Mindful connection – Trauma yoga

Name: Mindful connection – Trauma yoga
Uploaded: 2022-08-16T14:05:00.000Z
Duration: 30 min
Description: Cultivate awareness of your body and yourself through breath and movement.

Josefin Wikström

and

Heather Mason

Session info

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Practice

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Health

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Chair

Yoga mat

About this session

In this class, we will use ocean breathing together with soft movements, stretch, and balance poses. As you move through the sequence, you will be guided to sense how each posture feels, giving you a greater sense of your body and building bodily awareness.

Learn more and take part of all lectures and classes with Heather in the Trauma-informed yoga program. To get some more knowledge and understanding about ocean breathing, take part of the video Longer exhale & ocean breathing.

About the instructor

Josefin Wikström

Josefin Wikström has been bringing yoga and dance into the Swedish prisons since 2008. Josefin is responsible for developing the Prison Yoga Programs for Yogobe, she has been working as a full-time teacher focusing on yoga for trauma-exposed populations since 2003.

Heather Mason

Heather Mason is the founder of The Minded Institute (in 2009), a leading yoga therapy training organization known for its focus on mental health and empowering yoga and health professionals to integrate yoga therapy into healthcare.