Ep #80: Trauma Informed Yoga with Anthea Taeuber

Have you ever had to deal with a student suffering from trauma or PTSD in your yoga class? Or do you want to overcome your own trauma safely through your own yoga practices? In this episode Anthea shares her experiences, knowledge, and guidance on teaching yoga in a trauma-informed way. She explains how and why these tips and cues can help students managing with different types of traumas. Plus delivers some incredibly practical teaching advice. She provides usable tips on teaching, and how to make your classes more trauma-informed. Plus she shares how you can apply this to your own practice too. Listen to the full episode to get the complete scoop! Episode Breakdown: (00:00) Introduction (06:14) What is cognitive neuroscience? (09:27) Defining trauma… (13:18) EMDR therapy (15:46) Right and left brain emotions and logic (18:00) Regulating your amygdala (19:04) Trauma triggers in yoga (22:55) Language and allowing space in your class (29:00) Energetic and visual cues can be great alternatives to physical adjustments (33:24) Savasana can be triggering for PTSD and trauma (36:44) Pose awareness, which poses trigger you (41:35) Bilateral stimulation poses (44:40) Metaphors and visualisations (52:33) Acroyoga can be a powerful healing tool for trauma --- More about Anthea: Anthea is a trauma informed yoga, meditation and journaling guide.  In 2021 she started a nonprofit called The Healing Quotient that gives "therapy grants" to individuals recovering from trauma or seeking wellness resources, by providing online access to mental health resources including funding for EMDR therapy with fully licensed professionals. She's also the creator of 3MinMeds, a weekly 3 minute meditation hosted on Smalltalk (a new audio-only platform for creators). All proceeds from 3MinMeds go to fund therapy for minds in need. You can join her community chat called The Healing Quo on telegram for more information! Instagram The Healing Quo --- Related episode links: https://podcast.goingproyoga.com/episode-68-trauma-informed-with-rusty-price/https://podcast.goingproyoga.com/episode-43-benefits-of-practicing-acro-yoga-with-caspian-burrell/ --- About Going Pro Yoga: At Going Pro Yoga, we help yoga teachers become even better by teaching them new skills and giving them the tools they need to make their yoga classes safe, fun, and special for everyone. **Right now you can try Going Pro Yoga FREE for 7-days and sample: All Tools Needed to Master Cueing, Sequencing, and Alignment Video Library of over 75 fully Sequenced Classes, Sequence Chunks, and Flows FIRST EVER Yoga Cueing System with Over 160 poses and Hundreds of Variations Wisdom Talks from over 20,000 Hours of Teaching Experience Anatomy and Injury Prevention as it relates to Yoga. To Learn More, Visit Going Pro Yoga, and ⁠Start your 7-Day Free Trial⁠!