Trauma-Informed Yoga for Healing
If you’ve experienced trauma, incorporating the pillars of yoga can help.
Outside of her work as a writer and social media manager for Yoga Journal, Monica Cadena is an Afro-Latinx California based artist, writer, yogi, movement worker, digital alchemist, and the co-founder of Black Healers Connect, a digital and in person community for healers of the diaspora. She’s the co-creator of the podcast Healing for the Culture, alongside Heather Archer, and is the former co-founder of Wear Your Voice Magazine, an intersectional feminist digital publication with recent investment by serial investor Mark Cuban. The social media and marketing director at Off the Mat Into the World, Monica’s passionate about highlighting stories from those at the intersections of healing and social justice activism. Connect with her on Instagram at sacred.alchemist.
If you’ve experienced trauma, incorporating the pillars of yoga can help.
Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness can supplement trauma treatments to help you find resilience and healing.
The next time you find yourself doom-scrolling, consider weaving some of these mindfulness practices into your daily routine.
Check out Monica Cadena's author page.
Check out Monica Cadena's author page.
Check out Monica Cadena's author page.
Check out Monica Cadena's author page.
Muscles in our face can hold tension like muscles anywhere else in your body. Relax and rejuvenate your face with these three exercises that release strain and calm the mind.
As fall arrives and COVID-19 numbers rise, wellness practitioners across the country are sharing their healing modalities to help us face our fear of death. We spoke with John Christian Phifer, a death doula, about how the novel coronavirus is changing our relationship with life.
Feeling sluggish in the mind and body? This short practice can help you “digest” both feelings and food.
Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena shares an inspiring morning practice with her spiritual teacher and life coach Dayana Mendoza.
Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena discusses why she runs and what she does to prepare for a training run.
Feeling nervous about meeting a stranger? Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena shares some great tips for calming your nerves and building your confidence before that Tinder face-to-face.
Sit with Monica Cadena, Yoga Journal’s 2020 Live Be Yoga ambassador, for this sacred practice, called 8:46: A Meditative Libation Honoring the Ancestors. This meditation is 8 minutes and 46 seconds long, representing the time George Floyd was restrained by Minneapolis police.
These talks, breath and movement practices, sound healings, and more can help you find moments of calm and community, as well as develop self-regulation tools so you can tend to your nervous system. Bookmark for future reference.
If you suffer from ADHD, or just a chronic wandering mind, these tips can help you prepare for a deeply nourishing practice.
Live Be Yoga Ambassador Monica Cadena shares her tips for preparing for meditation when you suffer from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
With classes offered on free platforms, including Zoom and Instagram Live, people are grappling with if and how to compensate teachers.
Now is the time to put your yoga into action—taking only what you need, helping those who are more vulnerable, and keeping up self-care so that you can contribute to collective health. Here, a few ideas to get you started.
How Georgia State University professor Dr. Stephanie Evans uncovered pictures of the iconic Civil Rights activist practicing asana.