Integrating yoga & psychology

Name: Integrating yoga & psychology
Uploaded: 2022-08-16T14:00:00.000Z
Duration: 10 min
Description: How and why yoga and yogic based techniques can help change mental patterns.

Josefin Wikström

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Heather Mason

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Health

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About this session

Neuroscience plays a vital role in the understanding of trauma. Recent neuroscientific findings regarding core structures impacted by trauma such as the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and insula elucidate the vital role of body-based approaches in psychological therapies. This can prime the brain to develop new insights and self-regulation skills.

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.