How does Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Work? | The Science of Yoga | Yoga Psychology |

Trauma sensitive yoga is a successful adjunctive treatment for complex trauma/PTSD. Here I describe the neuroscience behind how it works.


Here I describe some of the neuroscience and psychology behind the effectiveness of this body-focused therapy.


LINKS & REFERENCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Yoga- The Mind Body Connection    • The Psychology and Neuroscience of Yo...  

van der Kolk, B., (2015) The Body Keeps the Score. Mind, Brain and Body in Transformation of Trauma. Great Britain. Penguin Books.

Emerson, D., (2015) Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment. New York. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

van der Kolk, B.A., et al. (2014) Yoga as an adjunctive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25004...

Nummenmaa, L., et al. (2014) Bodily maps of emotions. https://www.pnas.org/content/111/2/646

Uddin, L.Q., et al. (2017) Structure and function of the human insula. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Jeong, H., et al. (2019) Diverging roles of the anterior insula in trauma-exposed individuals vulnerable or resilient to posttraumatic stress disorder. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...


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