A personal note from Margaret
Thank you for visiting our page about yoga for healing trauma. First, it's important to remind guests that what we are offering is not to be interpreted in any way as a prescribed cure or medical care for treating psychological trauma or PTSD. I am simply offering the tools that made a big difference in how I managed deep seated inner pain from a combination of adverse childhood experiences and the many years that would follow covering this pain up until it would not longer be ignored. Fortunately, that was when I discovered Kundalini Yoga.
My whole life I have been active and athletic. I played sports through college and could pick up any physical activity without much challenge. I also took dance and many forms of yoga classes in myyears. However, despite all of this, nothing really helped the constant repetitive negative thinking, self numbing, and the many forms of self sabotage and self abuse that so many of us secretly try to manage in everyday life. On the surface I was a successful, savvy young woman, on the inside I was a rudderless ship in dark stormy seas.
It wasn't until I decided to take a Kundalini Yoga class from the teachers that would eventually be the teachers I would study with for my certification when I discovered the powerful tools that finally FINALLY helped me realize what it felt like to lift my mental needle of this broken record of the mind. In the beginning it was a brief experience and when that skipping negative music would begin playing again, I would go
“Over the next four days, write down your deepest emotions and thoughts about the emotional upheaval that has been influencing your life the most. In your writing, really let go and explore the event and how it has affected you. You might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now. Write continuously for 20 minutes a day.”
Also, look into Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
A growing body of research indicates that individuals who’ve practiced mindfulness meditation and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) show an increase in gray matter in the same parts of the brain that are damaged by Adverse Childhood Experiences and shifts in genes that regulate their physiological stress response. According to Trish Magyari, LCPC, a mindfulness-based psychotherapist and researcher who specializes in trauma and illness, adults suffering from PTSD due to childhood sexual abuse who took part in a “trauma-sensitive” MBSR program, had less anxiety and depression, and demonstrated fewer PTSD symptoms, even two years after taking the course
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There are many medications you can take that dampen the sympathetic nervous system (which ramps up your stress response when you come into contact with a stressor), but there aren’t any medications that boost the parasympathetic nervous system (which helps to calm your body down after the stressor has passed). Your breath is the best natural calming treatment—and it has no side effects.
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There is a Zen teaching that says “The most important thing is remembering the most important thing.” It is helpful to recall at the start of each sitting what matters to you, what draws you to meditate. Take a few moments to connect in a sincere way with your heart’s aspiration. You might sense this as a prayer that in some way dedicates your practice to your own spiritual freedom, and that of all beings.
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When children face ACEs, they often store decades of physical tension from a fight, flight, or freeze state of mind in their bodies. PET scans show that yoga decreases blood flow to the amygdala, the brain’s alarm center, and increases blood flow to the frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex, which help us to react to stressors with a greater sense of equanimity. Yoga has also be found to increase levels of GABA—or gamma-aminobutyric acid—a chemical that improves brain function, promotes calm, and helps to protect us against depression and anxiety.
Thank you for visiting our page about yoga for healing trauma. First, it's important to remind guests that what we are offering is not to be interpreted in any way as a prescribed cure or medical care for treating psychological trauma or PTSD. I am simply offering the tools that made a big difference in how I managed deep seated inner pain from a combination of adverse childhood experiences and the many years that would follow covering this pain up until it would not longer be ignored. Fortunately, that was when I discovered Kundalini Yoga.
My whole life I have been active and athletic. I played sports through college and could pick up any physical activity without much challenge. I also took dance and many forms of yoga classes in myyears. However, despite all of this, nothing really helped the constant repetitive negative thinking, self numbing, and the many forms of self sabotage and self abuse that so many of us secretly try to manage in everyday life. On the surface I was a successful, savvy young woman, on the inside I was a rudderless ship in dark stormy seas.
It wasn't until I decided to take a Kundalini Yoga class from the teachers that would eventually be the teachers I would study with for my certification when I discovered the powerful tools that finally FINALLY helped me realize what it felt like to lift my mental needle of this broken record of the mind. In the beginning it was a brief experience and when that skipping negative music would begin playing again, I would go
“Over the next four days, write down your deepest emotions and thoughts about the emotional upheaval that has been influencing your life the most. In your writing, really let go and explore the event and how it has affected you. You might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now. Write continuously for 20 minutes a day.”
Also, look into Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
A growing body of research indicates that individuals who’ve practiced mindfulness meditation and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) show an increase in gray matter in the same parts of the brain that are damaged by Adverse Childhood Experiences and shifts in genes that regulate their physiological stress response. According to Trish Magyari, LCPC, a mindfulness-based psychotherapist and researcher who specializes in trauma and illness, adults suffering from PTSD due to childhood sexual abuse who took part in a “trauma-sensitive” MBSR program, had less anxiety and depression, and demonstrated fewer PTSD symptoms, even two years after taking the course
Plug into website:
There are many medications you can take that dampen the sympathetic nervous system (which ramps up your stress response when you come into contact with a stressor), but there aren’t any medications that boost the parasympathetic nervous system (which helps to calm your body down after the stressor has passed). Your breath is the best natural calming treatment—and it has no side effects.
Mention this in website
There is a Zen teaching that says “The most important thing is remembering the most important thing.” It is helpful to recall at the start of each sitting what matters to you, what draws you to meditate. Take a few moments to connect in a sincere way with your heart’s aspiration. You might sense this as a prayer that in some way dedicates your practice to your own spiritual freedom, and that of all beings.
4. Practice yoga. (add to website)
When children face ACEs, they often store decades of physical tension from a fight, flight, or freeze state of mind in their bodies. PET scans show that yoga decreases blood flow to the amygdala, the brain’s alarm center, and increases blood flow to the frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex, which help us to react to stressors with a greater sense of equanimity. Yoga has also be found to increase levels of GABA—or gamma-aminobutyric acid—a chemical that improves brain function, promotes calm, and helps to protect us against depression and anxiety.