{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 10: Trauma-sensitive yoga w\/ Jennifer Turner","description":"Trauma-sensitive yoga helps sufferers use their bodies to heal their spirits Jennifer Turner was a voice student at the New England Conservatory of Music when her instructor approached her during a rehearsal. \u201cYou,\u201d her instructor observed, \u201caren\u2019t in your body.\u201d It took her a while before she understood what her instructor meant, but when she did, it would change her life. She took yoga classes, and the body control that yoga encouraged her to heal from her own trauma she still was carrying. It was, she said, \u201clike coming home.\u201d The awakening guided her to a new calling: using yoga to help people who had suffered psychological trauma from physical and emotional abuse or neglect, and helping them reconnect with their bodies. Today, Turner is the co-director of Justice Resource Institute\u2019s Center for Trauma and Embodiment, where she and co-director and founder Dave Emerson use Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) to help victims of physical or sexual abuse, neglect or other trauma use their bodies to heal their minds and spirits. She recently edited and co-wrote a book about her work. It\u2019s called \u201cEmbodied Healing: Survivor and Facilitator Voices from the Practice of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga.\u201d The book, available online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble, describes her work and research and recounts \u201cwhat it\u2019s like to heal.\u201d Included are the observations and research findings of yoga facilitators trained in trauma-sensitive yoga that has helped sufferers of complex trauma heal their hearts, minds and bodies. Complex trauma can produce a host of symptoms, from racing heartbeat to changes in breathing, hyper-vigilance about any change in their physical environment, depression and anxiety, loss of control of their own bodies or even the loss of feeling in their bodies. TCTSY helps clients reconnect and exert control over their bodies \u2014 something that Turner describes as \u201creinhabiting\u201d their bodies after deep psychological trauma, usually at the hands of a trusted parent or guardian, coach, teacher or religious figure who abused the power of their position to manipulate their victims.   The techniques of TCTSY, which involve a yoga facilitator who suggests rather than instructs and who never touches a student, are being taught at hundreds of places around the globe, sometimes as a supplement to traditional forms of \u201ctalk therapy\u201d and sometimes in the absence of talk therapy. The principles of TCTSY are used in more and more traditional yoga classes because facilitators recognize that many of their students come to yoga to help them heal from trauma in their own lives. \u201cThe goal isn\u2019t yoga,\u201d Turner said. \u201cThe goal is reclaiming your body through yoga.\u201d You can listen to Jennifer Turner discuss her work here. And you can purchase her book at amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. If you\u2019d like to try a TCTSY class, please visit www.traumasensitiveyoga.com or www.jri.org\/tctsy-classes. ","author_name":"Justice In Action","author_url":"https:\/\/jri.org\/","html":"