The Neuroscience of Healing: Somatics in Trauma-Informed Yoga

In this webinar, Shaye Molendyke teaches about the neuroscience of healing through somatic yoga that's entrenched in a trauma-informed practice. Gain understanding on the constructions of the brain and how creating new patterns can change the brain's neuroplasticity to help with healing. 

Somatic Yoga As Part Of A Trauma-Informed Practice 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Understanding Schemas: The brain and nervous system create our experiences through learned patterns called schemas, which can be altered through somatic practices.
• Focus Areas in Trauma-Informed Yoga: The somatosensory cortex and motor cortex are key brain regions in trauma-informed yoga, where sensory input influences motor output.
• Effectiveness of Somatic Practices: Somatic practices are more effective than traditional yoga stretching in creating new schemas and patterns, promoting neuroplasticity and healing from trauma.

In This Webinar: What You'll Learn

The brain and nervous system construct our experiences of the world. These constructions are called Schemas and these schemas are learned adaptive patterns that can be deconstructed and reconstructed through somatic practices.

The primary areas of the brain we are focused on in trauma informed yoga is the somatosensory cortex and the motor cortex. Sensory input drives motor output.

Somatic practices are more effective at creating new schemas and patterns in the nervous system than "stretching" in yoga. These new patterns are what create the neuroplasticity changes in the brain and are what "healing" looks like after trauma.

About Shay Molendyke 

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Shaye Molendyke, a 28 year Air Force veteran, is the Creator and Director of: Yogafit for Warriors and Yogafit for Warrior Kids. These trauma-informed yoga programs are designed to help and empower anyone struggling with PTSD or with unresolved physical and emotional trauma to include yoga teachers, mental health workers, educators, veterans, their families, first responders and those who help and love them.

Shaye is also a yoga therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and specializes in working with groups and individuals to help process unresolved traumas to include long-held childhood traumas. She earned her Master’s in Counseling from the University of Maryland in 2003 while she was in the military and spent a year working directly with veterans returning from the Iraq war on the in-patient psychiatric ward at Landstuhl base Germany.

Additional Resources

• YogaFit Worldwide  
• 100-Hour Warrior Kids Program 
• 200-Hour Warrior Program 
• Healthcare Yoga Therapy
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