FREE Excellent Online Yoga for Trauma

[Armee]

This is the trauma sensitive yoga program that started as a companion to Bessel van der Kolk's trauma center. These folks are really good at providing space for free choice and gentle body movement. This is different from most yoga programs. It is very gentle and easy. You are offered full choice with  suggestions to consider, all online, very very trauma-informed, and cameras OFF.

Normally there is a registration process and small nominal fee for these but next week several sessions will be offered for free and without registration. I HIGHLY recommend these.

Times are Eastern United States time zone.

https://www.healwithcfte.org/e/BAh7BjoWZW1haWxfZGVsaXZlcnlfaWRsKwjMC9wPCQA%3D--ef29c79f39612544c7ee2f4eaff78e5a78931d9a?skip_click_tracking=true

[Blueberry]

Wow! Thanks for this Armee 

[Kizzie]

Wow indeed! Tks for this Armee 

[Chart]

Thanks Armee!!!

[Teddy bear]

Very interesting! Will try to join

[Chart]

Just saw the post, clicked the link, joined in... Wow, how's that for perfect timing. Had a very good cry fifteen minutes in, lots of release. Really nice. Thank you again, Armee!

[Teddy bear]

Thank you 🙏
What a really great initiative! It's a shame it's only for a week — feels a bit too short.

I tried it today with my dog (who, by the way, is way too fond of claiming my yoga mat as her bed 😊).

I really appreciated the "no pressure" vibe and the "do it in your own pace" feeling.

It was the perfect thing to do after shoveling snow outside!

[Blueberry]

This was the first day I managed, and I did both sessions. I loved the emphasis placed on Choice, like 3 different ways to do one exercise and you choose what feels best for your body. I have never been in any yoga 'place' where that was the case. In fact, always more like there is only one way OR later there's one normal way which can be altered like so or like so when your body can't manage physically.

I discovered how tense my body is, off the scale tense. And I don't want to feel it physically or feel into much either. Interestingly enough, I was able to relax a bit in both sessions, in the second session more my mind than my body. Still, I could feel this tiny sliver of relaxation.

[Armee]

Im really glad people could join and found it to be useful. Like you Blueberry it was like no other yoga I've been too and it really felt trauma informed to me. No pressure and choice like you said. And other even slow or beginner yoga are too fasy to manage with the dissociative disconnect. Just figuring out which arm im supposed to move let alone all the other stuff going on in yoga is too much.

Teddy Bear,

They have these classes all the time but you have to register and pay a nominal fee...I can't remember how much...maybe $2USD or $10USD per session on a donation basis.

It can be hard to find the info though. Here's the link to sign up.

https://www.healwithcfte.org/classes