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Return: Yoga for Trauma Survivors pt 2

I was asleep for  17 years.  I walked, spoke, I bathed like other human beings, but there was a part of me heavy and closed and unaware.  I fed myself booze and pills.  I drove cars.  I stood thigh deep in the Atlantic in February until I couldn’t feel my toes.  I bled like other

yoga and healing from trauma

Inside yourself is a place where you live all alone.  That’s where you renew the springs that never dry up.  -Pearl S. Buck Memories The body remembers.  I had a yoga teacher who said this often.  She was referring to working at one’s edge, the place where you balance between not going far enough and

Tiger Brain: depression, anxiety, and getting out of your own head

The workings of the human brain influence our productivity, physical well-being, intuitions and behaviors. Knowing what’s going on up there can help you navigate your everyday, ride out the storms, and come closer to self-determination.