Trauma-sensitive yoga is a body-based intervention for treating emotional responses to trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. This book explains why yoga is a useful approach for trauma therapy and shows how to use this method in one-to-one and group settings. It also includes useful examples of non-triggering asanas and breathing exercises.

Trauma-sensitive yoga can be used in individual therapy and in groups to overcome trauma, by calming the nervous system as well as helping people to come out of dissociative states. This book explains how to use trauma-sensitive yoga safely and effectively to improve the emotional regulation, sense of self and self-determination of trauma survivors. It shows trauma therapists and yoga teachers how to use postures and breathing exercises in a trauma-sensitive way to support healing and growth. Drawing on her experience as both trauma therapist and yoga teacher, the author focuses on the body-mind connection and presents asanas and breathing exercises that can help traumatised people re-engage and take control of their bodies.

Traumatic events are more than a narrative or singular event in a person's life; the body remembers traumatic events and can experience them over and over, even after many years have passed. This book shows how trauma-sensitive yoga can be used in individual therapy and in groups to overcome trauma, by calming the nervous system and helping people to come out of dissociative states. The book also shows teachers how to detect when certain postures trigger anxiety, and offers ways to support healing in general yoga classes.

Drawing on her experience as both trauma therapist and yoga teacher, the author focuses on the body-mind connection and presents asanas and breathing exercises that can help traumatised patients re-engage and take control of their bodies.