The Neurobiology of Trauma + Yoga with Sarah Kadel
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
I'm so happy to have Sarah Kadel on the podcast today. Sarah is an Austin-based yoga teacher who is serving as a mentor teacher in Jason’s online advanced teacher training this year. I wanted to share her story with you because I think the world needs to hear her message about how yoga can be so helpful for those who have suffered with trauma in their lives.
Sarah shares:
* How yoga helped her understand and move past addiction
* What the newest body of research says about the neurobiology of trauma
* Helpful tips for yoga teachers who hope to make their classes trauma-informed or more friendly for students with all types of trauma
* What to look for (and what to avoid) when you are looking for a trauma-informed yoga teacher
Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode232
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 232 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.8 | Today my guest is Sarah Cadill. Sarah is a yoga teacher based in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:14.2 | and she is also one of the mentors who is mentoring Jason's students in the online 300-hour |
| 0:21.5 | teacher training modules this year. Sarah has been teaching since 2011 and she tells the story of |
| 0:27.4 | how she was dragged to her first yoga class by a friend when she was unconsciously grappling with |
| 0:34.0 | addiction. And so she was in a tough place in her life she found yoga and then she found a 200-hour |
| 0:40.4 | training that was trauma-informed. So since then she has learned a lot about trauma, she has |
| 0:46.5 | processed her own trauma and she leads trauma-informed yoga classes. So that's what we talk about |
| 0:52.4 | today. I found the conversation to be incredibly helpful. I have over the past several years |
| 0:58.9 | been reading some of the scientists studying trauma myself like Stephen Porges, Stephen Levine. |
| 1:06.0 | It was interesting for me to hear how Sarah ties together yoga asana and yoga philosophy |
| 1:12.3 | with this more modern research and neurobiology information that is really just coming to light. |
| 1:19.2 | She also offers some really helpful frameworks and tips for incorporating trauma-informed |
| 1:24.9 | approach into your own classes. So I think you will find this episode both informative and |
| 1:32.4 | inspiring. Sarah offers online classes as well and she's leading a 200-hour teacher training that's |
| 1:40.4 | there's both a hybrid option and an in-person option and I'm going to tut her own horn for her |
| 1:45.8 | because she didn't in the episode. So I will put the URL for her website in the show notes and you |
| 1:50.9 | can go find out more about Sarah and how you can study with her. And if you are interested in |
| 1:57.9 | Jason's online trainings this year there's still two modules that you could sign up for. He's |
| 2:02.8 | teaching module three at the end of May and module one is being repeated again this summer in August. |
| 2:11.4 | And then of course he will offer all three modules again next year. So you can go to our website |
| 2:15.7 | and learn more about that Jasonyoga.com. Enjoy the interview with Sarah. Well Sarah, |
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