Canberra Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapy

17/02/2026

What if the reason some of your clients/friends still feel disconnected — despite insight, language, and therapeutic alliance — is not resistance, but physiology?

Trauma doesn’t just shape narrative. It shapes interoception. It lives in breath patterns, muscle tone, gut sensation, orientation to space.

Many of the women I work with can explain their trauma beautifully — yet still feel numb, flooded, or far away from their bodies. Insight is present. Embodiment is not.

Across mental health settings, there is growing recognition that cognitive understanding alone does not always translate into felt safety. What’s often missing is a structured, evidence-based, body-first adjunct that supports agency without overwhelming the nervous system.

This is where Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) offers something quietly powerful.

TCTSY is not a yoga class.

It’s a research-supported clinical model developed at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, integrating trauma theory, attachment science, neuroscience, and hatha yoga. The focus is not flexibility — it is choice.

Not catharsis — but restoring a client’s felt sense of authorship in the present moment.

In my 8-week TCTSY offerings (group or private), we work gently with interoception — rebuilding the capacity to notice, to orient, to choose. Over time, participants often describe feeling more settled, more coherent, and more able to bring therapeutic insight into lived experience.

If you support people navigating complex trauma, PTSD, chronic anxiety, or dissociation — and sense that a trauma-aware somatic complement could deepen the work — I’d welcome a conversation about collaboration or referral.

Because trauma doesn’t happen in a vacuum — it happens in bodies, in relationships, and in systems.

And healing can, too.

https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/trauma-sensitive-yoga-somatic-interoception

Have you ever tried to think your way through anxiety or grief — and felt stuck? Interoception is your body’s internal sensing system. When stress or trauma dampens this somatic awareness, we can feel disconnected from ourselves. This blog explores how Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) helps rebuild...

16/02/2026

Why you might feel worse before you feel better? After 35 years as a reflexologist, Kendra Boone explains the healing response and what to watch for in the 24 hours after a session. Learn why some people feel lighter right away, some sleep deeply, and some temporarily feel a bit worse before improvement begins. Read the full post: https://wix.to/NwKn1bi

Why you might feel worse before you feel better?After 35 years as a reflexologist, the question I am asked most often is:“How many sessions will I need?”And my answer is usually this: let’s see how you respond in the next 24 hours.Because what happens after a session tells us so much.Sometimes...

29/01/2026

This feels like a turning point.

What if diagnosis stopped blaming individuals — and started pointing to the systems that shaped their pain?

https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/trauma-informed-mental-health-care-diagnosis

I’ve been sitting with something I heard recently in a conversation about mental health diagnosis — and it’s stayed with me. More than that, it’s left me feeling quietly hopeful.Perhaps we’re headed toward a day where a diagnosis is less of an albatross for an individual and more of a red ...

28/01/2026

YOGA NEVER ASKED US TO GO DEEPER

Long before we had language like titration and pendulation, yoga therapy understood something essential about healing:
The nervous system restores itself through rhythm, pacing, and wise sequencing — not force.

In trauma-sensitive yoga therapy, we don’t move straight into intensity.
We prepare.
We sequence.
We build capacity gradually.

Through vinyasa (in its original sense), repetition, rest, and choice, the body is given time to remember and release, rather than be pushed to relive or override.

Modern trauma science is helping us name why this works — but the wisdom itself isn’t new.
Healing doesn’t happen through breakthrough moments alone.
It happens through oscillation: effort and ease, sensation and rest, inner awareness and outer orientation.

This is the work I continue to explore and teach — where embodied wisdom leads, and the nervous system is met with respect for its timing.

Yoga doesn’t need to be pushed or perfected.

My classes and courses offer trauma-sensitive, body-led ways to practice — with pacing, choice, and respect for where you are.

Enrolling now.

Explore what feels right for you:
👉 kendrahealingarts.com
https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/yoga-therapy-titration-pendulation

Why Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapy Has Always Worked With Titration and Pendulation-The Rhythmic Intelligence Yoga Has Always Known. In trauma-aware healing today, we often hear the words titration and pendulation — terms used in somatic trauma therapy to describe how the nervous system restores it...

21/01/2026

YOGA ISN'T ALWAYS HEALING

Yoga classes often focus on general practice — shared shapes, sequences, and rhythms designed for the group.

Yoga therapy is different.

Yoga therapy preserves yoga’s original intention.

It begins with you — your nervous system, your history, your capacity, and your current context.

Practices are adapted, not prescribed.

Safety, choice, and pacing come first.

If you’ve found that regular yoga hasn’t met your needs — or has felt overwhelming, inaccessible, or incomplete — trauma-sensitive yoga therapy may be the missing piece.

You’re welcome to explore this work through trauma-sensitive yoga programs or private yoga therapy, at a pace that honours your body and your life.

Enrolments and bookings are open via the link in bio.

29/12/2025

A BODY - FIRST APPROACH FOR ANXIOUS CHILDREN

When children live with high anxiety, it often reflects how much they’re having to navigate in a very complex world.

Trauma-sensitive yoga therapy is gentle, natural, body-first support that helps nervous systems settle, so children can feel more at home in themselves as they learn how to meet life and stay present within it.

This work isn’t about fixing or changing children — it’s about offering safety, skills, and support as they grow into the world they’re living in.

✨ Private 1:1 sessions available in Kingston or online Australia wide.
Health funds provider for bodywork.

Link in bio 🙏

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15/12/2025

Discover the incredible benefits of TRE Trauma Release for somatic healing! 🌿 This approach not only supports trauma recovery, but also integrates the dance of expansion and containment.

Are you ready to embrace healing?

Learn more about this transformative practice at https://wix.to/8ENQXZs

How TRE Trauma Release Supports Trauma-Informed Somatic HealingIf you’ve tried to heal through your mind but still feel stuck in your body, you’re not alone. Somatic practices like TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) offer another way in — one that begins with the body’s own language of...

04/12/2025

Body-Led Permission for BPD: A New Way to Meet Your Inner World

Many people who live with a BPD diagnosis or long-term trauma share a similar experience:

Your mind understands so much —
and yet your body still tightens, reacts, or becomes overwhelmed.

This isn’t a flaw.
It’s your nervous system doing what it learned to do in order to protect you.

Over the years, I’ve watched something powerful happen in my work with clients:

When your relationship with your body begins to shift, your relationship with your mind shifts too.
Not through force or control — but through permission.

Permission to notice.
Permission to move at your own pace.
Permission to feel without being swallowed by the feeling.

This is why I offer Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) — a gentle, choice-led, body-first approach that supports emotional steadiness, grounding, and self-understanding in a way talking alone often can’t reach.

If you live with emotional intensity, sensitivity, or attention that comes in waves, this work can offer a different kind of support… one that begins in the body rather than the mind.

8-Week Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Program

A steady, predictable space where your body can explore regulation and connection safely.

Suitable for:
• People with BPD diagnoses
• ADHD traits
• PTSD and Complex Trauma
• Trauma histories
• Sensitive or fast-moving nervous systems

This program includes:
• Weekly group or private sessions
• Choice-led movement
• Trauma-informed rest practices
• Interoceptive awareness
• A steady, supportive environment to return to each week

If you feel drawn to exploring a body-led pathway to steadiness and self-connection, you’re welcome to join the next 8-Week TCTSY Program.

Learn more or register here:
📎 www.kendrahealingarts.com

Or send me a message if you’d like to talk about whether this could be supportive for you.

https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/trauma-sensitive-yoga-for-bpd-trauma-adhd-an-8-week-tctsy-journey

Discover how an 8-week Trauma-Sensitive Yoga program can support emotional steadiness, self-connection, and nervous-system safety for people living with BPD, trauma, or ADHD traits.

30/10/2025

SAFE YOGA SPACE

What do you look for in the space when attending a yoga group practice.
What stops you from attending some spaces and why?

Does incense bother you?
Not being able to move your mat?
Lotsa lycra?

30/10/2025

12/10/2025

SUBTLE YOGA CAN HAVE POTENCY.

Apart from the huge list of therapeutic benefits from slow, subtle yoga, such as nervous system regulation, better digestion, reduced depression, improved breathing, and sexual self-actualization, subtle yoga can offer a deeper dive into the somatic richness of Self (capital S), a valuable part of healing trauma / glaciers.

Feedback from my TCTSY group course weekly practice shared insights today on how we don’t have to be doing more to receive more — and by doing less, slowing down, choosing to be really present in our bodies, fertile ground for interoception to flourish and healing trauma to naturally occur.

They can choose whether being still or moving is serving with this relationship of embodiment.
Whilst TCTSY offers choices in pace and performance, most participants end up slowing down, not speeding up, to connect with their individual flow of prana that serves them best.

Perhaps the choice-making is the key to self-awareness — quite often not offered in mainstream fast-fitness, highly-cued yoga practices.

So ~

Are you tired of the one-size-fits-all approach to yoga?

Are you looking for a better mind-body connection?

Are you looking for a safe space that’s less about being pushed into yoga asanas and more about your body and mind’s needs?

Are you healing trauma and pursuing post-growth awakening?

Are you seeking more mental health–aware yoga?

Book a self-care package, or join a TCTSY course, and we’ll use trauma-sensitive yoga therapy to guide us into an embodied Self-practice.

23/08/2025

Have you ever noticed your body start to shake?

Maybe during a yoga class, after a Pilates session, following childbirth, or in the middle of a panic attack. These moments can feel unsettling — even frightening — but they are not signs of weakness. They are your body’s natural healing mechanisms at work.

In this blog, I explore how spontaneous shaking — from yogic kriyas to TRE tremors — reflects the wisdom of prāṇa, and how learning to work with these movements can support safety, regulation, and belonging. If this resonates with you, stay with me — and consider joining a Foundational TRE Course, now enrolling, where you can explore these practices in a safe, guided way.

https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/sacred-somatics-kriya-soma-yoga-therapy

Discover sacred somatics — the balance of kundalini kriya (fire) and soma (moon nectar). Learn how yoga therapy and TRE frame shaking as prana’s intelligence, supporting containment, safety, and embodied belonging.