Yoga Therapy for Fear by Beth Spindler

Author:Beth Spindler
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780857013316
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2018-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Should All Yoga Be Trauma Sensitive?

Below is an overview of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga information that first appeared on Yoga International. I’ll detail some cross-patterning techniques at the end of this chapter.

• Each year, about 8 million adults around the world experience PTSD. Approximately 7–8 percent of the global population will develop PTSD at some point in their lives—about 10 percent of women, and 4 percent of men.

• One in eight soldiers returning from active combat suffers from PTSD, while less than half of them seek help.

• One in five women and one in 71 men have been raped at some point in their lives. One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually traumatized before the age of 18. (Sexual trauma is defined as any lingering physical, emotional, or psychological symptoms resulting from physical assault of a sexual nature or battery of a sexual nature.)

• In addition, 2.9 million cases of child abuse are reported each year in the USA alone.

After researching and writing about this information, I had to look hard again at the statistics. The word “sobering” simply does not describe adequately their effect on me. So much trauma.

PTSD varies in spectrum and quality, with a wide array of symptoms, which range from emotional distance and social avoidance, to violent or self-destructive outbursts, loss of memory, and flashbacks.

The classes of yoga teachers are not generally populated with tranquil, meditative cave dwellers or those who have danced through life unscathed. We don’t know the backstories of our students, and they may never tell us. It is our job to develop an appropriate degree of awareness and sensitivity to emotional triggers in the yoga classroom.

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