Trauma Sensitive Yoga

About this Practice

Trauma Centre Trauma-Sensitive Yoga works in conjunction with conventional clinical therapies to support healing by gently assisting survivors to reconnect with their bodies in a safe supportive environment. This unique yoga therapy supports the body to feel safe, strong and comfortable and teaches people how to recognise and modulate arousal that is felt in the body. TC-TSY brings the body into treatment complementing conventional talk therapies and can support healing. In this course we do not focus on the cause of the trauma, we are working with the effects of the trauma.

Whilst we practice in a group format, the practice is individual, you inhabit your body, your space, exploring your choices.

“Trauma causes the body to be frozen in a state of fear, terror and hypervigilance...one’s body gives the signal that it’s not safe, and your body keeps fighting an existing memory.”

— Bessel van der Kolk

Martine is a current and accredited Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga facilitator·

Trauma Centre Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an empirically validated, adjunctive clinical treatment for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD. Developed at the Trauma Centre in Brookline, Massachusetts, TCTSY has foundations in Trauma Theory, Attachment Theory, and Neuroscience as well as deep roots in Yoga.

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Key Components

• Un-learning the bodies conditioned response to trauma

• Soothing the bodies alarm system

• Relearning a sense of safety in your body

• Learning ways to calm down and self regulate

• Presenting opportunities for present moment experiences

• Increasing spatial awareness and body attunement

• Practicing making choices

• Reduce activation of the sympathetic nervous system, muscle tension and blood pressure.

• Improves mental health and wellness by regulating sleep disorders, mood and balancing energy.

• Supports the management of Anxiety and Stress.

TCTSY Timeline

• 2002 Initial program began

• 2009 Received first grant given by National Institute of Health to study yoga for trauma

• 2014 published results in peer-reviewed, psychiatric journal

• 2017 Listed by SAMHSA as an evidence-based practice

Key Research Findings

• 10-weeks of TCTSY reduced PTSD symptoms 33% in women, 18-59 years old, with childhood physical and sexual abuse.

• Two months post treatment, 52% of the women no longer qualified for PTSD diagnosis.

• 20-weeks of TCTSY reduced PTSD symptoms 45% in women, 18-59 years old, with childhood physical and sexual abuse.

• 20-weeks of TCTSY significantly reduced dissociative symptomatology.

For more information, please visit www.traumasensitiveyoga.com

Pre Recorded Course Package

For the single price of $240.00 AUD you can gain access to the pre recorded 6 hour 6 session Trauma Sensitive Yoga course. This grants you unlimited access to the recording, allows you work at your own pace and at a time that suits you. Please click on the button below to create an account.

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Livestream 4 week TCTSY Course

Join Martine in the next Trauma Sensitive Yoga Livestream Course starting on Saturday 11th May 2024 at 11am (AWST). The course will be held on the 11th and 18th of May and the 1st and 8th June 2024. All this for only A$120.00

Please note there is no session on May 25th 2024.

This class will be recorded if you can’t attend live.

This class is an opportunity to:

• Practice present moment awareness and choice making.

• Helping your brain modulate your body reaction and stay in the optimal arousal zone

• Having the opportunity to practice movement in your body, on your own terms.

• Practice in the safety and comfort of your own environment.

• Practice as a community group virtually, enhancing neuroplasticity.

• Wear comfortable clothes, you will need a yoga mat, bolster and yoga block. You are welcome to substitute the bolster for a cushion or rolled up bath towel and the block for a book.

• Upon booking a zoom link will be sent to you for the class. The class will be recorded and copies available for those who cannot attend live.

  Please use the link below to book.

Individual Sessions

Individual sessions are also available. Each session is 45 minutes. Sessions can be booked by clicking on the button below.

If you are new to working with Martine please complete the contact us form on this page so that we can create a booking account for you.

Returning clients please use the book now button to schedule appointments.

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