Techniques when overwhelmed

Name: Techniques when overwhelmed
Uploaded: 2022-08-16T14:10:00.000Z
Duration: 15 min
Description: How to ground yourself when you feel panicked or frozen.

Josefin Wikström

and

Heather Mason

Session info

Activities

Health

Result type

Needs

About this session

Build yourself a toolbox with techniques that you can use when overwhelmed by fear, causing a hyperarousal or a freeze state. Different methods can be employed depending on levels of stress and unique needs.

If you are a clinician, these techniques can be used if a client is struggling with psychological flooding.

Learn more and take part of all lectures and classes with Heather in the Trauma informed yoga program.

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.