226: Neurogenic Yoga for Stress, Trauma & Tension Release
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 27 October 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Almost everyone who practices yoga has experienced and emotional release or even a breakthrough in class—it just happens. But what if there were a way to actively encourage that type of release with more predictability? What if there were a way to created a safe, simple, and controlled stress release response at the end of each class?
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet yoga trainer, Maria Alfaro, who integrates Trauma and Tension Releasing Exercises (TRE) with traditional yoga classes to create something called, Neurogenic Yoga. For yoga students looking for a new and unique way to release long-held tension, this is a remarkable practice that can be learned quickly and practiced nearly anywhere.
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Listen & Learn:
- How self-induced therapeutic tremors can cause massive breakthroughs in your practice and your life
- How trauma can get stored in the brain stem (not cortex)
- Why you could never by physically in pain during practice
- Why emotionally, you should always feel "in control"
- How tremors can access and sooth the brain stem
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Maria Alfaro is from Italy and lives Santa Cruz, California. She has over 26 years yoga experience in Iyengar, Ashtanga and Forrest Yoga and has been teaching since 1997. Maria was trained in TRE™ by its founder, Dr. David Berceli, in 2004 and she has been teaching his method ever since. She also has a background in martial arts, reiki, massage, and meditation.
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming up on the end of 2016 and this is the time of the year when people start to reflect back on the past year and set the stage for a new year and if you're like me and like most people you end up with really amazing New Year's resolutions and |
| 0:15.4 | then they kind of fizzle and fade by mid-February and come this time of the |
| 0:19.8 | year you're kind of scratching your head wondering what the heck just happened. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm not sure about you but I had a really crazy hectic year lots of amazing things |
| 0:27.6 | but it's kind of a roller coaster as well and I'm excited to move into the new year |
| 0:32.3 | with a lot more emotional stability, lifestyle stability. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm feeling healthier than I felt in many, many years. |
| 0:40.0 | So the reason I'm telling you this is because I'm hosting a retreat here in Barcelona between |
| 0:43.8 | New Year, between Christmas and New Year's is called the best year ever. |
| 0:47.4 | And we're bringing people from about 12 different countries, about 30 people, and we're going |
| 0:51.6 | to spend a week together. And we're going to practice a week together and we're going to practice yoga |
| 0:54.0 | from early in the morning to late the evening we're going to work on breathing exercises |
| 0:57.5 | nervous system balance nutrition focus on practical tools things that you can apply to your life. |
| 1:03.0 | And perhaps even more interesting is we're going to work on three specific buckets in terms of personal growth and development, health, wealth, and relationships. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm not here to give you declarative advice or anything definitive, |
| 1:15.0 | but what I am here to do is to facilitate a process |
| 1:19.0 | for you to discover what's most important to you |
| 1:22.0 | and more importantly, lay out a blueprint for |
| 1:24.0 | how that's going to happen in the year to come. I have an amazing year planned and I |
| 1:28.9 | still have a lot of details to flesh out and I'm excited to help you flesh these out as well. We have this new framework, this new journal |
| 1:36.0 | that we're using as a structure and we have a really amazing setting here in |
| 1:39.6 | Barcelona which is an amazing time of the year to be here. It's going to be a full on week so |
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