Trauma sensitive yoga practice: Creating a safe space in a yoga studio for survivors of sexual assault.
Today's show looks at a different way working with survivors of sexual assault. In this episode, you’ll hear how Clare uses trauma-sensitive yoga to support survivors of sexual assault. Clare Pritchard has been practising yoga since 1995. She is a Certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Facilitator, a Certifed Iyengar Yoga teacher, and has completed a number of certificates in yoga programs for children.
In this episode, we talk about hows yoga help survivors of trauma and how it can be integrated with a range of other traditional therapies and medication.
We discussed burn out and self-care when working in an industry and with individuals that have experienced trauma.
Clare has been involved in working at Centres Against Sexual Assault since 2000. She began this association working as a Counsellor/Advocate at CASA House but her role in the field has now transformed into a role which provides support and healing to victim/survivors of trauma through yoga. Clare has delivered the yoga component of the Body Based Therapy Program at WestCASA (Centre Against Sexual Assault) since 2011, and at CASA House since 2017. She has also delivered programs in the Northern and SouthEastern CASA’s, and Counterpoint Young Women’s Refuge. In a voluntary capacity, Clare has provided yoga classes within the Maribyrnong Detention Centre, the Asylum Centre Resource Centre and the YWCA Girl Storey program for marginalised young women
Clare talks about how trauma-sensitive yoga is different from other styles of yoga. When she started running it she brought into yoga her knowledge of impacts of trauma to make it safe and appropriate
Some key points of trauma-sensitive yoga
It may not be suitable for
As a clinician its good to look at the credentials of the person running the yoga and if they have knowledge and experience in working with trauma.
Listen out for them mentioning
Some tools and resources recommended by Clare
You can find Clare at
www.yarrarangesyoga.com.au
David Emerson, E-RYT, founder and director of yoga services at the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute in Brooklin, is one of the major contributors to this field.
Body keeps score by Bessel van der Kolk
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others. Author Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
tps://health.usnews.com/wellness/mind/articles/2017-03-29/how-yoga-helps-survivors-of-trauma
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/health/article/Trauma-centered-yoga-helps-patients-with-PTSD-6717475.php?t=7f53ff22de&cmpid=email-premium
https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/111714p8.shtml
https://www.traumasensitiveyoga.com/uploads/3/1/6/6/31663259/fostermagimg20181005_11042983.pdf
http://www.traumacenter.org/products/pdf_files/Peaceful_Embodiment_Through_Yoga_R0002.pdf
http://www.traumacenter.org/products/pdf_files/Yoga_Complementary%20Treatment_PTSD_West_W0002.pdf
https://www.traumasensitiveyoga.com/ : info about TCTSY and the Center for Trauma & Embodiment (formerly Trauma Center)
https://www.traumasensitiveyoga.com/resources.html : link to articles, publications and research (there are TCTSY-specific ones)
https://www.aap.org/en-us/documents/ttb_aces_consequences.pdf : general info about the impact of childhood trauma. might not be relevant!
www.yarrarangesyoga.com.au
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