that fear of losing control of the competitive body or the fear of losing control over your reputation as an achiever, or as an athlete that at some point we have to learn to let go of that. Because we are more than athletes, we are we are humans, and that means being multifaceted and having multiple identities, and it means closing the chapter, and starting a new one which is a different mixture of the different parts of your personality.

Building resilience, increasing our ability to handle difficult things, should be a priority in preventative healthcare. There are simple ways that we can lessen the burden that physical, chemical & emotional stress places on the body and make significant improvements to our overall health beyond simply feeling less stressed.  

“There is no cure for PTSD”. I wonder when it comes to something as complex as post traumatic stress if it’s a “cure” that we really need. Perhaps what we really need is an inoculation. Something that could boost our own natural defenses against the toxic levels of stress in our society today.

Trauma Release Yoga combines the mindful movement of a traditional yoga flow with freedom of choice, options and action, empowered nervous system communication with the tremor mechanism,  and guided meditation. It offers a way to integrate the best of both worlds to support students in their path to self recovery from all forms of stress injury. 

The word trauma...it holds a lot of stigma. When you hear it you might think major injury, assault, catastrophic event, abuse, suffering but underlying all of these is a sense of victim-hood. I used to think (and maybe you did too)that only soldiers experienced trauma. It never occurred to me that as a human being I’m exposed to trauma all the time.