Building Safety with Trauma-Informed Yoga

Building Safety with Trauma-Informed Yoga is an accessible, science-based guide for clinicians, yoga teachers, teachers in training, and practitioners. Readers will find free downloadable support materials on the author's website, including handouts, flyers, scripts, and audio and video recordings.

Autorentext

Yael Calhoun, MS, MA, E-RTY, is the author or series editor of more than 20 books and manuals, including Trauma-informed Yoga for Pain Management: A Practical Manual for Simple Stretching, Gentle Strengthening, and Mindful Breathing. Yael is the executive director of GreenTREE Yoga®, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the benefits of yoga to underserved populations and to those who work with them (www.greentreeyoga.org).

Klappentext

Building Safety with Trauma-Informed Yoga is an accessible, science-based guide for clinicians, yoga teachers, teachers in training, and practitioners. Readers will find free downloadable support materials on the author's website, including handouts, flyers, scripts, and audio and video recordings.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Science: Be Informed and Be Inspired Part One: Preparing to Teach 2. Language 3. The Yoga Space 4. Classroom Management 5. For Teachers, Clinicians, and Health Care Providers Part Two: Teaching Protocols 6. The Breath: Considerations 7. Suggested Breathwork 8. The Practice: Considerations 9. Steps to Creating Your Practice 10. Immigrant/Refugee/ESOL Populations 11. Trauma-informed Phrases and Practice Sequences/Photos Appendix A: Practice Scripts for Chapter 5 Appendix B: Supplemental Resources