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Release Yoga: A Trauma-Informed Practice for Trauma, PTSD, and Anxiety

When life feels heavy, our bodies remember.

Stress, trauma, and anxiety don’t just live in the mind; they take root in the body. They often show up as tension, fatigue, disconnection, or shutdown. Our Release yoga class gently guides your body and mind back into connection, safety, and regulation.

What to Expect

Release is a trauma-informed yoga class blending gentle movement, trauma release exercises, and nervous system education. You’ll learn to listen to your body, move through stored tension, and reconnect with a sense of calm and safety at your own pace.

This practice is rooted in both yoga and neuroscience, helping you work with your body’s natural responses instead of against them.

Each session includes:

Grounding and Arrival

Learn to create a sense of safety on your mat through mindful setup, breathwork, and sensory grounding.

Nervous System Reset

Understand how your body responds to stress and practice techniques that support regulation and resilience.

Shutdown Sequence

A step-by-step process for reawakening the body from states of freeze, dissociation, or exhaustion.

Gentle Flow

Explore slow, intentional poses designed to help release physical tension and emotional weight.

Trauma Release Exercises

Each practice includes one trauma release exercise designed to help your body naturally discharge stored stress and tension. These gentle, controlled tremors or movements can support the release of energy held in the muscles and fascia, helping to calm the nervous system. TRE is a safe, body-led process often used in trauma recovery work and somatic healing approaches. 7,8

Reflection and Safety Tools

End each practice with journaling or reflection prompts to build your personal “safety toolkit.”

Savasana

Rest deeply to let your body absorb the calm you’ve cultivated.

The Research Behind Release

Trauma can dysregulate the nervous system, often keeping the body stuck in states of fight, flight, or freeze. Research shows that:

Mindful movement and breathwork can activate the parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) response, reducing cortisol and calming the body. 3,4
Interoceptive awareness (tuning into sensations inside the body) helps rebuild the brain-body connection often disrupted by trauma. 2,6
Trauma-informed yoga has been linked to improved emotional regulation, sleep quality, and decreased PTSD symptoms. 1,5
Trauma release exercises have been shown to lower physiological stress markers and support emotional resilience by helping the body complete stress cycles (Berceli, The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process, 2008). 7,8

Our Release yoga class integrates these findings into a supportive, choice-based environment where you are always in control of your experience.

Who This Practice Supports

This class may resonate with you if:

You live with anxiety, PTSD, or chronic stress
You often feel shut down, numb, or disconnected
You are seeking gentle movement that supports emotional healing
You want to learn how to regulate your nervous system through the body

All bodies, experiences, and abilities are welcome. No prior yoga experience is needed, only a willingness to listen to your body and move with compassion.

A Space to Release

Healing begins when the body feels safe enough to let go. In trauma recovery, this sense of safety allows the nervous system to shift from protection to restoration, from surviving to reconnecting.

Each gentle movement, each mindful breath, becomes a signal to your body: it’s safe to release. It’s safe to feel. It’s safe to be here now.

You don’t have to move through it alone.

Holding Space for Your Healing

RELEASE (for trauma, ptsd, and anxiety)
First & Third Weeks of Every Month
In Person & Zoom Options

SAVE YOUR SPOT

Sources:

van der Kolk, B. A., et al. (2014). Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Farb, N. A. S., et al. (2015). Interoception, Contemplative Practice, and Mental Health. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.
Pascoe, M. C., et al. (2017). Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation: Effects on Stress and Cortisol. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Streeter, C. C., et al. (2012). Effects of Yoga on the Autonomic Nervous System, Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, and Allostasis in PTSD. Medical Hypotheses.
Emerson, D., et al. (2017). Trauma-Sensitive Yoga as a Complementary Treatment for PTSD. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Kelly, U., et al. (2017). Mindfulness and Interoceptive Awareness in Trauma Recovery. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
Berceli, D. (2008). The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process: Transcend Your Toughest Times. Namaste Publishing.
Beattie, J. & Berceli, D. (2021). Global Case Study: The Effects of TRE on Perceived Stress, Flourishing, Chronic Pain, and Self-Efficacy. Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises Global.