Grounding short – Trauma yoga

Given the potent nature of yoga, yoga classes do not need to be long to create great benefits. Follow this sequence, or feel free to add extra poses that you feel will further benefit you. Grounding means both sensing the body's contact with the ground and actively bringing the mind to the body as a mode to reduce stress, rumination, and fear.

For part 1, a longer grounding class, please see Grounding – Trauma Yoga. For part 3, please see Grounding skills – Trauma Yoga.

Learn more and take part of all lectures and classes with Heather in the Trauma informed yoga program.

About the instructor

Josefin Wikström

Josefin Wikström has been bringing yoga and dance into the Swedish prisons since 2008. Josefin is responsible for developing the Prison Yoga Programs for Yogobe, she has been working as a full-time teacher focusing on yoga for trauma-exposed populations since 2003.

Heather Mason

Heather Mason is the founder of The Minded Institute (in 2009), a leading yoga therapy training organization known for its focus on mental health and empowering yoga and health professionals to integrate yoga therapy into healthcare.