Thrive Trauma-Informed Yoga

Honoring Sharathji’s life and teachings 🌹

This beautiful photo was captured in Pittsburgh by a decade ago. This posture is not as accessible as it used to be for me, due to health issues and because my body and yoga practice have naturally aged since then.

One of the gifts my practice has given me over the years is honoring (though not always liking) the wisdom of my limitations. The practice helps me in continuously working on discernment about how to relate to the voice that urges me to slow down, modify or avoid certain situations or poses.

The theme I offered my delightful group of students at today’s trauma-informed yoga class at was framing our “limitations” and physical particularities as teachers, rather than viewing them through the lens of systemic or attachment trauma, which often frames them as evidence of our badness.

Come join us in our ongoing exploration next Saturday at 10 AM!