Grounding skills – Trauma yoga

Name: Grounding skills – Trauma yoga
Uploaded: 2022-08-16T14:03:00.000Z
Duration: 20 min
Description: Help the body fulfill its biological imperative for fight and flight to reduce stress and change patterns.

Josefin Wikström

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About this session

This is a grounding class that also involves tensing and releasing the upper legs and buttocks. When we feel threatened, the body naturally wants to run away. By tensing and releasing these areas of the body, we give energy to our natural needs and practice how we respond to stress and traumatic reactions.

For Grounding classes part 1 and 2, please see Grounding – Trauma Yoga and Grounding short – 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.