How Yoga Works in Trauma Recovery: The Scientific Foundations

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Dr. Julie Staples (Guru Parkash Kaur)

Julie K. Staples, Ph.D. (Guru Parkash Kaur) is the Research Director at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher. She has conducted research in mind-body medicine for traumatized populations worldwide for over 20 years. She has led studies in Kosovo, Gaza, Israel, Haiti, Yemen and Jordan with traumatized civilian adults, teenagers, and children. She has also conducted research with the military population at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System.
Dr. Staples is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She is also a faculty member of the International Kundalini Yoga Therapy Professional Training program. She teaches online courses for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and health professionals around the world on the science of yoga.
She is the author of the yoga chapter in the medical school textbook Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Her self-help book Reclaiming Life after Trauma teaches Kundalini yoga and cognitive behavioral therapy tools to heal trauma symptoms. She currently runs Integrative Trauma Recovery Program workshops and intensive retreats.

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Dr. Julie Staples (Guru Parkash Kaur) presents scientific research showing how yoga works to heal trauma symptoms.

Trauma affects the entire body taking a toll on the immune system, the endocrine system, and the nervous system. Kundalini Yoga, alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been shown to impact the root causes of trauma and the complex symptoms.

Dr. Staples, author of Reclaiming Life After Trauma, discusses the latest research studies using yoga, including Kundalini Yoga, and meditations for posttraumatic stress.

Yoga and meditation have direct impact on the body and brain that can counteract these changes.

Dr. Staples will describe the parts of the brain affected by trauma and present neuroimaging studies demonstrating how meditation can bring the brain back to a normal state. She will explain the concept of allostatic load and the stress response and how yoga can reduce allostatic load. Posttraumatic stress can also accelerate cellular aging and research will be presented on how yoga may help slow this process. Inflammation, the underlying cause of many disease states, is increased as a result of posttraumatic stress. Research will be shown demonstrating how yoga can reduce this inflammation. She will also present research on Shabad Kriya for sleep given that a primary trauma symptom is difficulty sleeping.

If you are a yoga teacher, this course will help you understand the emerging field of yoga therapy and how with further study, yoga & meditation play a key role in health care and support for trauma & health recovery. Understand the research and experience meditations that have been studied and help with trauma.

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1 hour video with Dr. Julie Staples

General concepts this course will cover:

Practice Kundalini meditations that have been proven to help with health and trauma recovery
Understand how yoga works in trauma recovery and how it supports health recovery.
Get support with a primary symptom of trauma: sleep!
As a yoga teacher, you play a key role in public health; understand the research!

Julie K. Staples

Dr. Staples is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She is also a faculty member of the International Kundalini Yoga Therapy Professional Training program. She teaches online courses for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and health professionals around the world on the science of yoga.

She is the author of the yoga chapter in the medical school textbook Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Her self-help book Reclaiming Life after Trauma teaches Kundalini yoga and cognitive behavioral therapy tools to heal trauma symptoms. She currently runs Integrative Trauma Recovery Program workshops and intensive retreats.

Connect with Sr. Julie Staples: https://awarenesstechnologies.net/