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Beyond Trauma-Informed Yoga:
Cutting-edge Trauma Care Techniques
for Women

with Dr. Ginger Garner

Recorded, Available Now

This course qualifies for 3 non-contact hour CEs with Yoga Alliance.

Women are disproportionately affected by stressful and trauma-inducing events and life circumstances. In the wake of the pandemic, no woman is immune from the impacts of trauma. It’s long overdue to move past simple “trauma-informed” yoga.

Yoga cannot address every aspect of a woman’s need who has suffered through trauma, but it is a vital part of the care that should take place to nurture recovery. This course will equip you with specific evidence-based strategies for trauma-informed care to begin the healing process for others, and/or yourself.

In trauma situations, the balance of the vagus nerve is the first to be affected. Chronic stress and trauma sets up for a poor vagus response, which can send us into fight, flight, freeze, or worse, dissociation, and shut-down.

In this course, Dr. Ginger Garner will share how yoga can help us move past the effects of trauma, particularly by giving us tools to work with the vagus nerve.

Dr. Garner will share her innovative work focused on the close link between the vagus nerve and the three diaphragms, including the vocal diaphragm and voice.

The voice is increasingly recognized as a tell-tale sign of health. It is the new biomarker for wellness which can impact not only trauma recovery but everything from mood regulation to digestive functioning to sexual functioning and core strength.

Join Dr. Ginger Garner as she guides you through innovative and cutting-edge approaches to trauma care for women's health. This 3-hour course will offer holistic yoga-based trauma care approaches useful for everyone impacted by stressful life events.

The course also gives yoga teachers essential tools to teach trauma-informed yoga and trauma care techniques to aid students to restore greater balance in body and mind.

What You Will Learn

How our definition of trauma is evolving and what it means for our approach to working with trauma.
What studying the voice can reveal about trauma in general and dysfunction in the pelvic floor specifically
How vagal tone impacts self-regulatory mechanisms and the implications for interventions that impact women’s health.
How to impact vagal tone in order to offer self-care tools to work with trauma in a psychologically informed manner.
Evidence-based strategies for addressing trauma using yoga as the vehicle for care delivery.
Key yogic breath work, postures, and mindfulness techniques that support care for women who have experienced trauma.

Check Out These Video Excerpts from the Course: