Breathwork and Trauma | Domesticate Calm Yoga
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Breathwork is gaining reputation as a option to bio-hack our nervous system. However, not all breathwork is appropriate for individuals with trauma. What's trauma? Trauma is any occasion that overwhelmed our nervous system and our capability to manage. What distinguishes trauma from stress is that once we’re confronted with a tense state of affairs, we go into combat or flight mode of our nervous system, and we're capable of combat and defend ourselves or run, retreat and withdraw from the stressor. As soon as we’ve escaped the stress, our physique and nervous system return to steadiness. However in trauma, we are able to’t combat or flee. Once we are overwhelmed by the state of affairs, we freeze, and the survival vitality of the nervous system stays caught in our physique, leaving us feeling hyper-vigilant and unable to chill out. This survival vitality can stay caught in our system for years. Trauma isn’t what occurred to us; it’s...