Please click on the picture to watch a sort video, on how exercise, meditation to help combat depression. As we know depression affects people of all ages from all walks of life. But researchers have now come up with what looks like a winning combination to handle it without drugs or a doctor. Discovering that [...]
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation The strongest scientific evidence to date that meditation has positive health benefits comes from two meta-analyses (analyses of data pooled from multiple studies) of meditation research. The first meta-analysis of 47 trials with 3,515 participants found that people participating in mindfulness meditation programs experienced less anxiety, depression, and pain. The second meta-analysis of [...]
What Is EMDR? Many clients, including the public and colleagues are asking me questions about EMDR treatment for complex trauma and PTSD. I thought I would take the opportunity this week to answer a few of the questions asked. EMDR has proven to be a powerful treatment for people who have experienced traumatic events in [...]
Learning to release trauma before we pass it on to the next generation PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. ― Susan Pease Banitt Intergenerational Trauma is the idea that serious trauma can affect the children and grandchildren of those who had the first hand experience, due [...]
There is a clear link between pain and depression, but does pain make us depressed, or does depression cause pain? It’s easy to imagine that people with persistent pain have cause to become depressed. After all, it’s a problem that affects every part of life, not just the bit that got injured. But like so [...]
Written by Bo Forbes What does it mean to be embodied? And doesn’t yoga already take care of that? When we take a closer look, the answer might surprise us. Think of embodiment on a continuum. On one end we have exteroception, in the middle proprioception, and on the far end interoception. Each of these [...]
What is Interoception? Interoception is our ability to notice what you are feeling. This includes feeling if we you hot or cold, whether you are in pain, hungry or thirsty or even whether you feel happy, sad, safe or frightened. During Trauma Sensitive Yoga classes or private sessions clients will be invited to use simple body [...]
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an empirically validated, adjunctive clinical treatment for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD. Developed at the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, TSY has foundations in Trauma Theory, Attachment Theory, and Neuroscience as well as Hatha Yoga practice with an emphasis on body-based yoga forms and breathing practices. What is Trauma Sensitive [...]
The following video provide an overview of how EMDR is used in therapy, and information on the research into how and why EMDR works. Dr Andrew Leeds, PhD, discusses some of the research about how and why EMDR works. Why EMDR Therapy works? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWyDWvMEl1E#action=share
Claiming Peaceful Embodiment Through Yoga in the Aftermath of Trauma. Please follow the link below to read the full article. Abstract: The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of practicing yoga and its role within processes of healing for adult women with complex trauma histories. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, data were [...]