Yoga: How We Serve Survivors of Violence and Toxic Stress

Yoga instructor Maggie Cohen. Credit: Huffington Post

This is an interview with Maggie Cohen, a 500-hour advanced vinyasa yoga instructor and proud member of The Breathe Network, an international network of sliding scale, holistic practitioners who offer services for survivors of sexual violence.

Rob: What originally motivated you to do this work, and what continues to motivate you? How, if at all, has that motivation changed over time?

Before I discovered trauma-sensitive yoga, I was living two separate lives, one as an activist and one as a yoga instructor. As I deepened my work with survivors of violence, it was clear that all of us carry our stories within our bodies. I became fascinated by how trauma affects the brain and how it manifests in the body. I realized that I could offer a more profound level of healing by fusing my passions and working from the "bottom up."

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