A Yoga Practice for Healing Emotional Trauma – Mary NurrieStearns

A Yoga Practice for Healing Emotional Trauma – Mary NurrieStearns

This yoga and meditation practice is designed to help in the alleviation of mental and physical discomfort in the aftermath of emotional trauma. This one-hour practice can easily be divided into two shorter practices – the first being more physical poses, adapted to a clinical setting, and the second section is a more meditative practice.  This short program begins with an introduction that provides the clinical perspectives and benefits derived from yoga and meditation practices. The class section that follows includes poses, affirmations and breathing practices which many clients find ease their distressed emotional state that result from traumatic events.

1. Describe the physiology of trauma and its impact on the body.
2. Demonstrate at least 2 poses that can be incorporated into a clinical setting that may calm the trauma client.
3. Demonstrate the meditation steps that you can use with your clients during session to regulate their emotional state.

Section 1: “I Am Safe”

• Strengthen the body; when our bodies are strong, we feel safe

Section 2: “I Am Alive”

• Experience a sense of vitality and aliveness in the body

Section 3: “I Choose”

• Cultivate willpower, determination and resolve

Section 4: “I Feel”

• Open your heart, feel richly, receive and express love

Section 5: “I Express”

• Express your heart

Section 6: “I Know”

• Access inner guidance and inner knowing

Section 7: “I Am”

• Feel connection with the sacred

What is Metaphysics ?

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality. The word “metaphysics” comes from two Greek words that, together, literally mean “after or behind or among [the study of] the natural”. It has been suggested that the term might have been coined by a first century CE editor who assembled various small selections of Aristotle’s works into the treatise we now know by the name Metaphysics (μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, meta ta physika, lit. ‘after the Physics ’, another of Aristotle’s works).

Metaphysics studies questions related to what it is for something to exist and what types of existence there are. Metaphysics seeks to answer, in an abstract and fully general manner, the questions:

1. What is there?
2. What is it like?

Topics of metaphysical investigation include existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility. Metaphysics is considered one of the four main branches of philosophy, along with epistemology, logic, and ethics.

A Yoga Practice for Healing Emotional Trauma – Mary NurrieStearns