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Concept · Trauma-informed practice (clinical and contemplative) · Late 20th to 21st century
Trauma-sensitive practice
Also known as trauma informed practice · trauma sensitive yoga · practice after trauma · why the body scan feels unsafe · PTSD and meditation · practising with a history of trauma · grounding when meditation makes it worse
A model, framework or clinical approach that has been studied. Presented as a model, with what the research behind it actually found.
What changes when someone with a history of trauma practises: choice, going slowly, keeping the eyes open and keeping attention anchored in the present are the adjustments teachers make, and body-focused practices are the ones most often adapted. Trauma-informed yoga has been studied in randomised trials; the wider claim that any single practice resolves trauma has not been established.
Entries in this library keep the tradition label and the editorial state the source gave them. A record marked as awaiting scholarly review is offered as a lead to study, not as settled teaching.