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By Lisa Parise, LCSW, TCTSY, Somatic Movement Therapist
Maybe you have taken a past yoga class and it wasn’t for you?
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) has a different intention than traditional yoga.
In some forms of traditional yoga, there is an emphasis on an external standard of perfection. That’s what often feels bad for people. Most of us can’t contort our bodies into those shapes. The reality is, the architecture of our bodies sometimes doesn’t allow for us to practice certain shapes. And a shape on one person’s body won’t look the same as a shape on another person’s body.
That’s why TCTSY focuses on your own internal experience.
The facilitator makes space for you to safely have your own internal experience. The actual shape doesn’t matter as much as allowing for you to feel how your body feels when you make the shape.
And when you start to get information about how your body feels when you make a shape, it starts to feel safer to feel.
When it feels safer to feel, feelings become more clear.
When feelings are more clear it becomes easier to make choices based on those feelings.
Trauma therapy is all about changing the baseline in one’s nervous system from being hyperactive/hypoactive to feeling safe. When our nervous system is regulated and operating from a place of safety, we have a greater sense of agency in our lives. This is because we’re not stuck in a reactive survival state where it’s not safe to take the time to process feelings and make decisions.
TCTSY is a gentle approach to restoring choice, agency, and clarity in our lives.
Lisa Parise, LCSW is a Somatic Trauma Therapist with training in Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Movement Therapy, and TCTSY. She provides trauma therapy intensives at Seeking Depth to Recovery, that specializes in the treatment of complex and non-verbal trauma, using experiential modalities in an intensive format. In as little as one 90-minute intensive therapy session, participants report marked insight into their anxiety, panic, depression, and trauma compared to their previous experience with traditional talk therapy.
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