Heart Opening Yoga Practice

Try this Heart Opening Yoga Practice, led by Halli Faulkner from Porchlight Wellness.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Trauma sensitive yoga was developed in 2002 by David Emerson at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the decades since its inception, trauma sensitive yoga is being practiced in over thirty countries worldwide, and is continuing to grow. 

Trauma sensitive yoga takes the approach that the entire person– mind, body and spirit– must be engaged when healing trauma. Trauma impacts more than just the mind. In the words of world-renowned trauma researcher and educator Bessel van der Kolk, “trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body.” This imprint leads survivors of trauma to feel chronically unsafe in their own bodies. Trauma sensitive yoga helps survivors process the physical effects of trauma on their bodies, as well as their minds and souls, to help them regain a sense of safety in their own bodies.