Grounding – Trauma Yoga

Name: Grounding – Trauma Yoga
Uploaded: 2022-08-16T14:01:00.000Z
Duration: 30 min
Description: Ground yourself and slow down the mind with basic movements, on the mat or on a chair.

Josefin Wikström

and

Heather Mason

Session info

30min

Activities

Trauma-informed yoga

Props

Chair

Needs

Result type

Health

About this session

This practice is geared towards the development of grounding. Grounding means both sensing the body's contact with the ground and actively bringing the mind to the body as a mode to reduce stress, rumination, and fear.

For Grounding class part 2 and 3, please see Grounding short – Trauma Yoga and Grounding skills – Trauma Yoga.

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.