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In order to make a connection between yoga and trauma we must first set some guidelines as to what these principles mean. We have come to understand trauma as the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one’s ability to cope or integrate the emotions involved with the experience. These adverse experiences can remain tucked away in the body’s tissues for months, years, an entire lifetime, and even be transferred through generations. In the wild, animals instinctually shake off...

Thank you Kristen for understanding how trauma can live within us at a cellular level. But more importantly for providing a means to become aware and to discharge some of the energies that can be harmful to us personally and generationally.

Great post. Affirms, confirms so much I've read and experienced. I'm going to share this post on the ACEs Connection staff page! I believe my AC team members will love it. Thanks for writing this!

Please join us for our new series entitled: Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice. This monthly virtual Zoom series will feature conversations facilitated by Dr. Porter Jennings-McGarity, PhD/LCSW, PACEs Connection’s criminal justice consultant, with special guests to discuss the need for trauma-informed criminal justice system reform. Using a PACEs-science lens, this series will examine the relationship between trauma and the criminal justice system, what needs changing, and strategies being...