Please find below resources that are linked to Trauma Recovery and are designed to help you, or your clients build a “toolkit” or inner resourse to help with grounding and nervous system regulation, so central to any recovery from trauma.
Kritan Kriya
Kirtan Kriya – Sung Meditation, using voice and fingers.
Please find an offering of an original version of Kirtan Kriya – a Kundalini Yoga Mediation. If this is practised for 11 minutes a day, a study at the Amen Clinic in America showed that it increased activity in the pre-frontal cortex and positively affected the part of the brain responsible for memory. This exercise can be found in Linda Curren’s 2013 Book “101 Trauma-Informed Interventions.”
The video will take you through the reason this is offered as a method for soothing the nervous system working with Trauma with your clients and then follows a 7 minute original regulation music video. There is a download of the full version of the music at the bottom of the page.
Kirtan Kriya (Sa Ta Na Ma) Audio File
A full 11-minute version, without the introduction is also available below.
6 Breathing Exercises for Trauma
Breathing in a way that helps us to soothe and calm the nervous system can be at the heart of any “Phase One, Safety and Stabilisation” phase in trauma therapy. I have put this video together for clients and therapists to help introduce some quite different techniques of breathing, as everyone holds their trauma differently and also finds different things soothing.
The video begins with an introduction talking through why breathing helps and then moves on to demonstrate the techniques, set to original music/video. Subsequent video will just showcase the music with gentle images so that you can practice the techniques in a slower-paced and more embodied way.
Momento Mori
This practice has been developed first and foremost as a means of calming the nervous system and increasing the connection between your somatic experience of yourself and your trauma.
It also has a purpose to hold in mind the fact that all things eventually find their place and pass away; that painful experience not only hardens and deepens us, it also can become useful.
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