Description
Science indicates that yoga is an integrative clinical tool that can help heal depression and anxiety. Sensible and compassionate, this practice empowers clients, enhances the professional relationships and helps heals client and clinician alike.
Mary NurrieStearns – Simple Yoga Techniques as Clinical Interventions for Anxiety and Trauma
Join Mary NurrieStearns, clinical social worker, yoga expert and author, for this highly informational and experiential video. You will learn the skills to integrate these powerful yoga techniques with your clinical practice. Help improve your client outcomes – and feel renewed as a clinician as well!
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Manual (81.7 KB) 16 Pages Available after Purchase
Outline
Yoga as an Evidenced-Based Clinical Intervention: A holistic, mind/body approach
The physiology of anxiety and trauma and the healing process
Yoga and the anxious body
Yoga and the traumatized mind
Yoga and trauma in the body
Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelm with Breathing Interventions
Quickly reduced heighted anxiety
“Come to your rescue†breathing intervention
Interventions to facilitate diaphragmatic breathing
Calm the nervous system with “gentle exhalation lengtheningâ€
Reduce Panic and Dissociation with a Simple Body Scan
Create internal safety
Shift attention from distressing thoughts
Teach and demonstrate body scan
Complex Trauma and Mantra
Reverse feelings of unworthiness
Self love and compassion mantra
Client developed mantra
Embedding mantra into the body with massage
Mentally imbed and reinforce mantra
Soothing with Comfort Poses
Reverse the flight/fight/freeze response of trauma
Practice variations of comforting body as self compassion
Simple Yoga Practice for Anxiety
Cultivate awareness
Safety
Practice numerous poses
