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

What is the biggest lesson you can learn from breathwork and meditation? How can a tragic event alter the course of your life? Can consistent meditation practice build resilience in a person?

Kushal Choksi is an author, entrepreneur, and a chocolatier. He practices and teaches breathwork and meditation. And once upon a time, he was a Wall Street trader.

Kushal started his career as a quantitative analyst with Goldman Sachs. He left his position as Vice President of Asset Management there to join Athilon, an investment fund. Having helped ramp up a $45 billion portfolio, he then moved to India to join BlackRock's Fixed Income business, where he managed billions of dollars in funds. After returning to New York, he submitted to his passion for entrepreneurship and started his own tech startup.

He and his wife now run Elements Truffles, a New York-based artisanal chocolate company built on values of Ayurveda, sustainability, giving back, and ethical trade. Kushal is a trainer of personal development, meditation, wellness, and leadership programs for the Art of Living Foundation. He has taught secrets of breathwork and meditation to thousands across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Visit Kushal's website and read his book, On a Wing and On a Prayer. Connect with him on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

• Kushal's lessons from breathwork
• The impact of life-altering events
• Meditation for resilience

You lose:

- Stress

- Depression

- Limiting concepts

- Limiting conditioning of your mind that keeps you stuck in reactive patterns

Everything that we do comes from a pattern in our mind that was formed due to previous experiences that we have had.

These patterns can be changed by awareness, pausing, and acting intentionally. Both mediation and breathwork provide you with the ability to be aware and to pause, and these combined enable you to act and make changes with intention.

Tragedies can make people more receptive to new spiritual paths because impactful events in life make people pause and take a moment to ask bigger questions, instead of being caught up in the bustle of life.

The most recent global event has been the pandemic. It caused almost every person to ask the same questions and to look at their life, how they are living, and question whether it aligns with them or not.

Are you putting in the effort that you want to in your job, your relationships, and your passions? Or are you distracted by the bustle of everyday life?

A daily practice of meditation and breathwork can build resilience in a person. So much so, that when life gives them challenges, they are not swayed too much, because they have a sense of stability within themselves.

Meditation and breathwork provide people with detachment and calmness which helps them relate more calmly to their emotions; they cannot be swayed by them instantly.

You become so natural, you become so resilient and strong that you can move through challenges without getting tossed around. That inner sense of confidence and strength lets you cut through these obstacles. (Kushal Choksi)

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What are some of the surprising mental health benefits clients can receive from drumming? How does music interact with mood? What are some tips for therapists who want to start a drum circle?

At Drum for Change, Greg Whitt facilitates workshops and retreats designed to connect people to one another and to the world around them. Greg studied holistic lifestyle practices in graduate school at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. His studies focused on how ancient wisdom traditions can benefit modern society. His studies support his work in leading interactive and experiential education programs in corporations, congregations, communities, and classrooms. Cleverly disguised as music, his programs are actually hands-on philosophy, teaching how to live, work, and play well together in a community.

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• Drumming benefits for mental health
• Music and mood
• Advice for therapists wanting to start a drumming group

Dr. Barry Bittman, a neurologist, came together with a music therapist to study the benefits of music and drumming on people's physiological wellbeing.

Together, they did clinical studies on the benefits of music alongside treatment when working with patients who struggled with burnout and cancer.

It is a well-known phenomenon that putting on your favorite song or the songs that you loved from your youth will get you in a better mood if you are feeling down. There is science behind this.

Drumming, dancing, and singing are all ways in which people can engage with the music instead of only sitting and listening to it.

Becoming involved in the music and with the community that is creating the music has been shown to dramatically improve overall mood, wellbeing, and help people to regulate their emotions.

• To start the group, you need a certain number of enthusiasts from the start who want to join in to get it going.
• Consider the cost of purchasing equipment because renting can be a potential hazard in case drums or instruments are damaged by people.
• Have some training in leading a drum circle.
• Remember that it is not about drumming.
• Take part in drum circles in your area to get an idea of what they can be about.

The measure of success isn't musicality, and it's not about the instruments that you use. It's about the relationships that you're creating during the occasion, and that's what really makes all the difference. (Greg Whitt)

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How does your perception shape the way you view the world? Is it possible to transform your negative thought patterns? What can you do to intentionally improve your life from your thoughts to your reality?

Cassidy Rey is a Psychic/Medium Spiritual Healer who provides clients with messages from their Spirit Guides and Angels, and the mastermind behind Let's Get Friggin' Weird. Cassidy did her undergraduate in Psychology and began a master's program at the University of San Diego to be a Clinical Mental Health Counselor. However, as she progressed in her master's program, she couldn't see herself conforming to the "counselor" life. With that feeling, she took a leap of faith and dropped out of school to start pursuing a different dream; becoming a Holistic Life Coach: Psychic/Medium.

Cassidy was around the age of 2 when she first started to feel, see, and talk to spirits. She created her own Psychic/Medium business, 'Let's Get Friggin' Weird', and took off on a 6-month road trip around the United States to spread her gifts of healing to other people. Her goal is to continue to share her gift with the world and give people the healing messages they need to become their best and highest self.

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• Perception
• Transforming negative thought patterns
• You need to believe it

The world is what you make it to be. Manifestation and perception go together, and manifestation is not about wishing for love or more money.

On a deeper level, manifestation is about your mindset, how you wake up in the morning and face the day, the way you speak to yourself, and the way to speak out into the world. All of this becomes and influences your reality.

In this way, depending on how you think, speak, and act, you can also manifest negative things into your life if you are not aware of yourself, your emotions, and your thoughts. Manifestation and creating a calm, nourishing life are intentional.

By speaking out negative words, you give them life. If you struggle with finding a partner, and you call yourself "unlovable", you are giving that reality life.

However, if you focus on loving yourself, you give the presence of love a reality in your life.

If you feel love, you find, see, and interact more with love. If you feel loneliness, and speak it into reality, you find, see, and interact more with the feeling of loneliness.

Changing your thoughts and limiting beliefs are not going to happen on their own. You must put in some work as well, and believe the thing that you want is possible, and on its way to you.

Creating your thoughts and manifesting is not about writing a list on a piece of paper. It is about you working to change how you think about yourself and the world. You, essentially, are changing the world for yourself. You start the shift.

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Have you heard of comprehensive energy psychology? How can energy work combine with psychotherapy? How can therapists use these techniques to maintain their energy in session?

Stacey Shapiro has been on a mission to assist families and therapists in finding peace. She has spent the last 20 years developing an intuitive and integrative approach to her work as a Clinical Social Worker, Play Therapist, and Master Life Coach. She specializes in anxiety and trauma amongst children, teens, and adults. Stacey's down-to-earth style, collaborative and intuitive nature make it easy for her clients to find success. Currently, she is in private practice through tele-mental health.

Her extensive work history includes teaching classes on Play Therapy and Human Development and Family Studies. Currently, she is running a coaching program for self-care and awakening for mental health therapists. She is also developing a parent coaching program, called the P.E.A.C.E. program.

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• Comprehensive energy psychology
• Using EFT in therapy
• Biofield
• Stacey's advice to new holistic counselors

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Comprehensive energy psychology works on three energy systems:

1 – Meridians

2 – Chakras

3 – Biofields

Using this combined approach of energy work and bodily sensations to move through stagnant emotions can enable the psychotherapeutic process to go more smoothly.

Certified therapists can use EFT tapping and conscious word pairings in therapy if their client is open to it. A combination of tapping and word pairing is most effective in regulating an anxious person.

Tapping is a way to regulate energy flow throughout the body and conscious word pairings help to calm someone down by expressing how they feel. For example:

"I am anxious about this event however I know I will be safe on the other side".

Conscious word pairings help a client to validate their current feeling while placing their future in a comfortable setting, in a place where the current anxiety has ended, and they feel calm.

Your biofield, also known as the aura, is your circle of energy.

You can consciously expand it or bring it closer to you when you feel like you are being impacted by the negative energies of other people around you.

Some quick tips on cleansing your aura:

- Using sound

- Using your hands, place them in front of you and imagine your aura stops where your hands reach

- Use visualization and your imagination to think of waterfalls to clear the biofield and close it so that other people's energies cannot come in and drain yours.

Therapists can use these techniques to keep themselves "safe" from their client's negative energies during counseling sessions.

It is also important for empaths to make use of these techniques to keep themselves grounded.

If you want to release energy quickly, take deep breaths in and out. When you breathe in, say the word "relax", and when you breathe out, say the word "release". Go into any part of your body that feels tense and practice this breathing technique to soothe this tension.

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Why does psychology matter in gut health? Can you use your psychology as a powerful tool to promote healing in your physical body? How can your body and mind help one another to recenter and find peace?

Dr. Jennifer Franklin is an experiential, relational, somatic, and mindfulness-based psychologist with about twenty years of psychotherapy experience. She has an educational background in mind-body/holistic psychology. Dually licensed in North Carolina and California, Dr. Franklin offers individual and couples therapy, teletherapy, and consultation.

Dr. Franklin worked at the UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders and specializes in healing functional medical problems, especially Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction like IBS, along with issues associated with anxiety, panic, interpersonal relationships, attachment, and trauma. She has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, has taught mindfulness/Vipassana meditation, and has been a long-time yoga practitioner.

Visit the Don't Hate Your Guts website as well as Open Door Therapy. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. Email her at [email protected]

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• Why does psychology matter in treating the gut
• Be aware of your influence
• Use your body to help your mind

The messages that flow from the gut to the brain are essential for proper brain function because they are messengers of homeostasis in the body.

This is because the gut gives information about the environment that the body is in. This information is sent by the gut to the brain.

On the other hand, people's psychology impacts them in various ways. People's desires, perceptions, wants, needs, and fears fluctuate daily. This is an important variable because, with awareness, one can influence it to create positive change.

Even though someone cannot control their symptoms, they can control their thoughts and can work to shift their perspective for the greater good of their physical health.

This is where psychology becomes important in physical health: be aware of the influence that you can have over your thoughts.

Use this ability benevolently and help your healing, instead of hyper-focusing on what is wrong. Focus on what you can influence positively.

Just as how you can use your mind to help your body, you can use your body to help your mind overcome stress and anxiety.

Moving the body with slow, steady, and calm movements shows the brain that the body is safe, not in danger, and can relax.

Activities such as yoga and gentle exercise help regear the mind from being in an activated nervous system to getting back "into the body", out of the mind, and therefore in the present moment, as oftentimes anxiety and stress are future-related.

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What's holding you back from an abundant life? Are you ready to discover how to manifest the holistic practice you most desire?

Petia Kolibova is a women's transformation coach who helps women who have been pushed down and been playing it small due to toxic relationships or unhealed childhood trauma to create a life that is true to them and their soul purpose.

Her mission is to help women who are on the path to healing from past wounds move through their limiting beliefs and internal blocks so they can finally do what feels good to them.

Petia pairs feminine flow with strategic planning to give entrepreneurs immense clarity and exact steps to transition from side-hustler to CEO. If she is not interviewing on her podcast Unapologetically Abundant, working out, or reading, you will find her in nature disconnecting from the world, connecting to herself.

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• How are you choosing to look at the world?
• The alignment with yourself, purpose, and values
• What is Human design
• How to have an abundance mindset
• How you can use affirmations

What are your beliefs? What are you putting out into the world? Do you believe that running a business is hard work?

We all have the opportunity to learn from those people who are already where we want to be. Life doesn't have to be hard and we don't have to go through the struggle before we can reach success.

It is possible for us to choose ease and look at the world differently – and this is what will reflect back to you.

It is important for you to start asking yourself these questions and affirming what it is that you want:

• What are you truly experiencing in your life?

• Who do you want to be working with?

• Who are your ideal clients?

• How do you feel and how do they feel?

• What's the session like?

In order for you to do your best work and impact your clients' lives in a meaningful way, you need to know whether they align with you. It really is important that you know yourself and know what you want your life to look like and feel like and then make decisions based on that.

This is a map of your unique genetic design, with detailed information on both conscious and unconscious aspects of yourself. It guides you to discover your own truth.

Knowing what your Human Design is will guide you on how to navigate life. It will detail your talents, skills, and potential and it will give you a map for actualizing these. You can begin to understand how you are designed to engage with the world and it will show you where you are susceptible to your environment's influence and conditioning.

*Discover your Human Design

It's very easy to identify the things that you are lacking and what is not working. You need to shift your mindset to focus on what is working already.

Stop focusing on the 'lack of' and put your energy into the positive aspects. Shift from a space of 'this is missing and I don't have it' to 'what do I love, what do I have?'

Your affirmations have to be believable; you can start with some general ones but affirmations help you reprogram your belief system. Instead of focusing on the challenge and what is not working, affirmations help you rewrite your beliefs and how you're feeling.

Creating affirmations on what you want to be focusing on in your life and making them general enough and emotional enough, so that you can feel them and believe them, is the key!

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Are you able to tap into your intuition? Do you bring it into your therapy sessions to help clients? Perhaps you are uncertain about how to do this and want to learn more!

Janis R. Cohen has been a licensed therapist for almost 30 years and is also a clairvoyant, empath, and medium. She is internationally knowns as The Intuitive Therapist and offers Intuitive Therapeutic Readings (a process that is unique to her in the field of psychotherapy), Past Life Regression hypnotherapy, and Intuitive Therapy Programs. Janis works with spiritually conscious people who struggle to make decisions and take action. She helps them feel confident and certain about their decisions and live fulfilling lives.

In 2016, Janis published her first book called The Intuitive Therapist, which helps therapists, coaches, and counselors accelerate and empower their clinical practices with the wisdom of their intuition.

Janis's podcast, The Intuitive Therapist Podcast, merges intuition, spirituality, metaphysics, and therapeutic wisdom to teach listeners how they can master their emotional, psychological, spiritual, and financial destinies.

Visit Janis's website and listen to The Intuitive Therapist Podcast.

Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

You can reach her by calling: 404-558-3971. Email her at [email protected]

• What is intuition
• Clair(s) - 4 ways we receive information
• Intuitive gifts
• How to tap into your intuition
• Using your intuition in session with clients

Intuition in its simplest form is your gut instinct guiding you. It shows up in different ways, it can be really subtle or it can be quite 'loud'.

Subtle intuition could be when you get an inkling to call someone because you have been thinking about them, or you can get intuitive signs which reinforce the hunch you've had had.

If you're in danger, you could get a very clear, loud, urgent sign to change course.

1. Claircognizance means clear knowing.

2. Clairsentience means clear feeling.

3. Clairvoyance means clear seeing.

4. Clairaudience means clear hearing.

Each of us has a primary way of receiving information. So how do you figure out which one is yours?

These intuitive gifts are available to everyone. When people are in touch with their intuitive gifts, it's a knowingness inside. This is a neutral knowing, in the same way there is a 6th sense, which you can't always explain.

1. Create an intention to do so: get really clear about what your intuitive sense is vs what your ego says.

2. Create awareness: be in a state of awareness so that you are open to receiving information.

3. Be in an imaginative state: be in the here and now, be open to anything being a possibility and embrace being playful.

4. Develop intuitive currency with yourself: keep track of your intuitive nudges in a notebook, you will then start building up your intuitive currency and intuitive trust.

5. Trusting what you get: don't ignore those subtle nudges.

6. Taking action on what you receive: this can guide you to just be.

7. Validation: when you step into the life of being an intuitive person.

*You can read more about this in Janis' book: The Intuitive Therapist

As a therapist, it's amazing to be able to draw from the vision of insight that you have and you're able to pick up on things that your client is struggling to put into words, or maybe they are not even aware of.

It is important that you trust yourself and lean into those nudges or hunches and share them with your clients. More often than not, it is indicative of the way they are feeling, or something they are going through, but they may just not be able to verbalize it in a way that makes sense.

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What is angel healing in therapy? How is angel healing another form of energetic treatment? Can you connect to your angels in your conscious mind?

A psychologist with a 25-year-old private practice, Heidi Dalzell has long known the benefits of self-exploration. As a lifelong seeker, Heidi has studied many spiritual practices and traveled widely, bringing her connections into private practice. These influences include Mindfulness and Buddhist inquiry, an appreciation for Hinduism and Bhakti yoga, and many New Age practices. She believes that true healing incorporates mind (psychology), body (somatic practices, such as yoga), and spirit (connection with the higher self and the Divine).

Heidi has trained with a number of healers, and in addition to her credential as a doctor of psychology, she is a certified spiritual coach, a certified past-life regressionist, and a certified angel guide. Heidi works with people throughout the US in her coaching practice. She is an avid writer and teacher and has appeared on numerous podcasts.

Check out the Soulful Connections Coaching website and Facebook page.

Visit Heidi's personal website. Contact her practice at (215) 630-7154 or email her at [email protected]

• What are angels?
• Your angels
• Getting to know your angels
• What is angel healing?

The ideas behind what angels are may be informed by your religious background. For some people, angels are guardians or loved ones who have passed on. For others, angels are messengers from God.

Across the board, angels are believed to be energetic beings that want to help and guide people. People project human forms onto them in a way to empathize and connect more easily with the concept of angels. What angels look like, if you believe in them, is quite dependent on you.

Each person has angels. You have guardian angels who have been with you for many lifetimes.

The relationship that you form with your angels is unique to you and them. They may come to you in a vision, or as a physical touch, or energetic sensation. Each of your angels will feel different to you: your guardian angel will feel different from an archangel.

Your angels want to connect with you. They want to help people, but they cannot connect to and guide them if the person is not open to receiving their messages and opening that channel of connection.

There are different ways for you to begin meeting your angels:

• Enter a meditative state
• Say "guardian angel, thank you for allowing me to know you". Talk with them in a way where you thank them for what you are hoping for them to do
• Then, ask them what you would like to know
• Listen for the answer and be in stillness.

It is a part of the energetic world. Therefore, angel healing is a form of energy healing.

It connects to what the client is struggling with and encourages them to deepen their connection to themselves and their spirituality.

As a therapist, it is possible to form energetic attachments to your clients, especially when you are treating them through difficult issues of their own.

Sometimes you may need to perform a chord-cutting ceremony to separate yourself from their energy to protect your own and to maintain the therapeutic process.

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Are you interested in becoming certified in and providing biofeedback in your practice? What are the differences between neurofeedback and biofeedback? How do these integrative tools provide treatments to clients that are both science-backed and holistic?

Dr. Roseann is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children's Mental Health, and Dr. Roseann, LLC, which is, "Changing the way we view and treat children's mental health". She is known for brain-based solutions for struggling kids and her work has helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions, such as ADHD, anxiety, mood, autism, learning disability, Lyme, and PANS/PANDAS using PROVEN holistic therapies such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, and psychotherapy.

She is the author of the first-ever book on teletherapy activities for child and adolescent therapists, "Teletherapy Toolkit" and "It's Gonna be OK!" She gives parents step-by-step solutions for their struggling kids with her books and remote neurofeedback program. A media personality, she is often featured on dozens of media outlets: Fox, CBS, NBC, PARENTS, and New York Times.

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• Holistic treatment
• Biofeedback and neurofeedback
• Becoming certified

Holistic strategies do not go against or challenge other medical approaches to wellness, recovery, and healing. Clients do not have to pick one or the other. You can work with a combination of different approaches to wellness without thinking that you must "pick a side".

Culturally people think that taking a pill or going to counseling is going to resolve the issue in full. However, full treatment often requires a set of different strategies, depending on the severity of the issue.

Your brain struggles to learn when it has shut down due to illness, stress, or unresolved trauma. Taking a pill may mask symptoms but it will not resolve the problem.

This is why holistic treatment can be life-changing for some people because it combines physical wellness with mental and emotional wellness for an integrated approach to recovery.

With biofeedback, you are using your brain to think about regulating your breath, heart rate, muscle tension.

The combination of synchronizing and deepening the breath to calm the heart rate is a popular therapeutic exercise in soothing the autonomic nervous system, which is the body's stress manager.

The goal is to learn how to move from an activated autonomic nervous system state into a parasympathetic nervous system state: moving from stressed and anxious to calm and present.

On the other hand, neurofeedback uses technology at a more subconscious level.

Through receiving reinforcement for producing healthy brain waves, the brain will begin to change how it works. These tools help people to get out of being only within their thoughts and back into their body sensations, which are running the show.

Biofeedback training is shorter, more affordable, and something that you can do on your own without guidance from a mentor. Go to the website https://www.bcia.org/ for more information.

Neurofeedback training, however, is more extensive, expensive, and time-intensive. You are required and encouraged to work with a mentor to become fully certified.

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How can clinical hypnotherapy treat anxiety in its totality? What are the benefits of past life regression and healing physical pain? How does past life regression depend on the wisdom of the heart center?

Carolyn began with spiritual practices in the late 1990s with Reiki, EFT training, and all things metaphysical. She then completed her original hypnotherapy training at The Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment center in Virginia Beach VA with the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists (N.A.T.H.). She continued her education by receiving her Master's Hypnotherapy training with the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (I.A.C.T.)

Carolyn is also a Medical Reiki Master~Teacher, EFT practitioner and a Past Life, Life Between Lives Regressionist. She is a Certified Angel Intuitive Healer with Marcia Hebrank, who trained directly with Doreen Virtue.

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• What is past life regression?
• Heart center over the thinking mind
• Healing anxiety
• Past life regression and trauma

People's subconscious minds can carry memories and patterns from past lives into a person's current life. They may be working on patterns and behaviors that they inherited and are not necessarily their own.

Through uncovering them and healing them a person can let them go, and be freer to make space and decisions that serve them best for where they are currently at.

- Memories can be stored in the physical or mental body

- People can attract the same kind of relationships in people due to unresolved past experiences

During past life regression sessions, Carolyn guides her clients to listen to and ask questions to their heart center instead of their thinking minds.

Their thinking mind is their conscious self, the person who they have grown up to be thus far in their current life, and this mind is limited to what it understands and remembers from the current life.

The heart center is connected to the subconscious, so it is through here that a client can more easily access any past life experiences they may have had.

Through clinical hypnosis and past life regression sessions, a person can be healed from their anxiety by going back to the first time that they experienced this stress, and coping with it from the root.

Instead of working with the symptoms and trying to treat the aspects of anxiety, clinical hypnosis seeks to treat the root cause of the anxiety in the first place.

If someone goes into a past life regression session and they witness old traumas, Carolyn advises them to treat it as if they were watching a movie and not reliving the same experiences twice.

Before a session starts, Carolyn and the client will establish a safe place, and if a person feels overwhelmed, they can move into their safe place and continue with their healing.

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