TRAUMA-RELEASING YOGA
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an adjunct to other modalities of healing.
Trauma-releasing yoga (TRY) is a simple practice designed to relieve and resolve both chronic and traumatic stress through the integration of three evidence-based techniques:
- Increasing somatic awareness;
- Manipulating connective tissue that stores somatic memory; &
- Fatiguing the psoas, our fight-or-flight muscle, to induce the body’s natural shaking response.
Some benefits include: reduction in physical pain and improvement in health; increased energy and sense of calm; greater resilience; less reliance on unhelpful coping mechanisms; reduced stress and trauma-related symptoms, including anxiety and depression; and better sleep and rest.
THE DETAILS
TRY classes are open (anyone can attend) and take place in-person only at Yoga Sanctuary, a non-profit yoga studio, in South Minneapolis.
TRY – I
- 1st & 3rd Saturdays of every month at 12p-1p
- wall-based, the entire practice is done laying down
- maximum class size 7 people
- $25 per class, payment occurs at booking
- Pre-registration required
TRY – II
Prerequisite: must be familiar with both the concepts and tremor response in your body that are in TRY – I (recommended minimum of 3 classes)
- 2nd & 4th Saturdays of every month at 12p-1p
- movement-based practice
- maximum class size 9 people
- $25 per class, payment occurs at booking
- Pre-registration required
The EXPERIENCE
TRY focuses on body awareness in the present moment, enabling the recognition of choice relating to one’s body, and developing the ability to take effective action based on that knowledge. The accessible practice includes the fatiguing, lengthening, and relaxation of the psoas muscle which triggers a somatic release.
The shaking response is the nervous system’s way of discharging trauma, long-held tension, and unconscious muscle contractions. This instinctual shaking, evident in both animals and humans, restores the body to it’s natural state of balance.
Often experienced only somatically (in the body, not emotionally or cognitively), the release consists of movement such as swaying, shaking, twitching, and/or vibration that begins in the legs and may work up the spine.
Healing doesn’t happen in isolation, but in community.