Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Yoga is one of the best tools for reducing stress. Once stress is reduced, the body can heal much better and faster. This is why yoga is so beneficial and healing on many levels.
Yoga & PTSD Study
With this study we hope to help many individuals with PTSD while documenting yoga's effects along the way.
Participants in the study will learn simple, effective ways to reduce stress through gentle breathing and movement exercises, along with guided relaxation.
Each week consists of a group class preceded by the completion of a survey to monitor yoga's effects on the participant's stress.
This study is for all levels of students especially those who have never done yoga and may have reservations about their ability to do yoga.
This study is being conducted in several locations nationally (see below)
Each location will have a main contact persons as the yoga teacher and JJ Gormley-Etchells as the yoga therapist overseeing the study.
JJ has been a Yoga Therapist since 1994 and a yoga teacher for over 20 years.
The Locations:
• Sheridan, WY: Santosha Yoga Studio, Contact teacher: Dawn Sopron. Next study begins January 2012.
• Ft Walton Beach, FL: Dragonfly Yoga Studies, Contact teacher: jj or Andrea Hartsog: andrea_hartsog@yahoo.com or call 850-226-7502. This eight-week study begins Feb 21 and meets 7:00 - 8:00pm
Please email JJ for further information and to be put in contact with the study nearest you.
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