More than 5 years ago, Marybeth Hamilton and I created a 12-week curriculum based on the principles of trauma sensitive yoga and mindfulness with the aim of helping people strengthen their capacity for resilience.  Since then, we have taught EMBER to hundreds of students, trained over 100 teachers in weekend trauma sensitive workshops* and over 50 additional teachers in the EMBER 100hr advanced certificate course.

Here are three ways, among many, that we’ve seen Yoga help to build resilience in our students:

1.      Yoga teaches students how to shift their perspective.

2.      Attention to breath, sensation and poses creates a framework for noticing impermanence – recognizing that change is a part of life.

3.      Yoga poses and breathwork offers portable tools for self-regulation – GROUNDING being chief among them.

Here are 4 Yoga Poses to experience GROUNDING in your own body:

*Our next weekend workshop is in November, 2019. (link https://www.yogaonhigh.com/welcome/new-events/ember-training-weekend )