Joanne Spence - "Trauma-Informed Care, Straightforward Faith"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Joanne Spence, author of Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists and founder of Yoga in Schools, talks with J about the origins of trauma-informed care and the relationship between yoga and faith. They discuss coming to yoga through life challenges, exploring different approaches, breath focus, early paths into yoga therapy, working at a psychiatric hospital, trusting in lived experience, scientific explanations, attending seminary, being part of a church, secular approaches, and keeping communications straightforward and kind.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we are. |
| 0:13.2 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:18.1 | If this happens to be your first time listening today, let me welcome you. |
| 0:23.0 | Everyone else, what's up? How are you doing? Are you feeling okay? My bet is the answer to that |
| 0:34.5 | question hinges some on how much you've been paying attention to the news or not. |
| 0:40.1 | Because if you have been paying a lot of attention to the news, then there's very little reason why we would be feeling great. |
| 0:48.7 | I don't know about anybody else, but it certainly seems like the intensity level has been ratcheted up. |
| 0:56.1 | Like the amount of confusion and uncertainty and seeming injustice and evil. |
| 1:06.6 | It just seems like this week, the volume on that got turned up some. |
| 1:13.6 | Did you notice that? |
| 1:15.8 | Now, if you're not paying too much attention to it and you're having time to just be with the immediate experience of this wondrous existence that you're having, |
| 1:29.9 | then you're probably feeling just fine. |
| 1:34.0 | But you can feel the difference between when you're being with, you know, |
| 1:40.3 | the beauty and the awe and the joy and God. |
| 1:44.4 | And then when you look at your screens, |
| 1:46.3 | like just feel the difference of that in comparison. |
| 1:50.3 | It certainly seems to me like the reporting that we're getting |
| 1:54.0 | about what's happening in the world |
| 1:55.8 | is not about informing us so much as it is inflaming us. |
| 2:03.8 | Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting we should be putting our heads in the sand and not |
| 2:09.5 | paying attention at all. And it's fine if yoga teachers want to be political. It's been a while since I've seen that, |
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