Haelan House presents The Body: Healing Trauma from a Physical Perspective.
Trauma can, and often does, affect our physical health. In this presentation, our speakers will review how trauma affects the body and can result in disease, illness, and other forms of dysfunction.
In “The Body Keeps the Score,” Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. says, ” Somatic symptoms for which no clear physical basis can be found are ubiquitous in traumatized children and adults. They can include chronic back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, migraines, digestive problems, spastic colon, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and some forms of asthma. Traumatized children have fifty times the rate of asthma as their non-traumatized peers.”
Other studies such as the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study shows that children under the age of 18 who experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences are twice as likely to develop cancer, seven times more likely to become alcoholic or die twenty years earlier than those who have not experienced trauma.
Because trauma affects our physical health, it’s important to be able to be in touch with the body and its sensations to help relieve symptoms and heal. Our presenters will talk about how the modalities they use including energy work, yoga, and qi gong, can help heal and increase health and wellbeing through the body. Watch the replay below.
Our Presenters
Susan Hall
Susan uses her acute understanding of the body’s energy systems and their impact on health and wellness to assist individuals in recovering their vitality, wholeness, and integrated Self. When all of your energies are brought into harmony, your mind, body, and spirit flourish. Susan guides and empowers individuals to become their own best healer. Energy Medicine yoga, and Breathwork. www.SusanHallEnergy.com
Donna Chisholm, PT, PYT
A licensed physical therapist and registered yoga teacher with 30 years of clinical experience. I have a private practice in which I integrate my clinical knowledge of physical therapy with yoga principles. One of my many passions is applying these areas of training to those who have experienced trauma and health-related challenges. Some of the tools I incorporate are mindfulness/mediation practices, breathwork, improving body awareness through somatic practices, and brain training through nervous system regulation. www.PhysicalYogaTherapy.com
Joyce Burk Brown
West Meets East Western medicine trained rehab therapist also uses Eastern medicine (Energy Work – Qigong, Reiki, Heart Math/Forth Realm) to help individuals find calm and balance. Using meaningful activities, physical exercises, mindful movement, relaxation, and energy work in combination as needed to assist people to release trauma and heal body, mind, and spirit. www.BlueHeronRising.com
