It’s Not About the Practices
Yoga has such an amazing wealth of practices to help us to calm our minds and regulate our nervous systems. However, it’s easy to focus on the practices themselves and forget about why we’re doing them in the first place.
Join Dr Lauren Tober and Dr Arielle Schwartz (she/her) as they talk about why it’s not all about the practices, and what we need to be asking instead.
Arielle is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, and Kripalu yoga teacher with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado. She is an internationally sought-out teacher and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma and the author of six books, including “The Complex PTSD Workbook”, “Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma”, and “The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook”. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
Arielle will be joining us for the next Mental Health and Yoga Summit starting on the 29th of August 2022 to talk about polyvagal theory and yoga.
The Summit is for Yoga Teachers who are interested in mental health and Mental Health professionals who are interested in yoga, and we do hope you can join us.
To be the first to hear when registration for this free online five-day Summit opens, head on over to www.mentalhealthandyogasummit.com.
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Hi, I'm Dr Lauren Tober!
As a Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher of nearly two decades and the author of Mental Health Aware Yoga: A Guide for Yoga Teachers, I'm passionate about integrating yoga and psychology on the mat, in the counselling room and in the world.
With the growing interest in mental health and yoga, yoga students are attending yoga classes for the mental health benefits in unprecedented numbers.
In fact, 79.4% of yoga students report practicing yoga for the mental health benefits.
It's important that Yoga Teachers know how to support them.
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