By Landon Funk, Tennessean., June 12, 2019.
You can’t go to therapy without first going to yoga – that’s my belief anyway. We store all of our thoughts, emotions and traumas in our bodies, predominantly in our shoulders and hips, which is why those areas are so tight all of the time. When we practice yoga, we access those uncomfortable traumas through movement and mindfulness. And in trauma-informed yoga, we sit with that discomfort and those painful memories, taking the time to process each one as they arise. Because once they are processed, once we have paid proper attention to them, we start to heal, turning that trauma from easily triggered to no longer bubbling up.
And who doesn’t want to get rid of the forever-festering fear of panic attacks, anxiety attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder episodes and depression?
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