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Trauma Informed: Inclusive Teaching for ALL Students
Lisa GreenbaumC-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP Official Music Sponsor
TRIUNE BRAIN • Most important job of our brain is to ensure our survival.
• The brain stem and the hypothalamus or the reptilian braincontrol functions of survival and homeostasis; breathing eating, sleeping, urination, defecation etc.
• The Limbic Brain or Mammalian Brain: The seat of emotions, monitor of danger, pleasure and pain and helps us navigate socially.
• Limbic + Reptilian = Emotional Brain and is the heart of the CNS
• The Neocortex: 30% of brain; concerned mostly with outside world and how we can get things done.
Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory: the metaphor for safety
Environment + Perceived Threat(outside/inside the body)
SAFETY- Optimally balanced nervous
system- Parasympathetic Nervous
System (Ventral Vagal) - Rest/Digest- Socially Engaged- Pre-Frontal Cortex
DANGER- Sympathetic Nervous
System- Fight or Flight- Limbic Brain- Dissociated: Rage or Panic
What this looks like: leave during class, agitated movements, loud
sighs
LIFE THREAT- Parasympathetic Nervous
System (Dorsal Vagal) - Freeze- Primitive Brain- Dissociated: Collapse
What this looks like: no eye contact, “going through
motions” maybe child’s pose
Teaching a Trauma-Sensitive Class
• Room set-up: doors, windows, outside noises
• Props: use blankets + blocks, avoid straps
• Adjustments: limited or avoid
• Poses focused on grounding
• Provide Options: student in control
• Vagal Toning: ujjayi breathing
• Language: positive + inclusive
YogaFit’s Transformational Language• Inclusive: we, let’s, our
• Positive Affirmative
• Action Oriented: “ing” verbs
• Awareness Oriented: Listening to our body
• Process Oriented: Just for Today
always remember to bring our cues back to the body and the breath
YogaFit: 100hour Warrior Certificate Program
- YogaFit Level 1- YogaFit for Warriors - Healing Physical + Emotional Trauma- Restoring Balance: Training the Parasympathetic Nervous
System
Choose from: - Warrior Kids, Addiction & Recovery or Balancing Moods
Sources + Further ReadingsEmerson, David + Hopper, Elizabeth 2011 Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming your Body Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books
Khalsa, Dharma Singh + Stauth, Cameron 2001 Meditation as Medicine New York, NY: First Fireside Edition, Simon and Schuster
Koch, Liz 2012 Core Awareness Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books
LeVine, Peter 2010 In an Unspoken Voice Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books
Van Der Kolk, Bessel MD 2014 The Body Keeps the Score New York, NY: Viking Press
Weintraub, Amy 2012 Yoga Skills for Therapists New York, NY: W.W.Norton