"Bessel van der Kolk, a leading trauma researcher, has often described how a traumatic experience essentially “booby-traps” the body’s self-protective capacity through forced immobilization and helplessness and how it is re-enacted through invasive and intolerable bodily sensations and somatic responses long after the experience has ended.
"Neuroscience is now supporting what yogis have known for centuries: our sense of self is rooted in how we interpret our inner sensory experience. Given that, if trauma transforms the external violence into an internal enemy that then contributes to an inability to feel safe inside and causes negative beliefs about the self and one’s capacity for tolerating the present, the healing treatment must include opportunities for reparative connections with the body.
"A fundamental premise in yoga is to reduce suffering...."
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