We are excited to share that our founder @mollyboha is co-authoring a book, Healing Trauma with the Body, with @michaelstoneteaching and will be published by @shambhala_publications in 2018! Michael and Molly have collaborated over the last few years, exploring the questions, processes and complexities of how their own organisms have responded to trauma and the different paths and perspectives they’ve adopted to work gently, intentionally and patiently with the nonlinear and ever-evolving process of healing. They are eager to share another lens - among many - on practices and concepts that have fortified their journeys and informed their work with trauma survivors through the contemplative practices of yoga, meditation and mindfulness. We look forward to this book reaching sexual assault and trauma survivors with empowering information about how the body stores trauma and can simultaneously be one of our best tools for its transformation, normalizing the vast range of physiological responses to trauma, trusting one’s own healing path and embodied wisdom, identifying inner resources and strengths through trauma healing work and remembering survivors are not alone in this journey. How we go about surviving, finding hope after hope is lost, remembering in the midst of chaos that no feeling is final, how we recognize and harness the connection between our individual healing and that of the collective - this is our resilience, this is innate within all of us and this is something to celebrate, search for, savor and share about widely! This book endeavors, among many things, to demonstrate how all of us have the capacity to encompass the tenderness of our wounds alongside the pulsing movements of our healing, and how a somatic, body-inclusive lens on trauma healing can nurture that possibility. Stay tuned for more updates! | photo: David Guttenfelder @dguttenfelder | #trauma #sexualassault #embodiedhealing #embodiedjustice #holistichealing #healingisapractice #traumaresilience #meditation #yoga #mindfulness #mindbodysoul #healingtraumawiththebody #survivor
