Trauma-informed Yoga is an illustrated guide on how yoga can help people recover from trauma, including sexual assault. This book fills a gap in services to offer body-based compassionate healing for survivors. You can also purchase a trauma yoga flip chart for professionals and yoga teachers.
Talk to a qualified teacher if pregnant or for medical conditions. Avoid inversions for eye problems and during menstruation.
Also read Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy, a book by a trained yoga therapist to help refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants with mental health issues like post-traumatic stress disorder to heal, due to trauma experienced before, during and after fleeing their country of origin. People often forget that people who ‘arrive on boats’ may have survived, but may well have fled torture, and even seen children drown in front of them, during the trips. How long would that take you to recover from?
This jute & natural rubber yoga mat is lightweight for travel, made from nontoxic materials, gives good grip in postures, yet is cushioned enough to protect your joints. Many yoga mats are made from PVC that makes you sweat when you do poses. Not for latex allergies.
About the Author
Zabie Yamasaki is a registered yoga teacher who is a survivor of abuse, and now trains others in practices to help heal trauma. Not only from physical pain and emotional unrest, but for anyone to learn to ‘turn off’ constant thoughts and triggers of any trauma of the past.
Also a psychologist, she has even received an award from a rape crisis centre in California and has trained thousands of yoga teachers in her methods, with her program now taught at over 40 college campuses and trauma agencies in North America.
