YOGA THERAPY
HEALING-FOCUSED
for betrayed partners
MY APPROACH
I am a yoga therapist who specializes in yoga for partners who have experienced betrayal trauma in intimate relationships. I offer evidenced-based practices that address the complex physical, energetic, and emotional needs of partners as they navigate the healing process, from discovery to recovery. Offered in a safe and supportive environment, these interventions seek to harmonize and rebalance emotional regulation and ease symptoms of anxiety, depression, ruminating thoughts, sleep and appetite disturbances, and somatic difficulties like muscular tension, headaches, and tremors.
MOVEMENT
In therapeutic yoga we meet the energy with the practice. Some days this might mean a more dynamic and active sequence of poses to burn off anxious energy and release emotions. Other days we might be so exhausted and spent that we need stillness and restoration. Yogis are encouraged to meet themselves where they are in the practice and empowered to make the choices right for their energy, using props and modifying poses to find the right balance.
BREATH AWARENESS
When we can breathe freely and efficiently, we trigger the relaxation response in the nervous system, which promotes healing. Trauma may cause breathing issues and discomfort. Common conditions include constriction in the muscles around the chest and throat and shortness of breath, including a shallow or superficial inhale and/or exhale. Yoga offers a variety of breathing practices to release breathing inhibitions, as well as relieve mental tension and ruminating thoughts.
MINDFULNESS
A pathway to peace occurs when we refocus our mind and senses away from our past challenges and future worries and into present moment awareness. We do this gently by slowing down and turning our attention inward. We may practice gratitude, recite affirmations, tap pressure points in the body, gaze at a candle, engage in progressive muscle relaxation, or experience a loving kindness or yoga nidra meditation. These practices decrease arousal and promote self regulation.