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Why is interoception (feeling your body) such an important aspect of trauma healing?
If you’re not aware of what you need, it becomes hard to care for yourself.
If you don’t feel thirsty you won’t replenish yourself.
If you can’t feel when you’re full you’ll keep eating.
That is why building interoceptive capacity can be a useful, almost essential aspect of trauma healing and recovery.
How Shame Shows Up in The Body
Experiences of shame live in the body as body sensations and can be re-activated if they remain unprocessed. No amount of talking about shame in therapy can touch the core of shame. It’s an experience that is felt.
If shame is a disconnection from the sense of self, a judgement or hatred towards the self, yoga is a reconnection, a restoration and a love towards the self.
Why Trauma Sensitive Yoga?
Safety is the first pre-requisite in order to be willing enough to explore ones inner world and body sensations. Safety can be disrupted, sometimes subtly, when there is any sense of threat, power or coercion. When safety is disrupted, our stress system turns on and we are naturally looking outwards instead of inwards. We are unlikely to derive the complete benefits of yoga, which is to meet the body where it is in the present moment.