Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion [Paperback]

Trauma-informed yoga guidance for survivors, instructors, and mental health professionals. This is the voice, these are the words, the trauma field has been waiting to hear. Yamasakis steady, compassionate, and authentic voice offers a comprehensive guidebook for how to navigate the path to trauma healing for survivor and helper alike. The type of text we come to when we want to help others heal, but by the time we are through, we ourselves have been transformed. Zabie Yamasaki has written an incredible book that does so many things at the same time, and all of them marvelously. Teaching and practicing trauma-informed care is no easy thingand shes managed to gracefully synthesize a book about yoga, trauma, trauma-informed teaching, trauma survivors, and a yoga toolkit all into one. A must-have for anyone teaching, practicingor seekingtrauma-informed yoga today. Yamasaki covers entirely new ground and makes a generative contribution to the field of trauma-informed somatics. This powerful book integrates science, psychology, and skillful self-disclosure with practical tools for healing and teaching. With an anti-oppression framework and intersectional lens, this book offers a rare perspective on embodied survivorship. A must-read for anyone engaged in the process of recovering from sexual trauma or helping others to heal. As a survivor, psychologist, and beneficiary of Zabie Yamasakis online training program, I am excited to recommend this powerful book on embodied healing through yoga for sexual assault survivors. With clarity, compassion, and generosity of spirit, Yamasaki provides clear and practical strategies to facilitate healing and empowerment to aid survivors as they seek to reclaim their bodies and their full selves. Zabie Yamasaki has managed to write a book that is a salve of wisdom, compassion, and perspective for survivors and an invaluable resource for those supporting survivors to find their way back to their bodies again. It is a comprehensilC-