Ebook: Overcoming trauma through yoga: reclaiming your body

Reclaiming your body -- Traumatic stress -- A brief history of traumatic stress and trauma treatment -- Historical views on mental health symptoms -- Link between traumatic events and symptoms -- Veterans and traumatic stress -- Expansion of the application of the PTSD diagnosis -- Modern-day treatment models for post-traumatic stress -- Complex trauma and the limitations of available treatment models -- More recent treatments -- The future of trauma treatment -- Trauma and the survival response -- The impact of trauma -- Yoga as trauma treatment -- Yoga -- The origins of yoga -- Yoga in the West -- Trauma-sensitive yoga -- The need for trauma-sensitive yoga -- Key themes of trauma-sensitive yoga -- Experiencing the present moment -- Making choices -- Taking effective action -- Creating rhythms -- For survivors -- Developing a trauma-sensitive yoga practice -- An at-home practice -- For clinicians -- Integrating yoga-based practices into the therapy office -- Matching interventions to goals -- Creating present-moment focus -- Developing mindfulness skills -- Building curiosity and developing tolerance for experiencing sensation -- Changing relationship with the body -- Centering -- Grounding -- Building affect-regulation skills -- Breathing practices and affect regulation -- Practicing choice -- Integrating aspects of experience -- Increasing confidence -- Building connection to others -- Addressing challenges in introducing yoga-based strategies into the therapy office -- For yoga teachers -- Building a trauma-sensitive yoga class -- Language -- Assists -- Teacher qualities -- Environment -- Exercises -- Responding to triggered reactions in a yoga class -- Conclusions.