Dear Survivor and Thriver in life,
Today’s thinking will tell you that you are responsible for what is happening in your life. That you “can manifest your dreams” and make your life as you want it. That thinking makes it so. That what you think you become. That every action produces a reaction. That if you would just change your thinking you can change your life. That who, what and where you are in life is because of how and what you are thinking and doing. Let’s look at this for a moment. What we do know:
Trauma changes this. And it is not your fault. You are not broken, you don’t need fixing and you did nothing wrong.
A situation, encounter or experience that overwhelmed your nervous system and left you unable to fully process and digest what happened, no matter the intensity, lives unresolved in your body and mind. Your heart is impacted. You may have internalized what happened and even feel responsible which creates shame, guilt, self-blame, self-loathing and self-sabotaging behaviors…that you may not even realize. You cannot change what you do not understand. Change initiates from Awareness. To feel safe, relaxed, creative, curious and contained requires reconnecting with your body sensations without overwhelm. Survival mechanisms are stored in our body and disrupt these healthy and balanced feelings and processes and need to be replaced with resources that provide resiliency.
Your self-protective patterns, behaviors and reactions have been all you knew to stay safe. Your body/mind/heart may not realize that what happened is over now and is still working to keep you safe. It was not your fault, you did not create what happened and now you have a chance to change your internal relationship to it. You won’t forget but you can reorient, recharge, recreate a healthy response and realize a path to internal freedom. From this balanced place of awareness, yes, then you may find that you can re-empower your life.
Trauma Informed Yoga gives you these ways and means to do just that, gently, lovingly and gradually, without revisiting the trauma. You need resources and this 6 week course is a beginning, it is a place to enter into the wound, without ripping the scab off. It is a totally somatic experience, where feeling into the body and mind will begin to open the heart and put the control into your hands, without triggering, without harsh or abrupt measures.
Sign up now for this 6 week course::Resources for Resiliency
Saturdays, 9:30 am – 11L30 am, PST
Live on Zoom
14 maximum students
March 6th- April 10th
$135, sliding scale still available
Email me ASAP with any questions denise@divinelightyoga.com
I am deeply humbled and grateful to offer this course again, and look forward to your brave and tender hearts being with me.
with love and gratitude, Denise