Candice Clark, liscenced counselor and certified yoga therapist, shares her story with Shira, of how her experiences led to seeking ways to heal and process her PTSD, trauma and discovering yoga therapy.

Candice loves evidence-based Yoga therapy because it's effective, long lasting and cost effective, whilst avoiding retraumatising or triggering traumatic experiences. Also explainsing the purpose of cognitive therapy and memory recall.

Find out why it's great when a trauma survivor actually gets up and leaves your trauma sensitive or trauma informed yoga class. Candice shares how daily exposure to inequality and violence contributes to constant hypervigilance.

We discuss the importance of trying out different modalities and inroads to prevent internalisation of rejection, how physiological and physical holding patterns of energy and emotions need to be experienced and released as an essential to healing trauma.

Work with Shira

Work with Candice Clark

Candice's Return to Presence probono program

Some research on yoga therapy compared to cognitive processing therapy:

https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars/archives/video_archive.cfm?SessionID=4014&Seriesid=98

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25004196/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33788599/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215954/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32160072/

Also mentioned:

Mindfulness-based stress reduction programe MBSR from Jon Kabat-Zinn

Peter Levine

Bessel van der Kolk

Pat Ogden

Candace Pert PhD. - Molecules of Emotions

Gabor Mate

Molly Birkholm