When the lovely Eilidh, a yoga teacher from Scotland, joined Becoming a Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher this Summer, I knew straight off that she was going to create ripples of deep and peaceful healing in her community.
Despite being a little unsure at the outset where she wanted to take her teaching, with my support Eilidh narrowed her focus and got clear on wanting to support women to return to health and connection with themselves following trauma of any kind.
Introducing the Yamas and Niyamas is Eilidh's signature trauma informed yoga program where each week's focus on a yama or niyama offers insight that can give us somewhere to start on our journey of self reflection and building a relationship with ourselves following the rupture caused by trauma.
Placing the philosophy of yoga at the centre of her weekly sessions creates focus and grounding for those who have been traumatised.
The yamas and niyamas can form the foundation of our practice and provide so much inner strength when we're rebuilding anew. They can help us build positive and supportive environments in which we can begin to thrive.
They can help us maintain self discipline and humility within challenging situations. They offer purpose, structure and understanding to our yoga practice and they can be explored at whatever level we are starting at - and revisited throughout our yoga
journey.
In her own words, "I offer an opportunity for us to reconnect to ourselves, to feel safe within our bodies so that we may open the door to healing and recovery."
Eilidh was also inspired by the work of an addiction-focussed yoga project whose details I shared in our training and decided to start writing a second program tailored towards addiction-specific practices and participants.
She's already been approached by a drug and alcohol addiction support group to offer it in a wellbeing centre which is fantastic.
We wish her all the luck as she steps forward on her path of trauma informed yoga teaching!
If you'd like to take your own inspirational journey in becoming trauma informed and applying your knowledge so you can teach, change lives and make impact in a community whose causes you care for...
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