Have you ever faced challenges in your life that were so overwhelming that they brought you to the edge of your coping skills?

If so, you are a survivor of trauma - and, indeed, you are not alone. Nine out of ten people have experienced periods of such intense stress that it qualifies as a traumatic experience - i.e., an experience that overwhelms one's capacity to mentally, emotionally, and physically cope with or process the experience.

Intense trauma and stress, sadly, are part of the human condition. And for many of us, they leave lasting imprint in mind and body - affecting the balance of our nervous system, making us more brittle, and undermining our resilience and coping skills.

In recent years, however, the insights from polyvagal theory have cast new light on how can we heal the imprint of trauma in mind and body. And as it happens, many of the techniques in yoga offer a particularly effective path to healing the pain of the past.

Join us for a not-to-be-missed 3-part course with renowned author and yoga therapist Dr. Arielle Schwartz on Yoga for Trauma Recovery - Keys to Healing the Past and Fostering Lasting Change.

Dr. Arielle has worked closely with Dr. Stephen Porges for numerous years. She is a trained somatic psychotherapist and trauma treatment expert with more than twenty years of experience applying the tools of yoga for trauma recovery.

Learn how specific yogic practices can help heal the mind by working on the level of the body. With the right approach, yoga enables us to address physiological imbalances through practices that allow us to reconnect with our body, balance the breath, move stuck energy, and rest into stillness.

Many of the symptoms of traumatic stress are due to an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system. Trauma survivors are often flooded by intrusive sensations or emotions and as a result, can become hypervigilant to their surroundings or they may shut down with fatigue and depression.

The effects of trauma are as much physical as they are psychological. For this reason, body-centered interventions can be particularly useful to rebalance body and mind and heal the imprint from the past.

Within this course, you will learn tools to enhance your personal yoga practice. Through the lens of polyvagal theory, you will learn how the vagus nerve is a bi-directional information highway between mind and body.

And, you will learn to fine-tune your health with breath, movement, and awareness practices that become the building blocks of a life-changing daily practice.