Overcoming Trauma through Yoga

Reclaiming Your Body

De: David Emerson, Elizabeth Hopper Ph.D.

Narrado por: Kate Marcin

A trauma-informed approach to healing body and mind: an evidence-based yoga program for survivors, clinicians, and yoga teachers

Research-backed and trauma-informed, this book introduces a yoga program that helps readers heal from the cognitive, emotional, and physiological symptoms of PTSD. From managing triggers to accessing safety, the approaches and exercises presented in Overcoming Trauma through Yoga are deeply practical and grounded in what survivors need to know to heal from the effects of trauma.

The book opens with an introduction written by Bessel van der Kolk, moving into a transformative approach to recovery that was developed by experts at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute. The program facilitates somatic healing through gentle breath, mindfulness, and movement practices, and offers insights on the specific needs of trauma survivors practicing yoga at home or in class: adjusting pace, creating safety, accessing empowered choice, and more.

The final chapters offer specific guidance and practical, trauma-informed insights for:

• Survivors to develop a trauma-sensitive practice at home and in the studio
• Clinicians to integrate yoga into clinical care, pair yoga-based interventions with therapeutic goals, and address challenges to yoga-based strategies
• Yoga teachers to build trauma-sensitive yoga classes and learn best practices for responding to triggered responses

“In this landmark book, the authors offer survivors a gentle, step-by-step, mindful yoga that is tailored for their specific needs…it is a great companion and guide to those taking the journey of recovery from trauma to wholeness” (Peter A. Levine).

Valuable for teachers!

The AI voice reading the book out loud was awful, this story needs a human with….a compassionate real voice!!

Life saving!!!

Thank you! this book will be extremely beneficial to me as an instructor working with trauma survivors!

Great resource

I teach yoga to trauma victims and this has been a very helpful book for me to better understand and change my language.

a gentle yet emphatic primer on yoga for trauma

A practical book that emphasizes heavily the importance of gentle and protective behavior towards the psychologically wounded.

I felt my own activation on several points. I trust this book will both reduce harm and increase healing for anyone who needs it.

info is good, narrator is not as good

the narrator was rushed it felt like I was listening to a robot read this this is a very sensitive topic it should be Redwood sensitivity and compassion and not in a robotic sterile voice. it almost felt like the narrator was uncomfortable with the material and was hurrying to get through it I didn't feel as though the narrator connected with the word she was speaking therefore I had a hard time connecting with the material I was hearing. I feel like with a different narrator this could be a much better audiobook

enlightening for a yoga instructor

I found this book to be extremely enlightening. I have a master's degree in counseling psychology and I am an ERYT-200. Not being exposed to this demographic in regards with yoga has made me become hyper-aware of changes that I need to make happen when entering this new population in regards to yoga practice. traditionally as an instructor I am leading people into alignment. as trauma sensitive alignment is not the goal rather being present in the moment and giving control to the practitioner. It has been a great foundational resource that I look forward to continuing developing.

a few things that bothered me was the pace at which the person reading the book demonstrated.. her guidance in the yoga class was non-stop. It felt like there was no space to be. The repetition of the same phrases felt grating on my soul.
a correction that may need to happen.. They kept referring to happy baby as a prone position. prone is face down. Happy baby is in a supine position on your back. I noticed this several times throughout the book.

very Informative

The information is invaluable although the performance and the delivery is very robotic so if you can keep yourself focused on whether saying and not get caught up in the fact that it sounds like one of those robotic voices were YouTube fixes You'll be able to take the information in

not done yet but so far

I really like the narrator. she speaks clearly and doesn't sound like a robot to me. I think the material is interesting and informative. will add to the review when done with the book.

Highly recommended

An extremely valuable tool for any clinician or yoga instructor. Applicable information. Will change your perspective on how to approach yoga students.

CPTSD and becoming a yoga teacher!

With so much trauma in the world this book is life changing! My mind heart, spirit and eyes are open!
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