Sensory-Enhanced Yoga(r) for Self-Regulation and Trauma Healing

Lynn is the Founding President of the Sensory-Enhanced Yoga (R) Institute. Sensory-Enhanced Yoga (R) evolved from her role as the Associate Investigator and co-author of the highly successful Iraq yoga study, "Effects of Sensory-Enhanced Yoga on Symptoms of Combat Stress in Deployed Military Personnel" (Stoller et al, Jan/Feb 2012 AJOT). Lynn has trained yoga instructors and health professionals in sensory-based yoga techniques for combat stress and PTSD since 2008, and was a leading faculty member of two pioneering veteran/ military yoga organizations (Yoga Warriors 2008-2011; Warriors at Ease 2011-2016). Lynn is also an occupational therapist at Cotting School in Lexington, MA and teaches therapeutic yoga classes for veterans in the Boston area.

Chapter 1 Introduction PART 1 Stress, trauma, and the neuroplastic brain Chapter 2 PTSD and sensory processing Chapter 3 Neurophysiology of PTSD Chapter 4 Brain changes in PTSD and mind-body practices: the inverse relationship PART 2 The many faces of trauma Chapter 5 Combat stress management Patricia Lillis The Iraq Yoga Study Lynn Stoller Chapter 6 Reclaiming body, redefining relationship: yoga with survivors of sexual trauma Danielle Rousseau and Amanda J G Napior Chapter 7 Recovery and empowerment through yoga in prison Amanda J G Napior and Danielle Rousseau Chapter 8 Using mind-body practices among populations of mass disaster and conflict Gretchen Ki Steidle Chapter 9 Yoga for complex trauma survivors Alison Rhodes PART 3 East meets West: the theory and guidelines of Sensory-Enhanced Yoga (R) Chapter 10 Sensory-Enhanced Yoga (R): healing trauma through the koshas Chapter 11 Guideline 1 A sense of safety is essential for healing Chapter 12 Guideline 2 The most direct and powerful way to self-regulate is through control of the breath Chapter 13 Guideline 3 Yoga can promote effective sensory, motor, and cognitive processing of traumatic experiences and thus aid healing Chapter 14 Guideline 4 New beliefs and attitudes more easily take hold when we first prepare the body to receive and accept them Chapter 15 Guideline 5 Self-empowerment is born on the wings of the spirit rising from the mind-body connection PART 4 Putting the practice together Chapter 16 Structuring the practice Chapter 17 Description of therapeutic yoga forms Chapter 18 Sensory-Enhanced Yoga (R) vinyasas Appendices References Index