What is Yoga?
Often seen as a form of exercise in the Western world, Yoga actually originated approximately 5,000 year ago in South Asia and India as an elaborate practice rooted in the culture it emerged from.
- Each style of yoga varies slightly in the postures that are taught, in the sequence of the movement, and in the way it is presented from teacher to student.
- Even within the same style of yoga, each "teacher" brings their own life experiences, culture, and learning into the practice they offer, so their teaching styles and classes may look and feel different.
- Likewise, each "student" of yoga will bring their own life experiences, culture, and learning into their own practice, which is why each form, movement, breath and style of yoga will feel different for every individual.
The style of yoga I offer, called Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, is informed by Hatha Yoga (a practice that involves moving and breathing), as well as years of neuroscience, trauma theory and attachment theory research.
Acknowledgement
I'd like to acknowledge that yoga has gone through immense colonization and westernization to become what we know of as "Yoga" in the Western world. As a result, the yoga I offer is a small subset of the whole system and process of the yoga lineage.