Building tolerance – Trauma yoga

Josefin Wikström

and

Heather Mason

Session info

Activities

Result type

Health

About this session

As we learn to tolerate long holds in postures, we gain the capacity to be with a host of feelings, including challenging ones, with greater ease. In this practice, you will be guided to stay with the feelings as we stay in postures; thus building your own resilience.

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.