Today's conversation is intended to encourage you to start to evaluate how connected you are to your body. Be inspired by this personal conversation about how healing from traumatic events is possible and realistically how it looks in life. 

 Hear the personal story of Lindsay Yoakum, a student and yoga teacher who learned self-expression and healing through movement and yoga. 

This conversation isn't about fitness it's about healing from your past and learning how to disconnect from the head and get into the body. It is important to remember that everyone’s experience is different and you need a safe space to process trauma or even learn to connect with your body again. 

Here are some of the things Lindsey shares with us today:

• Her personal story and events that led her to be disconnected from her body such as her history of disordered eating, family systems, and her sexuality
• The event that led her to realize that her body didn’t feel safe and the trauma responses her body was showing her
• Her coming out experience and the impact it had on feeling safe in her body and coming to terms with her sexuality
• Learning to use movement as a tool for healing not punishing 
• Turning off the emotional faucet
• The importance of having choice
• The importance of having a place to process things
• Healing is not a quick process
• How to incorporate getting into your body with your favorite movement tool
• Her favorite fight, flight or freeze tools that help  her in the moment to ground herself

About Lindsay:

Lindsey’s journey started about 8 years ago when she began recovery from an eating disorder that had consumed her teenage years and left her profoundly disconnected from her physical, emotional, and spiritual body. Movement has helped her learn that she is capable of staying in her body during moments of intensity or discomfort and it has taught her that she and her body are on the same team. Her teaching philosophy is to provide a safe and inclusive space designed to give students the freedom to come as they are, and to provide a safe and open dialogue of taking up space and using the breath and body to move through emotions while staying in the present moment. 

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