Just where you are – that’s the place to start.
Pema Chodron
Just where you are – that’s the place to start.
Pema Chodron
Why Yoga?
Traumatic experiences, especially chronic trauma in childhood, can actually “wire” your brain for danger, causing stress responses (such as feeling very escalated/on-edge or shutdown, fatigued and numb) to fire too quickly and frequently. Yogic practices like movement, breathwork, grounding and meditation can actually help “rewire” your brain to access states of safety and peace more often!
Yogic practices can:
- Build confidence, awareness, and a sense of empowerment
- Help you learn to regulate your mood and shift your body and mind back to states of safety, even in difficult life situations
- Help lessen constant hypervigilance (that “on-edge” feeling)
- Help lessen numbing/disconnecting to avoid uncomfortable emotions
- Help develop clarity and present-minded thinking (vs. being stuck in worrying about the past or future)
- Increase strength, flexibility, and ease chronic muscle aches and pains caused by stress
- Help with falling and staying asleep
- Help you learn to shift back to state of calm and peace