Building Safety with Trauma-Informed Yoga is an accessible, science-based guide for clinicians, yoga teachers, teachers in training, and practitioners. The book provides clear ideas on how to support diverse groups in trauma recovery and in building resiliency skills. The easy-to-follow format is organized around the three key principles of building safety, supporting empowerment, and maintaining simplicity. Readers will find free downloadable support materials on the author's website, including handouts, flyers, scripts, and audio and video recordings.
Building Safety with Trauma-Informed Yoga is an accessible, science-based guide for clinicians, yoga teachers, teachers in training, and practitioners. Readers will find free downloadable support materials on the author's website, including handouts, flyers, scripts, and audio and video recordings.
Introduction
1. Science: Be Informed and Be Inspired Part One: Preparing
to Teach
2. Language
3. The Yoga Space
4. Classroom Management
5. For
Teachers, Clinicians, and Health Care Providers Part Two: Teaching Protocols
6. The Breath: Considerations
7. Suggested Breathwork
8. The Practice:
Considerations
9. Steps to Creating Your Practice
10. Immigrant/Refugee/ESOL
Populations
11. Trauma-informed Phrases and Practice Sequences/Photos
Appendix A: Practice Scripts for
Chapter 5 Appendix B: Supplemental Resources
Yael Calhoun, MS, MA, E-RTY, is the author or series editor of more than 20 books and manuals, including Trauma-informed Yoga for Pain Management: A Practical Manual for Simple Stretching, Gentle Strengthening, and Mindful Breathing. Yael is the executive director of GreenTREE Yoga®, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the benefits of yoga to underserved populations and to those who work with them (www.greentreeyoga.org).
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