Teaching Yoga for Anxiety and Trauma Sensitive Yoga with Laura Gilmore

Learn to integrate principles of yoga for anxiety & trauma sensitive yoga into your classes & lead courses to alleviate anxiety & trauma with an understanding of relevant yoga methods, supported by neurology & biology. Ideal for running specific courses/workshops & integrating more awareness into every class. Understand how & why anxiety arises & how the science of yoga can have such a powerful role to play in alleviating anxiety. Equip yourself with the skills, knowledge & practices to help support students who have or may have experienced trauma. Or simply explore some new ways to 'hold the space' for your students. Using the body & breath is key for moving from an anxious state. We can't think our way out of anxiety or trauma. Yoga is ideally placed to offer this support. Key to understanding anxiety & trauma is the nervous system, so we will research & explore for ourselves how our practice affects our nervous system state. Yoga gives opportunities to both 'up regulate' or stimulate the nervous system, as well as to calm or 'down-regulate' so that over time as we alternate consciously between these states, the nervous system becomes more adaptable or resilient. Alongside other neurological & psychological changes, supported by affirmation, yoga philosophy, anxiety & trauma can become much more manageable. The research into yoga for PTSD gives us ways to create a safe space for our students, & allows everyone regardless of their experience to relax into the sense of 'being held'. This course covers the theoretical side of trauma as well as the practical implications for class.