Episode #80: Trauma Informed Yoga with Anthea Taeuber - a podcast by The Rat Race Revolution Podcast
from 2022-04-14T13:00
Have you ever had to deal with a student suffering from trauma or PTSD in your yoga class?
Or do you want to overcome your own trauma safely through your own yoga practices?
In this episode Anthea shares her experiences, knowledge, and guidance on teaching yoga in a trauma-informed way.
She explains how and why these tips and cues can help students managing with different types of traumas.
Plus delivers some incredibly practical teaching advice.
She provides usable tips on teaching, and how to make your classes more trauma-informed.
Plus she shares how you can apply this to your own practice too.
Listen to the full episode to get the complete scoop!
Episode Breakdown:
- (06:14) What is cognitive neuroscience?
- (09:27) Defining trauma…
- (13:18) EMDR therapy
- (15:46) Right and left brain emotions and logic
- (18:00) Regulating your amygdala
- (19:04) Trauma triggers in yoga
- (22:55) Language and allowing space in your class
- (29:00) Energetic and visual cues can be great alternatives to physical adjustments
- (33:24) Savasana can be triggering for PTSD and trauma
- (36:44) Pose awareness, which poses trigger you
- (41:35) Bilateral stimulation poses
- (44:40) Metaphors and visualisations
- (52:33) Acroyoga can be a powerful healing tool for trauma
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More about Anthea:
Anthea is a trauma informed yoga, meditation and journaling guide. In 2021 she started a nonprofit called The Healing Quotient that gives "therapy grants" to individuals recovering from trauma or seeking wellness resources, by providing online access to mental health resources including funding for EMDR therapy with fully licensed professionals. She's also the creator of 3MinMeds, a weekly 3 minute meditation hosted on Smalltalk (a new audio-only platform for creators). All proceeds from 3MinMeds go to fund therapy for minds in need. You can join her community chat called The Healing Quo on telegram for more information!
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Related episode links:
https://podcast.goingproyoga.com/episode-68-trauma-informed-with-rusty-price/
https://podcast.goingproyoga.com/episode-43-benefits-of-practicing-acro-yoga-with-caspian-burrell/
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