Trauma Informed Yoga and Mindfulness
What Is Mindfulness?
Learning mindfulness can be truly life changing. It is the practice of gently bringing your awareness into the present moment. Learning to meet your thoughts, emotions, and sensations with curiosity, compassion, and acceptance. It is a fundamental principle of the work I do. We learn to leave behind the past, and not worry about the future. We use the breath as a tool to anchor awareness inward, making breathwork an essential and transformative part of this practice.
It’s a simple but powerful way to calm the nervous system, ease stress, and cultivate a sense of inner steadiness and we use the breath as a tool to anchor awareness inward, making breathwork an essential and transformative part of this practice.
I offer mindfulness as a therapeutic tool to support trauma recovery, post traumatic growth, stress regulation, and emotional resilience. This approach isn’t about “emptying the mind”, it’s about developing a kinder relationship with your inner experience, moment by moment.
I also encorporate the practice of mindfulness in my weekly yoga class. We move slowly and mindfully creating these pathways in the brain to keep bringing us into the present moment. We explore movement, breathwork and short meditations. You don’t need any experience to join in.
Cultivating mindfulness through the practice of yoga and meditation has been the most powerful tool in helping me return to my centre and find inner peace. There has been lots of scientific studies on the benefits of the brain during mediation. If you’re curious to learn more, just click here to read a recent paper.
What Makes It Trauma Informed?
Approaching this practice through a trauma-informed lens means creating a sense of safety first and foremost.
Sessions are guided with gentle pacing, choice, and respect for your boundaries, so you remain in control of your experience. The space is held with care, allowing the body, mind, and nervous system to release tension, process trauma safely, and reconnect with inner wisdom.
Learning the practice of moving through life with mindfulness helps trauma survivors reconnect with the present moment, creating space between old triggers and automatic reactions. By cultivating awareness, calm, and self-compassion, it supports nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and a renewed sense of safety in the body, helping you move from surviving to truly living.
I weave these evidence-informed techniques into sessions to help you reconnect with your body through gentle restorative yoga postures and somatic movement so yo ucan start finding and calm safety in the present.
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