Suppose you and [...]
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Nederland team works to make Trauma-Sensitive Yoga accessible to all, we love to see initiatives like @clairelalande’s project in Lesvos. The literature on refugee trauma, universal trauma responses and yoga find consensus in what is important in refugee-trauma treatment: safety, empowerment and connection. Our study “Exploring the Efficacy of the Embodiment Practice that [...]
The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of practising yoga and its role within processes of healing for adult women with complex trauma histories. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, data were analyzed from interviews with 39 women. Results showed that the core meaning of participants' experience of healing through yoga is claiming [...]
Research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic childhood abuse have revealed that traditional trauma treatments often fail to fully address the complicated symptom presentation, including somatic complaints, loss of awareness of one’s emotional and physical being in the present moment, and overall lack of integration between the self and the body. The mindfulness-based intervention [...]