Building Safety with Trauma-Informed Yoga

✍ Scribed by Yael Calhoun

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Science: Be Informed and Be Inspired
Are We Stuck?
Neuroplasticity: Another Type of Plastic
The Basics: All Systems Go
The Nature/Nurture Debate: Who’s Winning Now?
How Does Neuroplasticity Happen?
Why Is a Sense of Safety So Important?
Getting Stuck
Getting Unstuck: ‘Pay Attention!’
Where Does a Sense of Safety Come From?
To Coin a Phrase
The Triune Brain: The Bigger Picture
The Polyvagal Theory (PVT)
Window of Tolerance
What Does Trauma Do to That Sense of Safety?
Mixed Signals
Connections Lost
The Triune Brain Revisited
Why Are Breath and Movement the Safety Net?
The Ebb and the Flow: Heart Rate Variability
Movement
Putting It All Together: Getting Unstuck with Yoga
References
Part I Preparing to Teach
Chapter 2 Language
Building Safety
Self-regulation
Pacing
‘Your Voice Is a Thread to Safety’
Grounding
Boundaries
Word Choice
Supporting Empowerment
Who’s in Charge?
Choosing Words
Knowledge Is Power
Maintaining Simplicity
Teach Simply
Literal and Body-based
Repetition and Consistent Phrasing
References
Chapter 3 The Yoga Space
The Room
Building Safety
Arranging Physical Space
Creating Boundaries
Props
Five Senses: ‘Be Informed and Be Inspired’
Sight
Hearing
Smell
Touch
Taste
References
Chapter 4 Classroom Management
Building Safety
Predictability and Consistency
To Welcome
Interruptions
Managing Responses
Anxious or Triggered Responses
Resistant Responses
References
Chapter 5 For Teachers, Clinicians, and Health Care Providers
Personal Qualities: Building a Sense of Safety
Dress for Success
Make Yourself Heard
Be Predictable and Consistent
Be Confident
Personal Challenges
Learning to Stretch
Self-care and Vicarious Trauma: Take Care of You
Your Safety
What Are You Practicing?
‘You Need Yoga’
‘Trust the Yoga’
Trust Yourself
Ways to Incorporate Yoga into All You Do
On Your Mark, Get Set …
Use as Needed
Ways to ‘Practice What You Teach’
Do Try This at Home
References
Part II Teaching Protocols
Chapter 6 The Breath: Considerations
Building Safety
A Key to Self-regulation
Grounding to Building Body Awareness
Potential Breathing Triggers
‘Your Voice Is a Thread to Safety’
Supporting Empowerment
What a Difference a Word Makes
Of Boundaries and Windows and Personal Growth
Knowledge Is Power
Normalize
Maintaining Simplicity
Keeping It Simple
Literal and Body-based
Consistent Phrasing
Mixing It up Without Getting Mixed Up
References
Chapter 7 Suggested Breathwork
At the Ready: Ways to Ground throughout the Practice
Five-breath Format
Opening Comments
Ten Breathwork Ideas
Other Breathwork Ideas
References
Chapter 8 The Practice: Considerations
Building Safety
Self-regulation
Pacing
‘Your Voice Is a Thread to Safety’
Adjustments
When Is Restorative Not Restorative?
Supporting Empowerment
Word Choice – It’s the Little Things
The Building Blocks of Choice
Of Boundaries and Personal Growth
Knowledge Is Power
Normalize and Set Up for Success
Maintaining Simplicity
Keeping It Simple
Consistent Phrasing
Mixing It Up without Getting Mixed Up
References
Chapter 9 Steps to Creating Your Practice
Step One: A Plan Can …
How to Not ‘End Up Someplace Else’
How Long Is Long Enough?
Adapting for Pain and Differing Abilities
Connect the Dots
Your Planning Checklist: A Quick Review
The Last Piece of the Planning Puzzle
Step Two: Sequencing the Yoga Practice
Begin at the Beginning
Grounding – It Never Gets Old
The Middle: Creating Sequences That Flow
To Close: Ways to End Strong
‘Final Stretch’ Script
Activities to Compliment Your Practice
Journaling
Art Projects
References
Chapter 10 Immigrant/Refugee/ESOL Populations
Building Safety
You Are the Message: ‘Your Voice Is a Thread to Safety’
Let Me Count the Ways
Boundaries
Social Support in Action
Supporting Empowerment
Maintaining Simplicity
References
Chapter 11 Trauma-informed Phrases and Practice Sequences/Photos
Practice Sequences: Descriptions and Outlines
Phrases to Empower, to Build Body Awareness, and to Build Breath Awareness
Two-to-Five Minute Breaks
Five Practice Sequences (30–90 Minutes)
Three 30-Minute Practice Scripts
Two 60–90-Minute Practice Scripts
Practice Sequence Photographs
Appendix A: Practice Scripts for Chapter 5
Appendix B: Resources
Appendix C: Supplemental Resourceswww​.greentreeyoga​.org​/buildingsafety
Index