626. Trauma and Yoga - with David Emerson

The Embodiment Coaching Podcast

Trauma sensitive yoga teacher David joins me to discuss his story, invitational language, how yoga can be bad for trauma, Judith Herman, trauma IN the body, intereoception, self regulation vs weight lifting and martial arts, politics, power, who he likes working with. A really intelligent, sensitive conversation.

Find more about David here: https://www.healwithcfte.org/

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David Emerson, YACEP, TCTSY-F, Co-Director, the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI In 2002, Dave co-founded Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), the original model of trauma sensitive yoga, and in 2018 he co-founded the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE) at the Justice Resource Institute in Massachusetts, where he resides as co-director. CFTE is home to TCTSY as well as Trauma Informed Weight Lifting (TIWL) and ReScripted, a theater-based intervention for youth who have experienced psychological trauma. Dave is the author or co- author of numerous papers on yoga and trauma, the co-author of Overcoming Trauma through Yoga, and the author of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy .

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