Episode 30: What Feels Safe

“When you go through something really big, like a grief experience, there are so many ways you can either be stuck in that, or be totally disconnected because there’s so much happening. I love the yoga practice because it really encourages us to approach our bodies with capacity building and care. The practice is intended to help us find an internal gaze awareness that we eventually bring out into how we live in the world, and yoga guides us to do this in a very mindful way."

Emma Stern

This episode is part of a Breathing Wind miniseries titled Transforming Grief, hosted by Wendy Rolón, end of life doula, bereavement counselor and workshop facilitator. The Transforming Grief miniseries explores what we can do as humans to embrace grief as a tool for growth. 

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How might we learn to find safety again after loss? In this episode, Wendy Rolón from Season One (ep 15) and Emma Stern, AMFT, trauma-informed yoga teacher and counselor with a focus on somatics, talk about trauma-informed yoga, self-soothing, and community.

Emma and Wendy talk about:

• How certain yoga poses and vinyasa can help with acute grief and getting “unstuck” from grief’s numbness

• Cultivating self-soothing through the practice of yoga

• Community’s role in healing practices, such as yoga

Related resources:

• Emma’s Website

• Emma’s instagram

• Transforming Grief Workshops

• Parasympathetic Nervous System and Trauma

• Research on Interoceptive Awareness Training

• Wikipedia article on Interoception

• Consciousness in Motion: Vinyasa

• Teaching Yoga from a Trauma-Informed Lens

• 8 Yoga Poses to Help Heal Trauma

• Camel Pose

• Polyvagal Theory and How It Relates to Social Cues

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