Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Deck for Kids: For Therapists, Caregivers, and Yoga Teachers

By David Emerson, Brooklyn Alvarez, Kirsten Voris

50 trauma-informed, color-coded cards--yoga poses, mindful movement exercises, and age-appropriate practices to help kids nurture embodiment, process complex trauma, and feel safer in their bodies

A comprehensive, empowering, developmentally appropriate, and easy-to-use deck that's grounded in attachment theory, neuroscience, and trauma theory

The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Deck for Kids centers that healing from traumatic experiences happens not just in the mind, but in the body--and offers tools and movement exercises to help children sense their bodies and experience safety within them.

The deck's practices focus on present-moment awareness, rhythmic movement, choice-making, and safe, effective touch. Across the deck and the accompanying booklet, the authors underscore empowering children to be the experts on their own bodies through invitational language, non-coercion, and authentic shared experience. Designed for therapists, social workers, parents, and other care facilitators, The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Deck for Kids supports:

Practical application With 50 color-coded cards; adaptable exercises; movement practices that can be used individually or within groups; and a focus on four paths to embodimentUnderstanding trauma-informed foundations Explores the distinctions among PTSD, C-PTSD, and developmental traumaImagination, sensory awareness, and empowered choice Name-free, writing-free, and gender- and demographically neutral, the cards are designed for all kids to see themselves in the movement exercises.Agency, creativity, and empowerment Core practice principles include non-coercion; non-abandonment; and avoidance of physical adjustments, praise, or judgment--there's no "right" way to do any of the movements.
In addition to poses and movement invitations, the deck and booklet also include a range of games and somatic play activities suitable for individual and group settings.

• Format: Misc.
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623173280
• ISBN13: 9781623173289
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.7" x 6.7"