Calm Your Mind and Restore Your Energy

How do the tools of yoga help us to move beyond trauma? Joanne Spence, certified yoga therapist and author of Trauma-Informed Yoga, discusses using the ancient wisdom of yoga along with modern neuroscience to reduce stress and calm the nervous system.

Joanne Spence is a certified yoga therapist and has Social Work and a Master of Arts degrees. She is the founder and executive director of Yoga in Schools. Joanne trains and teaches yoga specializing in working with adults and children who are experiencing chronic pain, trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia. Joanne is the author of the book Trauma Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists.

SHOW NOTES:
Joanne’s website is JoanneSpence.com. Her book we discussed in this episode is Trauma Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for therapists

THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENT:
I really appreciated this program. The discussion centering on how trauma affects all of us and focusing on how to use yoga to bring the internal and external safety that we seek is timely post pandemic. Although the book was written for therapists, it speaks to all of us as we work with ourselves and those around us experiencing stress. Having Joanne demonstrate a few of the 48 tools she shares in the book was extremely helpful to experience. She simplified breath and movements like sitting cat-cow, making them easy to use in the moment.