It also means if I have gut feelings, I don’t follow them, so I create situations of risk for myself.”
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I no longer know how to deal with emotions in relationships – I withdraw so I don’t have to feel those (painful) emotions. “Trauma really means a disconnection from ourselves – why do we disconnect? Because it is too painful to be ourselves. “Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.” “There is a wisdom in trauma – when we realise that our traumatic responses and imprints are not ourselves, and we can work them through and thus become ourselves.” “The common template for virtually all addictions is in fact, trauma.”
“Working through trauma can reveal the beauty of our existence – that we had lost sight of.” “Our job as human beings, is to learn from our suffering.” “When I see human faces, I see beauty, tremendous suffering, and I see enormous potential for transcendence.” Selected quotes from “The Wisdom of Trauma” – Gabor Maté
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More details on how to watch the movie here I highly recommend any yoga therapist who is interested in working in the field of trauma, to watch this movie. “By cultivating an attitude of friendship toward those who are happy, compassion toward those in distress, joy toward those who are virtuous, and equanimity toward those who are non- virtuous, lucidity arises in the mind.” Maitri karunā mudita upeksānām sukhaduhkha punyāpunya visayānām bhāvanātah cittaprasādanam – I find this approach resonates so beautifully with the compassionate approach Patanjali describes in Yoga Sutra 1:33, and which forms the basis of our work as Yoga Therapists. “The Wisdom of Trauma”, released in June 2021, gives a brief introduction to Gabor Maté’s approach to working with traumatised individuals, which is based on Compassionate Inquiry, a person-centred approach which offers people a chance to be listened to, without judgement, & with acceptance of them as they are. One person who has been working in the field of trauma extensively for many years, is Gabor Maté, who as a retired medical doctor, began his work in the field of trauma with a community of severely traumatised individuals who were addicted to substance abuse of various illegal drugs. In recent times, Bessel van der Kolk “The Wisdom of the Body”, along with others, have greatly supported the field of yoga through modern scientific validation of some of the psychological, neurological and & physiological effects that yoga practice can produce, adding to the classical wisdom yogis have been exploring for centuries. Along the way, I studied Gestalt Psychotherapy, and began to be interested in how individuals can heal from trauma, which helped me enormously when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2017.
In this tradition, I have had the immense good fortune to have studied with experienced teachers Karen Schaefer, Mark Breadner, Michael de Manincor, and Saraswathi Vasudevan, who have all treated me with open hearted compassion and respect.
Thankfully, some years later, my healing journey led me to doing a yoga teacher training, and subsequently to become a certified Yoga Therapist in the much more person – centred Krishnamacharya lineage. In part, this was due to the environmental context where I chose to attend classes at the time – which unconsciously appealed to me as there were aspects which resonated with my earlier traumatic experience.
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Whilst I discovered yoga in my late teens, many of my early yoga experiences unintentionally further increased my emotional instability, rather than developing my capacity for self-regulation and resilience. This made social situations quite complex to navigate, particularly in the emotional terrain of relationships. Written by Yoga Institute faculty member, Mischa TelfordĪlthough I grew up in a loving family, adverse early childhood experiences left me with complex PTSD and a highly dysregulated nervous system, which was over-reactive to sensory stimulation of any kind.
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