The role of yoga in trauma recovery
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Transcription ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ on ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ-๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต:โฃ
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โSee our culture is not a culture that is very focused on self-regulation; but there are other cultures, like the Chinese or Indian, where you can really learn to control your own physiology. There are age-old Chinese and Indian methods where you can learn that by controlling your breath and controlling your movement, you can manage your own physiological arousal. โฃ
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The only one of these that I have done research on and studied is yoga, I havenโt really studied TaiChi or QiGong, but I wouldnโt be surprised if they didnโt do the same thing: You can actually learn to manage the housekeeping of your body, which gets so disturbed by trauma, by engaging in a regular yoga practice and really learning how to move and breathe in a way that makes you feel calm and safe. โฃ
The mainstream culture in the west is very much: โif you feel bad take a drugโ. So we send these very contradictory messages to our kids, we say โdonโt take drugs, but take these drugs for your ADHDโ - but what we donโt really teach kids or adults in our culture is that you can actually regulate your own physiology. Every school should teach kids how to regulate their own physiology. It should be a basic skill, that all of us as humans should learn.โฃโ
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๐๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ?โฃ
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โYou start every day doing yoga or qigong, you start by sitting still, focusing on your body, activating the interoceptive part of your brain that impacts self-regulation. You pay attention to how you move and how you breathe, you notice how yourโฃ breathing patterns change your thinking patterns and moods, and you really become familiar with your own internal experience.โ
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