Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lutz, Joann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoga--Therapeutic use.

Yoga.

Psychic trauma--Alternative treatment.

Psychic trauma.

Neurotic Disorders--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Neurotic Disorders--therapy.

Yoga.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Handspring Publishing Limited, 2021.

Summary:

Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone describes an original model of "Nervous System Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga," (NITYA), a synthesis of classical yoga, somatic psychotherapy, and neuroscience research. It is organized around the eight branches of Raja Yoga, and includes scripts for administering NITYA chair yoga postures, breathing practices, and yoga nidra (the yogic sleep). These can be used by helping professionals with all levels of familiarity with yoga. The book is needed for several reasons: for mental health professionals, it offers a comprehensive overview of yoga philosophy and practices, as well as yoga-based options for working with the client's embodied experience, a major element in trauma healing. For yoga professionals and practitioners, it provides insight into the natural integration of yoga with polyvagal theory and other current approaches in the field of somatic psychology. Both professions are currently being enriched by data from the field of neuropsychology that describes brain function, in real time, in various mental and emotional states. This data supports yoga's effectiveness in regulating the autonomic nervous system, a key to trauma recovery.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

About the author

Preface

Forewords

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Setting the stage for the study of nervous system-informed, trauma-sensitive yoga (NITYA)

Chapter 2. Raja Yoga and yogic subtle anatomy as a foundation for NITYA therapeutic yoga

Chapter 3. The NITYA approach to bringing chair hatha yoga postures into the session or class

Chapter 4. Regulating the autonomic nervous system with the breath

Chapter 5. Yoga, trauma, and neuroscience

Chapter 6. Bringing NITYA into the therapy session

Chapter 7. Nervous system-informed, trauma-sensitive yoga nidra

Chapter 8. Embodied meditation for trauma survivors

Afterword: Seeing the light

Appendix 1. The NITYA healing model

Appendix 2. Assessment tool

Appendix 3. NITYA chair yoga script - chair yoga warm-up and postures

Appendix 4. NITYA three-part deep breath script

Appendix 5. Four-part NITYA yoga nidra script

List of abbreviations

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-912085-08-9

OCLC:

1267731833