Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment

This was a reading requirement for my Yoga to Transform Trauma certification with Catherine Ashton. I am not a certified therapist/counselor (but I am a yoga teacher) so this insight was very enlightening. I would read the WHOLE BOOK through its entirety before setting-and-forgetting. It's a slow start whether you're already educated in this field or not but I promise its worth it to understand how trauma is linked, or more like a block, in the mind body connection. This is a very quick read with great photo & verbal instruction using inventory language.

As a Psychotherapist and yogi, I had a keen interest in reading this book. Happily, it didn’t disappoint me.The material is explained in a very clear, caring way. Pictures of the various poses are included.While I don’t do actual physical work in my practice, I do make somatic suggestions. The book gave me some very helpful tips for how to phrase these in the least invasive or threatening way possible.I have since gone back to re-read some of my bookmarked pages and found their reminders very helpful.

So excited to read this book as my journey as a therapist and yoga teacher continues

I enjoyed a lot this book, I read it in a couple of days. Now I learned a lot about Trauma Sensitive Yoga one thing that I really liked where the exercises and the stories of people who have tried this type of therapy.

I ended up ordering the audio version of this book as well. Easier to listen than to read. Small print. Technical subject matter. This book was used as a text book for my certification in trauma yoga. By far the most practical of my three textbooks. I wish I had completed this one first.

The book was very useful for preparing to teach my own trauma sensitive yoga class. It will also great to use as a reference throughout my yoga teaching career.

A great and informative read. Having taken a workshop with David Emerson, I have a better understanding of trauma (in all of it's many guises). A must for yoga instructors who are interested in expanding their services to students who may or may not have suffered from complex trauma or who would appreciate the invitational and sensitive language used in TSY. Includes exercises to help facilitate present moment experiences.

I have experienced interception and rhythmic attunement during trauma informed yoga with other trauma survivors. This book gave me a way to further my efforts to help myself and others in yoga classes to consider the bodily experiences in approaching and moving into & out of a form. Having a language provided to facilitate this process is valuable.

Outstanding book for yoga teachers to become more informed on trauma sensitive yoga.

para los que estan interesados en juntar ambas ciencias, es un libro basico, facil de entender y que da pie a seguir invenstigando. una buena compra

A must for all therapists using bodywork in the treatment of trauma

I heard about this practice and author through a yoga teacher training program. Although this is aimed at professionals in psychology for example, the book gives lots of excellent advice and examples of what it means to do yoga with someone who has experienced trauma. This will inform my practice and teaching as a yoga teacher.

Good yoga practices!