Trauma Informed Yoga and Guided Meditation

Led by Cicely Green, LCPC

Here is a 10 minute guided meditation to conclude the first season of Perspectives in Color podcast. This guided meditation was dedicated to my 10 week trauma yoga group led during the first year of the pandemic. I cue a calming yin yoga pose with each affirmation that is optional for you to do.

This practice is ideal for trauma survivors; racial, societal, and other systemic-based trauma survivors; (Black) therapists holding vicarious trauma; or anyone struggling with self doubt, confidence, or finding their way in life.

About Trauma Yoga

Trauma yoga is taught in a variety of ways, but for the most part it’s assuring the yoga poses and cues are not triggering or demanding to trauma survivors. I’ve evolved this type of practice into a type of yin yoga where we hold gentle postures while I recite self affirming mantras and trauma informed meditations.

Sometimes it can be hard for trauma survivors to verbally speak about what happened in their lives without flooding or dissociating, so this type of practice allows clients to process at their own pace. Trauma also causes survivors to not trust their instincts and intuition as a result of a mind body disconnection, so holding poses allows them to release their muscles and body while freeing their mind….further providing a gateway to access their soul and mind; therefore, healing the mind body connection.

It’s not about how one looks in the poses. It’s about one feels and using the body’s stillness as a way to access the mind and energy.

Book therapy with me if you’re interested in incorporating trauma yoga in your psychotherapy sessions