Yoga in the Therapy Room: Tips for integrating trauma informed yoga

What does it mean to be an HSP? What challenges come with being an HSP and what holistic strategies can you use to overcome the overwhelm of being highly sensitive?

MEET Erika Belanger

Erika is a yoga teacher, somatic coach, and the host of the On & Off Your Mat Podcast. For the last 8 years, Erika has helped sensitive women let go of overwhelm and overthinking by learning to manage their thoughts, feel their feelings, and heal their nervous system through mind-body-spirit practices. She's living proof of the power of self-healing as she herself has grown and worked through eating disorders, chronic illness, addiction, mental illness, patterns of self-sabotage & self-abandonment, and childhood trauma. She teaches online and in-person, for week-long retreats bringing her students and clients on a journey of awareness, compassion, embodiment, and transformation.

Find out more at Erika Belanger and connect with Erika on Instagram & Facebook

On & Off Your Mat Podcast

IN THIS PODCAST:

• Recognizing the signs that you may be an HSP 3:18
• Finding and understanding the source of your overwhelm 15:00
• What are some holistic practices that can help HSP? 19:32

• Understanding the energy cycle of being highly sensitive
• The importance of understanding how your body reacts to stress
• What does it mean to widen your window of tolerance
• How each HSP is unique in their symptoms

• Are you more prone to anxiety as an HSP?
• The importance of accepting and embracing yourself as a highly sensitive person
• Finding ways to stay within your window of tolerance

• The importance of integrating many practices and touching on all aspects of your wellbeing
• How do your thoughts affect your emotions?
• What is a "Thought Protocol?"
• Bringing your emotions back into your body and integrating movement and being present
• What is an "Orienting Practice"?
• Integrating spirituality into your holistic approach

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Why is it so essential to create a holistic space that aligns with your holistic self? What questions should you ask yourself when creating your holistic space?

In this holistic short, I will discuss what goes into setting up a space that suits your holistic needs. I will go over some important questions that you should always ask yourself when setting up your space and why it is so important to set your intention before you begin the process.

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Do you suffer from the impact of migraines? Can incorporating yoga into your daily routine alleviate your migraine symptoms?

MEET Adriane Dellorco

Adriane Dellorco (RYT200) is one of the world's leading experts on yoga for migraine. She is the founder of Yoga for Migraine, an online community that offers transformational yoga and coaching programs to people living with migraine and headache disorders.

She is a lifelong dancer and yoga practitioner who has been living with migraines since 2007. Adriane has been featured in the 2021 Migraine World Summit, Migraine.com, the National Headache Foundations For Head's Sake Podcast, HealthCentral, and Healthline.

Her certifications in Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Pain Care Aware Yoga have given her cutting-edge skills to help clients with chronic migraine reduce their chronic pain symptoms and feel more empowered in their daily lives.

In addition to offering migraine-friendly yoga practices in her online classes and group coaching programs, Adriane makes yoga accessible to the wider migraine community in collaboration with organizations like Miles for Migraine and RetreatMigraine. She is proud to advocate Congress every year in Headache on the Hill and to be a finalist in Wego Health's 2022 Social Health Awards in the Creative Contributor category.

Adriane is a member of the Education Council for Headache Online, an Accessible Yoga Ambassador, and is pursuing her IAYT yoga therapist certification.

As a mother of two and a former public school teacher, she brings her life experience living with migraine into her healing yoga practices.

Adriane's mission is to help others decrease their own migraine pain and increase their quality of life with yoga.

Find out more at Yoga Migraine and connect with Adriane on Facebook & Instagram

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What are the negative impacts of migraines? 3:56
• Making lifestyle changes when dealing with migraines 9:01
• Overcoming fear when experiencing migraines 15:53

• Understanding that migraines affect everyone differently
• Taking a holistic approach to dealing with migraines
• The importance of finding the right combination of care to deal with your specific needs
• Seeking community when dealing with migraine symptoms

• What is SEEDS?
• Incorporating gentle yoga moves into your daily routine
• Learning to adjust the intensity of your daily movement
• Finding tools to calm our nervous system

• Finding your migraine triggers
• How to integrate breathwork with gentle movement
• What is Restorative Yoga?
• How to be more proactive and ask yourself the right questions about your self-care

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What are the mental health benefits of traditional indigenous medicine? How can these healing practices be integrated with holistic practices to care for your clients?

MEET Caara Lovick

Caara Lovick serves as a healing facilitator and translator for a project called "Traditional Medicine'' based out of Miami, FL. "Traditional Medicine '' is a unique project with the Q'ero community to connect their world-renowned Q'ero healers with people who want their services. Caara is also the host of a podcast called "Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara Lovick," which aims to educate and help people feel closer to these healing traditions. Caara has volunteered for various healers, including both Traditional Indigenous Amazonian and High Andean Healers of Peru, for over nine years. In addition, Caara builds community improvement projects in Miami, with a particular interest in developing worker-owned cooperative businesses.

Find out more at Traditional Medicine and connect with Caara on Instagram & Facebook

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What is traditional indigenous medicine? 5:33
• Who are the Q'ero? 10:53
• What kind of issues can traditional medicine help? 13:10
• How can you experience traditional indigenous healing? 17:02

• Why do people have reservations about traditional indigenous medicine?
• What are the limits of western medicine?
• The importance of having support from both western medicine and traditional medicine
• What is energetic vs. physical?

• Amazonian healer vs. Q'ero
• What are Coca readings?

• Recognizing energetic complications before they become physical complications
• The importance of recognizing and acknowledging any discomforts that we feel
• What is Kambo?

• The importance of getting to the root of your problem
• What are the many High Andean Healing Modalities?
• What is Ayahuasca and how is it different from Kambo?
• What should mental health providers know before referring clients to traditional indigenous medicine?

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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How can you begin to prioritize your self-care? How can incorporating self-soothing strategies into your daily routine not only help you but your clients as well?

IN THIS PODCAST:

• How to incorporate self-soothing strategies into your day-to-day routine 1:40
• Techniques to become more self-aware 4:10

• What does self-soothing do for your mind and body?
• The importance of regulating our emotions to better serve our clients
• What does it mean to be "preventative" when it comes to self-soothing?"
• Finding what works for you and recognizing your individual needs

• Identifying your triggers and how you respond to them
• The importance of making a list of priorities and sticking to it
• What is bottom-up processing?
• Grounding technique walk-through
• Self-soothing technique walk-through

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What is therapeutic dance? How can you integrate physical and emotional aspects of the body to promote healing and overall well-being?

MEET Gabrielle Rivero

Gabrielle Rivero is the founder of the Lenae Release Method, a technique to guide participants through releasing emotions stored in their bodies to help reduce stress and anxieties and improve their well-being. She is the founder and CEO of Express & Release Therapeutic Dance, which creates safe spaces for the community to learn to accept their emotions, express them through movement, to release them from the self. She holds a MA in Theology, where she focused on the Euro-American rejection of movement and the body to better understand how we can embrace and embody movement within our American culture. She holds a BA in Recreation and Event Management with a double minor in dance and nonprofit leadership.

She is a dancer with over 15 years of experience learning the benefits of engaging with the body to release, emote, and heal from traumatic and stressful events. She has a dedication and commitment to helping people learn to use dance for self-expression, stress relief, and emotional regulation. Through her workshops, classes, and community engagement she hopes to cultivate healthier societies that foster better relationships with the self and the community. For people to feel empowered to freely express themselves through movement and not feel afraid to feel overwhelming emotions.

Find out more at Express & Release and connect with Gabrielle on Facebook

IN THIS PODCAST:

• Why do people tend to reject dance & movement? 4:36
• Why is movement so important in releasing emotion from the body? 17:35

• How do we engage with the world through movement and dance?
• What is your own internal dance?
• What does it mean to allow your body to have control?
• Strategies for removing distractions when practicing dance and movement
• Movement walkthrough

• How to engage with trauma in order to remove it from our bodies?
• What is Express & Release?
• Utilizing movement to help children express themselves
• Integrating dance into therapy

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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Do you struggle to accept the process of aging? What are the physical and mental impacts of midlife?

MEET Lisa Mustard

When I turned 40, I had a wake-up call. I was tired of going through the motions of my life and career as a therapist and wanted to pivot my skill set and do new things. Yet, I didn't know what those things would be, so I began testing out ideas and business opportunities. Some were busts, while others were successes!

Along the way though, I have learned incredible lessons:

First, when I work in alignment with my highest values and priorities, work is effortless and fun.

Second, is that failing at something isn't a death sentence. Failures are learning experiences. There is no failing, there's only learning and growing!

Third is that I need to be flexible in the methods I use while staying laser focused on my goals.

Combining all these lessons has brought me to where I am today - Podcaster and Coach.

The Therapy Show With Lisa Mustard helps talk therapists learn clinical information and skills, introduces them to others who are doing incredible work in the field, and teaches them professional development and much more.

I started the podcast because I was bored with the traditional modes of continuing education and professional development. I yearned for convenient education that was fun, interesting, inspiring, helpful, and easily accessible anywhere, anytime. And I couldn't find what I was looking for, so I decided to create it.

Find out more at Lisa Mustard and connect with Lisa on Facebook & Instagram

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IN THIS PODCAST:

• What is midlife and what brings us to this transition in our lives? 3:03
• What are the psychological impacts of aging? 8:13
• Assessing your highest priorities & values 13:53

• Understanding that each person's midlife is unique to them
• Learning to recognize and acknowledge when an existential situation occurs in our lives
• The importance of pivoting and relying on the skills you've acquired throughout your life

• How to embrace the freedom of allowing your body to go through changes
• Finding what works for you when taking care of your health and wellness
• Ways to find your purpose as you age

• The importance of making a list of your highest values
• How to incorporate self-care into your daily routine
• The benefits of taking the time to reprioritize your values
• What are the positive aspects of midlife?

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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Are you hesitant to integrate more holistic modalities into your practice? How can you overcome your fear of introducing and practicing holistic therapy without worry or restraint?

In this solo episode, I discuss why clinicians are hesitant to introduce new holistic modalities to their practice, and how to overcome these very common fears. I also go over the importance of seeking consultation to build confidence and expertise when using new modalities and what the impact is of not embracing your holistic self.

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What are the emotional and mental impacts of perimenopause and menopause? What are some of the holistic solutions to dealing with the symptoms of menopause?

MEET Adina Middleman

Adina Middleman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been a therapist for nearly 20 years. She currently serves adults and couples but began her therapy journey as a child therapist. Adina serves a diverse population and has an eclectic approach encouraging the client to "steer the ship". She was a foster care social worker, an intensive reunification case manager, a teacher in a psychiatric hospital, and a preschool teacher (to name a few) prior to going to graduate school. Adina has been married for 23 years and has two sons who are hopefully graduating college and high school this year.

Find out more about Adina at New Hope Counseling

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What are some of the symptoms of perimenopause & menopause? 2:45
• The importance of having an open dialogue about menopause 14:40
• Holistic strategies for dealing with menopause symptoms 24:10

• What are the "stereotypical," symptoms of menopause?
• What are some of the overlooked symptoms?
• Adapting your self-care when going through menopause
• Finding resources for managing symptoms

• Reducing the stigma associated with menopause
• The importance of seeking a support system and sharing your experiences with others
• Increasing awareness in order to improve healthcare for women
• Understanding your risk factors when seeking treatment for menopause symptoms

• Combining different holistic practices into your routine
• The importance of finding a practice that suits your unique needs
• Researching and partnering with your healthcare provider for effective treatments
• Avoiding information overload when researching menopause treatment and care and finding a safe place to discuss your experiences

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The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What is holistic layering and what are its benefits? How can you integrate mind, body, and spirit into every one of your therapy sessions?

In this first holistic short, I'm going to discuss what holistic layering is and how it can help you in your client sessions. I will discuss how to begin your holistic layering sessions, understanding your clients individual needs, and the importance of working these techniques along with your client and I will take you through a quick holistic layering walkthrough.

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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