Brain & Heart, Psoas and Spirit
We hope you can attend one of our Trauma Sensitive Trainings, however, we encourage you to get trauma informed wherever you can. By His stripes we are healed. The power of Christ and specific forms can bring about many miracles and healing. We are anointed to heal the broken hearted and set captives free (Isaiah 61). This outline will not teach you how to teach Trauma Sensitive Yoga, it is simply a Trauma Sensitive YogaFaith (TSYF) Class Outline. If you are already teaching TSY or TSYF, plan to become certified, or just looking for a new class, this outline will be a great addition to your practice and/or class library.
There are many avenues one can go with becoming trauma informed. 100% of your students have trauma in some capacity, so it’s critical in becoming trauma informed and teaching from a trauma-sensitive perspective. You can see our Trauma Trainings HERE.
We hope this classes bless you and assists in your/your student’s healing.
[form for full class]
Portion of class:
Opening:
Reclining Angle with prop under heart to open. Perhaps props under the knees as the body sinks heavily down to the earth. Noticing the breath and any connections (Invitation to use blanket here).
When ready, place one hand on the belly and one hand on the heart. Inhale through the nose, exhale H-A haaaaa. 3X times or more.
Invite a Lion’s Breath here, making a loud, boisterous exhale.
Our breath connects us. We are all connected. Prov. 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. (NAS) Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. (NLT)
What dwells IN your heart?
Our heart is where we hold our brokenness. Our scars and wounds reside here. This is where anger, bitterness and resentment go to play, where offense builds its crafty divides, or fences. Time can change a healthy, vibrant, beating heart, into a dark, isolated and jaded place if we allow it.
John 10:10: The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows] (AMP)
The enemy is after our hearts and souls. He causes a war zone over the playgrounds of our lives. Guard your heart.
Bring feet mat-width apart and allow the knees to gently fall inward (active rest).
2 Cor. 5:17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come!
Gently flow from Knees to Chest (exhales) to Bridge (inhales)
Engaging the entire backside on the Bridge, and energetically pressing knees into the Chest on the exhales.
[Non verbal] Trauma divides our brain, here we want to reconnect. Acknowledge, release and restore.
Gently come to Seated, Flow through (seated) Cat-Cow and Side Bends for the side bodies. Cat – Cow can also be done from a seated form or in a chair.
Take Child’s form (consider using the blanket as a prayer shawl) with palms up to read…
Child’s Form
[Form for full class]