The Moving to End Sexual Assault program is offering trauma-informed yoga classes, providing a safe environment for trauma victims to connect with their minds and bodies, at their Lafayette offices.
The instructor is gentle in his or her directions to the participants, and the yoga poses are not as physically demanding as in some yoga programs. Sexual assault counselor and educator Wendy Gaunt is ...
Co-authored by Nikita Baxi and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. The prevalence of military sexual trauma among female veterans is staggering. In Canada, 44.6 percent of female veterans reported experiencing ...
This is a follow-up post to last month’s, Yoga as a Stress-Reducer for Corrections Professionals, with licensed clinical social worker Sue Radcliffe. With a suicide rate twice that of the general ...
Previous studies in correctional facilities have shown positive effects of yoga on inmates. They experience increased impulse control and improved mental health. Are the same positive results seen in ...
DULUTH — Kyle Heyesen sat before a packed room of more than 30 seated, socked and barefooted people. Their foam blocks, blankets and water bottles were sprinkled throughout Svälja Yoga’ s upper-level ...