Quotes

“Ultimately healing trauma is about learning viscerally, something that is completely shrouded from awareness when one is in trauma's thrall. Things end, and once we know in our body that things end, then the next part of our life can begin. And so, as we start to feel ourselves more embedded in a relationship with rhythm, then we start to feel that we can move freely into that space of rhythmic relationship with ourselves, with others and with life, and ultimately that is really what the trauma sensitive yoga is in service of.” - David Emerson

“Rhythm is an important part of good trauma treatment in general but is a core element of trauma sensitive yoga. By being attuned to our rhythmical interactions we get to practise finding ways of moving and breathing that are authentically comfortable. By attending to aspects of rhythm we get to have experiences where one person does not impose his or her will on the other but rather by being committed to the interceptive process actually validates the authenticity of the others felt experience.” – David Emerson

“Between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies your capacity to choose your response, and in your response lies your growth and your freedom”. - Viktor Frankl 

“Trauma creates changes you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.” - Michelle Rosenthal

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius 

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." – Ernest Hemingway

“We live in time when a science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience and survival.” – Joan Halifax 

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

“Having compassion for yourself means that you honour and accept your humanness.” — Kristin Neff

“Befriending is learning to tune in and turn towards autonomic state and story with curiosity and self-compassion.”  - Deb Dana

“Embodied self-awareness is the ability to pay attention to ourselves, to feel our sensations and emotions, and movements online, in the present moment, without the mediating influence of judgmental thoughts.” - Manuela Mischke Reeds

“Embodiment is feeling oneself directly without the constant narration or interpretation of our thinking mind.” - Manuela Mischke Reeds

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