Stress is an inevitable part of our daily life. However, when we don’t have positive ways to deal with our stress, we can find ourselves anxious or depressed. Also, you may lash out at your parents, significant others, or friends. Perhaps, you may be managing relationship issues, body image issues, work related stress, or are in a state of transition. Maybe, you find yourself fearful of going to work because you are being discriminated against for the way you dress or choose to identify your gender. Perhaps you find that you are becoming isolated due to the fact that you can only express yourself to your parents, friends or partner, through anger. Perhaps, even, you find that you get intense anxiety when taking a test, eating around others, or communicating your needs, which make it hard for you to remain present to the current situation
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Do you find yourself trying to cope with anxiety by drinking more than usual?
If you are eating too much or too little, or even sleeping less or more than usual, I specialize in anxiety counseling. In order to handle our life stressors in positive and more adaptive ways, we must find tools. For instance, tools can help your mind and body come back to a state of calm. Trauma Informed Yoga is just one such tool that can be employed to lower your body’s reactionary response to stress. Through slow, mindful movement, breathwork and meditation, your body learns how to become calm. Therefore, Trauma Informed Yoga encourages interoceptive awareness. This connection is of accepting thoughts, body sensations and emotions.
What’s the History of Trauma Informed Yoga?
When it comes to learning how to be less anxious, yoga can be an amazing skill. On that note, Trauma Informed Yoga was first implemented as a resource for chronic pain. Yoga helps those who experience chronic and prolong exposure to trauma. Furthermore, there are many useful tools that anyone who is experiencing temporary or more long-term stress can benefit from. The main basis of this form of yoga is to provide a calm, safe environment in which the mind and body can relax. We want the body to be able to have a space to rest and digest from all of the chaos it may be experiencing in the world outside of the setting. This safe and calm environment begins with the instructor.
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Trauma Informed Yoga: How To Be Less Anxious and Stress Less
In Trauma Informed Yoga, the instructor uses language which invites participants to try poses they feel comfortable in. Often, teachers provide several different modifications of a pose. Instructors also refrain from using Sanskrit names for poses. As well, poses with triggering names or triggering areas of the body are avoided. For instance, Trauma Informed Yoga refrains from referencing the final resting pose as corpse pose. This is due to the potentially triggering nature of this phrasing.
Trauma Informed Yoga engenders an inclusive, non-judgmental space where participants can choose their own path toward self-reflection, stress reduction, and inner peace.
Trauma Informed Yoga works to help someone who has experienced trauma build body awareness. For instance, you can then process and make confident decisions in your everyday life. Tools, such as mindfulness, offer a moment to moment awareness of the connection of the breath, body and mind. Mindfully attending to our breath enables us to slow down and become grounded in the present moment. Thus, Trauma Informed Yoga teaches us that in order to break free of the stress in your daily life. To reduce anxiety, we must take time to pause and reflect on what we are experiencing. Notice what tension might be in your body and thoughts.
Have you ever prepared for a presentation or test, only to find yourself with a stomachache?
Anxiety is your body’s evolutionary response of telling you that you are in danger and must flee from danger. While these events might not initially be assessed as dangerous, the way you sense and react to them is. In these moments, you need positive coping tools which allow you to remain balanced, stable and calm. On that note, your positive coping skills toolbox from counseling can help you be present. Then, you can overcome anxiety with a confident and poised demeanor.
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To continue, Keyra Scovill combines yoga and counseling for anxiety management. Also, Keyra specializes in helping teach skills for overcoming anxiety and trauma holistically. She helps people who have experienced long-term trauma. For instance, she incorporates breathing components of Trauma Informed Yoga for any stressful situation. In counseling, Keyra offers a unique holistic approach to trauma therapy in East Lyme, CT.
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Trauma Informed Yoga offers a safe, supportive environment to explore and be curious about our minds and bodies.
Also, Trauma Informed Yoga also offers gentle, mindful movements that allow the body the opportunity to rest and restore. To note, there is nothing you need to get out of Trauma Informed Yoga and there is no need for achievement. Rather, the purpose and goal of Trauma Informed Yoga is to allow you to process the connection between your thoughts, emotions and body sensations while learning to refrain from judging them. Trauma Informed Yoga teaches you how to remain calm amid chaos. Lastly, Trauma Informed Yoga offers you a space to get away from the rest of the world and decompress.
How does Trauma Informed Yoga Help You Release Stress in Your Mind, Body and Spirit?
Trauma Informed Yoga uses poses, breathwork and meditation to bring the body’s stress response back to balance. Mindfulness is an exercise that has been proven to bring our attention back into the present moment, while allowing us to fully comprehend and respond, not react to our situations. Why do I say respond, and not react? Well, as ventured into above, reacting, such as lashing out when someone says or does something we do not like, often leads to a rise in the body’s stress response, but also isolates us from others. In effect, being able to respond and present in a calm fashion our true needs and feelings often can make others empathetic and able to better hear what we are saying.
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Essentially, Trauma Informed Yoga allows us to slow down. From there, you can digest your feelings and make positive choices. Overall, yoga therapy helps you respond in a more positive fashion to stressful situations. Often, we face these in our day to day lives. After trauma, it is normal to feel highly anxious. For instance, you can be on your way to work and start crying uncontrollably. In counseling, you can process and heal safely. After trauma, you may yell, fly off the handle, or be more angry. Counseling helps you choose more effective ways to communicate with others. Take the pressure off yourself and call today, 860-451-9364. Overall, holistic counseling can help you confidently live in the present moment. And now, yoga.
