Michele D. Ribeiro – Yoga for Trauma: Innovative Mind-Body Strategies that Help Clients Activate Healing Processes and Release the Negative Imprint of Trauma

Manual – Yoga for Trauma (3.30 MB)

79 Pages

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Outline

The Promise of Yoga for Treating Trauma

• Trauma prevalence
• Adverse childhood experiences
• Socio-cultural impacts of trauma
• Yoga research outcomes with veterans
• Higher retention, satisfaction and acceptability rates with yoga
• Why embodiment in psychotherapy treatment matters
• Risk and limitations of research

Bring Traditional Yoga Components to Contemporary Trauma Treatment

• The 4 pillars and 8 limbs
• Focus on rejuvenating the body
• Moral and ethical conduct considerations
• Established observances, including contentment and self-study
• Emphasis on internal and external purification
• Ascension of energy/vitality through asana and pranayama
• Ability to focus perception and mind on what is happening in the body

Bring Practical Neuroscience Applications to Contemporary Trauma Treatment

• Brainwaves and patterns and their interface with yoga practices
• The Triune Brain Left and right brain functions in understanding trauma
• Managing anxiety with a focused attention meditation method

Yoga as a Therapy Tool

• Teach the brain and body to work in harmony
• Learn to stretch some parts of the body and relax other parts
• Yoga’s impact on controlling the effect of the brain on the body
• Diffuse vital, healing energy throughout the body

Yoga Nidra (Changing States of Consciousness)

• Conscious entry into non-REM sleep
• IRest (Integrative Restoration)
• Core principles 10 tools 8, 15, and 30-minute script examples of practice sessions*

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Scripts; Physical Movements and Forms

• Expand capacity for self-awareness and selfregulation
• Standing, seated, supine, and prone postures and forms with supports*
• Shifting relationship with self to foster patience, internal sense of safety, a felt sense of control, and personal agency
• Key themes in trauma-informed yoga for individual and group work
  • Experiencing the present moment (example with Tadasana/Mountain pose)*
  • Making choices (example with simple neck rolls)*
  • Taking effective action (Example with present moment awareness and making changes)*
  • Creating rhythms (example with cat pose/form and exploring rhythm between movement and breathing)*
• Chair-Focused Trauma Yoga
  • Focused meditation*
  • Seated neck rolls/seated shoulder circles*
  • Seated mountain*
  • Sun breath*
  • Seated twists*
  • Seated forward folds*
• Facilitating a group therapy session
  • Informed consent
  • Match goals with postures and forms
  • Provide resources

*Social workers: Please note that ACE credit is not available for yoga instruction/guided experience activities.

Faculty

Michele D. Ribeiro, ED.D., CGP

Michele D. Ribeiro, EdD, CGP, is a Licensed Psychologist, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Certified Yoga Instructor and a Children/Teens Meditation Course Teacher. She has been applying mindful awareness as a therapist and teaching mindfulness as a skill to clients presenting with depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, eating disorders and addiction issues for over 20 years.

Dr. Ribeiro began her yoga studies in 1997 and completed advanced yoga training in India at numerous yoga centers and ashrams including the Indian Yoga Institute, Prashanti Kuteeram in Bangalore, the Yoga Study Center in Rishikesh, the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India and at the Iyengar Yoga Center of New York in NYC. She has written on mindfulness for the Group Psychologist Newsletter and assisted with editing journal articles on yoga and ALS in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

Dr. Ribeiro has a private consulting practice, works as a psychologist and instructor at Oregon State University and is co-owner of the Iyengar Yoga Center of the Willamette Valley in Corvallis, OR. She has taught yoga, mindfulness practices, and biofeedback at various universities, schools, and conferences throughout the United States and abroad while working as a psychologist for Semester at Sea.