Canberra Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapy

29/12/2025

A BODY - FIRST APPROACH FOR ANXIOUS CHILDREN

When children live with high anxiety, it often reflects how much they’re having to navigate in a very complex world.

Trauma-sensitive yoga therapy is gentle, natural, body-first support that helps nervous systems settle, so children can feel more at home in themselves as they learn how to meet life and stay present within it.

This work isn’t about fixing or changing children — it’s about offering safety, skills, and support as they grow into the world they’re living in.

✨ Private 1:1 sessions available in Kingston or online Australia wide.
Health funds provider for bodywork.

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15/12/2025

Discover the incredible benefits of TRE Trauma Release for somatic healing! 🌿 This approach not only supports trauma recovery, but also integrates the dance of expansion and containment.

Are you ready to embrace healing?

Learn more about this transformative practice at https://wix.to/8ENQXZs

How TRE Trauma Release Supports Trauma-Informed Somatic HealingIf you’ve tried to heal through your mind but still feel stuck in your body, you’re not alone. Somatic practices like TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) offer another way in — one that begins with the body’s own language of...

04/12/2025

Body-Led Permission for BPD: A New Way to Meet Your Inner World

Many people who live with a BPD diagnosis or long-term trauma share a similar experience:

Your mind understands so much —
and yet your body still tightens, reacts, or becomes overwhelmed.

This isn’t a flaw.
It’s your nervous system doing what it learned to do in order to protect you.

Over the years, I’ve watched something powerful happen in my work with clients:

When your relationship with your body begins to shift, your relationship with your mind shifts too.
Not through force or control — but through permission.

Permission to notice.
Permission to move at your own pace.
Permission to feel without being swallowed by the feeling.

This is why I offer Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) — a gentle, choice-led, body-first approach that supports emotional steadiness, grounding, and self-understanding in a way talking alone often can’t reach.

If you live with emotional intensity, sensitivity, or attention that comes in waves, this work can offer a different kind of support… one that begins in the body rather than the mind.

8-Week Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Program

A steady, predictable space where your body can explore regulation and connection safely.

Suitable for:
• People with BPD diagnoses
• ADHD traits
• PTSD and Complex Trauma
• Trauma histories
• Sensitive or fast-moving nervous systems

This program includes:
• Weekly group or private sessions
• Choice-led movement
• Trauma-informed rest practices
• Interoceptive awareness
• A steady, supportive environment to return to each week

If you feel drawn to exploring a body-led pathway to steadiness and self-connection, you’re welcome to join the next 8-Week TCTSY Program.

Learn more or register here:
📎 www.kendrahealingarts.com

Or send me a message if you’d like to talk about whether this could be supportive for you.

https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/trauma-sensitive-yoga-for-bpd-trauma-adhd-an-8-week-tctsy-journey

Discover how an 8-week Trauma-Sensitive Yoga program can support emotional steadiness, self-connection, and nervous-system safety for people living with BPD, trauma, or ADHD traits.

30/10/2025

SAFE YOGA SPACE

What do you look for in the space when attending a yoga group practice.
What stops you from attending some spaces and why?

Does incense bother you?
Not being able to move your mat?
Lotsa lycra?

30/10/2025

12/10/2025

SUBTLE YOGA CAN HAVE POTENCY.

Apart from the huge list of therapeutic benefits from slow, subtle yoga, such as nervous system regulation, better digestion, reduced depression, improved breathing, and sexual self-actualization, subtle yoga can offer a deeper dive into the somatic richness of Self (capital S), a valuable part of healing trauma / glaciers.

Feedback from my TCTSY group course weekly practice shared insights today on how we don’t have to be doing more to receive more — and by doing less, slowing down, choosing to be really present in our bodies, fertile ground for interoception to flourish and healing trauma to naturally occur.

They can choose whether being still or moving is serving with this relationship of embodiment.
Whilst TCTSY offers choices in pace and performance, most participants end up slowing down, not speeding up, to connect with their individual flow of prana that serves them best.

Perhaps the choice-making is the key to self-awareness — quite often not offered in mainstream fast-fitness, highly-cued yoga practices.

So ~

Are you tired of the one-size-fits-all approach to yoga?

Are you looking for a better mind-body connection?

Are you looking for a safe space that’s less about being pushed into yoga asanas and more about your body and mind’s needs?

Are you healing trauma and pursuing post-growth awakening?

Are you seeking more mental health–aware yoga?

Book a self-care package, or join a TCTSY course, and we’ll use trauma-sensitive yoga therapy to guide us into an embodied Self-practice.

23/08/2025

Have you ever noticed your body start to shake?

Maybe during a yoga class, after a Pilates session, following childbirth, or in the middle of a panic attack. These moments can feel unsettling — even frightening — but they are not signs of weakness. They are your body’s natural healing mechanisms at work.

In this blog, I explore how spontaneous shaking — from yogic kriyas to TRE tremors — reflects the wisdom of prāṇa, and how learning to work with these movements can support safety, regulation, and belonging. If this resonates with you, stay with me — and consider joining a Foundational TRE Course, now enrolling, where you can explore these practices in a safe, guided way.

https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/sacred-somatics-kriya-soma-yoga-therapy

Discover sacred somatics — the balance of kundalini kriya (fire) and soma (moon nectar). Learn how yoga therapy and TRE frame shaking as prana’s intelligence, supporting containment, safety, and embodied belonging.

04/08/2025

Yoga is no longer being treated as something supplementary.
It’s being recognised for what it truly is: essential.

Attitudes are changing: a new global report reveals that yoga is a powerful path to wellbeing and therapeutic care not just exercise. This is something that we at the Minded Institute have witnessed for years: a major global shift in how yoga is understood - and used.

Yoga is no longer seen as just a series of postures. It’s increasingly recognised as a comprehensive wellbeing practice, one that includes breathing techniques, meditation, and lifestyle integration, with tangible benefits for both mental and physical health.

People are turning to yoga not for performance, but for support:
🧠 to manage anxiety and burnout
🫁 to regulate the nervous system
💓 to prevent and ease conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and chronic stress
🧘‍♀ and to cultivate clarity, presence, and emotional resilience.

📈 The EMR report projects sustained global growth through 2034, fuelled by rising demand for preventative, integrative approaches to health.

With growing recognition of yoga’s full therapeutic scope, this is a pivotal moment for yoga therapy—unleashing long-awaited momentum.

This is a landmark moment for yoga therapy, a field The Minded Institute has helped shape by combining traditional yogic knowledge with scientific rigour to support mental health, chronic conditions, and whole-person care.

Yoga is no longer being treated as something supplementary.
It’s being recognised for what it truly is: essential.

03/08/2025

If you’ve tried to heal through your mind but still feel stuck in your body, you’re not alone. Somatic practices like TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) offer another way in — one that begins with the body’s own language of sensation, safety, and release.

How TRE Trauma Release Supports Trauma-Informed Somatic HealingIf you’ve tried to heal through your mind but still feel stuck in your body, you’re not alone. Somatic practices like TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) offer another way in — one that begins with the body’s own language of...

31/07/2025

Your Gut Knows First: The Sixth Sense Your Body Already Knows (And How Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Helps You Reclaim It)

You know that moment your chest tightens before your mind registers something is wrong?

That’s not just intuition. It’s interoception — your body’s built-in sixth sense. And it may be the most overlooked key to physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
Ready to begin gently noticing, feeling, and choosing from within?

I'd love to have you join our trauma sensititve healing community.

Explore the 8-week TCTSY series here. https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/traumasensitiveyoga





https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/interoception-trauma-sensitive-somatic-healing

Discover how interoception—the sixth sense—helps you reconnect with your body’s somatic wisdom. Learn how Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) gently restores interoceptive awareness after trauma, anxiety, or overwhelm.

21/07/2025

10/07/2025

Last chance to enrol
Starts July 25!

A SAFELY CONTAINED YOGA THERAPY SPACE TO EMBODY WAYS OF BEING AND BEFRIEND YOUR BODY TO HEAL TEAUMA

TCTSY (Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga) is an empirically validated, clinical intervention for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

TCTSY has foundations in trauma theory, attachment theory, neuroscience, and hatha yoga, with an emphasis on body-based yoga forms and breathing practices. TCTSY is open to all people regardless of age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, body type, and physical ability.
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Though trauma treatments have historically focused on the mind, it is now widely accepted in the trauma literature that incorporating the body into trauma work is significantly beneficial (Ogden, Van der Kolk, Levine, Rothschild, Emerson, Haines).
HOW DOES TCTSY DIFFER FROM OTHER CLASSES?
- Priority is given to creating a safe and comfortable space

We understand that without feeling safe, there is no space for change and the potential for retriggering.