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Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body (2011)

by David Emerson(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1556439695 (ISBN13: 9781556439698)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

North Atlantic Books

review 1: I found this book helpful, though it is really just an introductory book designed to be useful to yoga teachers, yoga students, and therapists together. There is a section of suggested poses, and a lot of acknowledgement of the way that the experience of the body can be changed by trauma. As simple as it sounds, this was an eye opening book for me mostly because I recognized things I had always thought were just defective about myself and now realize are part of how I relate to my body. It has changed my approach to yoga actually, and I am seeing more benefit. I would recommend this as a starting place, and am actually glad to see that therapists are approaching people through other means than verbal communication.
review 2: I am a social worker & I have seen P... moreTSD like symptoms in nearly all of my clients, regardless of what their presenting problems were. Hell, even I have noticed PTSD symptoms in myself at times, like unconsciously holding my breath. How did I recognize this? Through yoga. In our society, not only have the majority of us experienced traumas of some sort, but we also place an emphasis on instant gratification. The combination of this is enough to have anyone running with their body in hyper vigilance mode, not just survivors of PTSD. This book does a great job exploring how yoga can help treat symptoms like lack of self regulation while reducing dissociative episodes and restoring awareness to the body's rhythm. Strongly grounded in the latest scientific research, the book presents yoga in a secular manner and teaches clinicians, yoga instructors, and survivors how to develop a mindfulness based trauma sensitive practice in order to invite one to inhabit their body once again. I cannot tell you enough how amazing this book is. less

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