{"id":2004,"date":"2015-06-01T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T12:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflexologyforthespirit.com\/blog\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2017-01-13T18:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:04:50","slug":"tara-sanders-healing-yoga-and-reflexology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflexologyforthespirit.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/tara-sanders-healing-yoga-and-reflexology\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Sanders: Healing, Yoga, and Reflexology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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healing, yoga, and reflexology<\/p><\/div>\n

As reflexologists, we add new clients to our practice often. Healing, yoga, and reflexology are important here. \u00a0 Depending on your personality, or \u00a0your practice, you may ask a few or many questions from them on the intake forms and in the initial interviews.<\/p>\n

Trauma is one area of a person’s life which we rarely approach. \u00a0It is just too hidden, too destructive.<\/p>\n

This is wise. \u00a0Trauma is a subject which our client partners need to bring up when the time is right for them to share. \u00a0Because nothing is said doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen. \u00a0It just means \u00a0that the person isn’t comfortable discussing it.<\/p>\n

Because, in reality, 1 woman in 4 has experienced domestic violence and\/or sexual assault. \u00a0Personally, I question the 1-in-4 statistic. \u00a0No woman reports domestic violence or sexual assault if she can possibly avoid it. \u00a0Reporting is simply too painful.<\/p>\n

When I first spoke with Tara Sanders,\u00a0\u00a0a Woodstock based yoga instructor and \u00a0 program director in the nonprofit Exhale to Inhale I was suddenly very alert. \u00a0 I realized that we, as reflexologists, need to be more sensitive to the secrets and hidden traumas of our client partners.<\/p>\n

Exhale to Inhale yoga works to empower survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault to heal through yoga. \u00a0Exhale to Inhale yoga guides women through postures, breathing, \u00a0meditation. \u00a0Taught in trauma sensitive style, practitioners are enabled to ground themselves in<\/p>\n

their bodies<\/p>\n

their strength<\/p>\n

their stillness.<\/p>\n

As this happens, the women connect to themselves. \u00a0They work toward \u00a0empowerment and worthiness. \u00a0This practice can be transformative for survivors \u00a0of sexual abuse and domestic violence when they shed the cloak of victimhood.<\/p>\n

Healers, reflexologists, \u00a0and body workers have long known that when a person is traumatized, the event is stored in the muscles.<\/p>\n

We also know that reflexology sessions are given a boost when combined with other modalities such as yoga, meditation, breathing, Reiki therapy, and massage.<\/p>\n

Tara teaches the classes without music. \u00a0She does not touch the students to correct a posture. \u00a0Lights remain on throughout the class. \u00a0These sessions offer survivors an opportunity to reclaim their lives through the healing and grounding of yoga.<\/p>\n

Tara uses the yoga classes to help her students feel safe, strong, \u00a0in the present moment. \u00a0As she teaches, she is a conduit for healing and healthful programs in our community. \u00a0Reflexology for the Spirit practitioners are also conduits for healing as we work the reflex points to encourage homeostasis.<\/p>\n

Exhale to Inhale is a New York-based nonprofit offering free weekly yoga \u00a0classes to survivors of domestic and sexual assault. \u00a0After June 20, Exhale to Inhale yoga classes will be taught free of charge to women in area shelters \u00a0in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n

Not everyone has a Tara Sanders available in the community. \u00a0However, it’s possible to suggest reflexology sessions offered in tandem with yoga, meditation, breathing classes. \u00a0Whether or not you are aware of your client partner’s experience with trauma or domestic violence is not important. \u00a0 What is important is that you invite your client partner to experience this boost \u00a0to your modality. \u00a0Think of healing, yoga, and reflexology as a package.<\/p>\n

Hopefully one day soon, there will be more Tara Sanders yoga teachers in communities everywhere.<\/p>\n

Exhale to Inhale<\/a><\/p>\n

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you for reading this blog\/book.<\/p>\n

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Jennette Nearhood provided the media.<\/p>\n

Thurman Greco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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