Kendra Healing Arts

26/03/2026

Choice-making can feel unfamiliar at first.

In trauma-sensitive yoga, you might notice a part of you that just wants to be told what to do.

That makes sense.

Following instructions can feel safer.
Clear.
Predictable.

And sometimes, that is where we begin.

But over time, something else is quietly being invited…

A noticing.
A pause.
A moment where you might sense — do I want to stay, shift, or step back?

This is the practice of choice-making.

Not getting it right.
Not forcing a decision.

Just gently exploring what it’s like to have options.

In approaches like Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), choice isn’t added on —it’s central.

Because trauma can interrupt our sense of agency, and healing often includes the slow return of it.

So if you find yourself unsure, or even saying “I don’t know”…
that’s not a problem.

That might be the beginning of something.

Ready to explore this in a supported space?

You’re invited to join my
8-week Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) course

✨ Online or in-person (Kingston)
🗓 Wednesdays at 12:30

Sliding scale payment system.

This is structured space where you can begin to explore
choice-making, body awareness, and your own rhythm — without pressure, and in your own time.

No experience needed.

Just a willingness to be curious.

If it feels like the right moment, I’d love to have you there.

16/03/2026

SPACE TO WHISPER YES OR NO

Have you ever been told to “connect to your body”…
but no one showed you how?

For many people healing from stress or trauma, the body doesn’t immediately feel like a safe place to land.

In trauma-sensitive yoga, the space respects your body’s need to feel, pause, and express what it needs.

Embodiment takes time.
And practice.

I often hear participants describe it as “befriending my body.”

Your body might whisper yes or no to a posture.

Yes or no to being with the breath.

And sometimes… not knowing.

That’s welcome too.

It can be a doorway to curiosity —
a brain-changing experience.

So we create more space to hear the whispers.

Because in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) we value:

✨ Choice within a steady structure grounding in interoception as sensations and feelings arise.

✨ Inner listening through invitational language
my guiding voice supports you to also hear your own.

✨ Power with, not power over
non-coercion every step of the way.

And slowly, self-compassion begins to step in…
whispering yes or no.

If you’re curious about body-based healing, there are different ways to explore:

• Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)
• TRE® – Tension & Trauma Release Exercises
• One-to-one sessions or small groups

Each offering creates space for your nervous system to find its own rhythm again.

Courses and sessions enrolling now.

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12/03/2026

PRATYAHARA - OUR INTERNAL SPACE

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose.” — Viktor Frankl

For many people living with complex trauma, that space can feel very small.

The nervous system may have learned to respond quickly in order to survive — mobilising, bracing, freezing, or shutting down.

In trauma-sensitive yoga, I offer invitations rather than instructions.

Participants explore movement, rest, and moments of possible stillness in their own rhythm.

From there, awareness often begins to turn inward — what yoga philosophy calls Pratyahara.

Exploring body shapes, and iRest Yoga Nidra can support this inward listening.

If this work resonates, you are welcome to join us on Fridays at 9.30am.

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09/03/2026

OUT OF YOUR HEAD ~ INTO YOUR BODY

When my body tremors it feels like something is breaking down. (Well, there's just an environmental crisis, surrounding wars, and crumbling world order ...)

Lately it feels more like a quiet rebellion.

It helps me stay in 'Flow State' to avoid shutting down.

A release from all the ways the body has learned to hold, contain, and conform.

Maybe the old ways of being can’t really fall away until our body allows them to move through and release.

TRE® has been teaching me to stay curious about this —

This incredible natural recovery reflex that all mammals share.

How do you feel and move anxiety?
How do you feel the shake?
Where do you brace against the world?

If you’d like to learn how your body does this, join my next TRE® into course in Kingston.

08/03/2026

I DON'T HAVE TO WORK SOMATICALLY HARD

Once you know how to stop and start your natural tremor, you can rest back and allow your body to show you how easy it can be to NOT HAVE TO BRACE against the world.

You'll begin to notice just how much 'holding on' there is.

No talking required.
No retelling trauma required.
No big emotional understanding required.

Let me show you how.

3 session private TRE intro package $370.

Get started this week.

01/03/2026

Not sleeping well?

I am looking for 3 people to join the intro to TRE for 3 group, for pain and anxiety on a Friday at 11am. 

SHAKE FOR BETTER SLEEP

TRE for 3

with a focus on pain and anxiety

Fridays 11am to 12 noon

March 13, 20, 27

We know that relaxation and rest helps us sleep, but often its a challenge because we miss the vital step - letting go of bracing & control. 

TRE or tension and trauma release shaking activates a natural physiological release and surrender, so our mind calms in the wonder of realizing how much 'holding' is no longer there. 

If your body is holding onto tension, stiffness, inflammation or anxiety and believe that the body is the pathway to deeper healing, then TRE might be for you.

TRE course is for you if you are;

👉 Looking for a natural, self regulated way to reconnect with your body/embodiment

👉 Ready to welcome an old lost inner friend called tremoring

👉 Are enlivened by group dynamics and consciousness

👉 Feeling stuck in anxiety, pain, sleepless cycles

👉 Ready to release traumain your nervous system without need to talk 

👉 Finding tension and stiffness is ongoing, and stretching ineffective

👉 Find it a challenge to rest or meditate or sleep.

What is TRE?

TRE stands for tension and trauma release exercises, somatic technique.What is

TRE is a trauma informed model that supports our natural (yet most of us suppress it or are completely unaware of it) re organisational or 'recovery reflex' innate to all humans.

During TRE sessions, I teach you to deliberately invoke a natural reflex as an empowering self care practice, to assist you to access YOUR OWN internal resources.

My aim is for you to learn to do TRE independantly and befriend your bodys wisdom and healing capabilities.

As you learn to trust your body's ways of releasing and activating stress, your patterns of behaviour and lifestyle may readjust along the way.

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21/02/2026

Polyvagal Theory is being called “untenable.”

And it’s got me reflecting.

Because while science debates and refines itself, I also find myself remembering something steady:

I can trust the yoga.

Long before vagal language, yoga therapy was working with these rhythms through the Gunas —

mobilisation,
inertia,
steadiness

— not as pathology, but as movements in nature.

We’ve been observing and working with these patterns for millennia.

Not in laboratories.

In bodies.
In RELATIONSHIP

So yes, the research matters.
Yes, critique matters.

But no theory is the nervous system itself.
It’s a lens.

What I care about is this:

Does the language help someone feel more understood?

Does it help them relate to their own experience with less shame?

Does it strengthen relationship — to self and others?

That’s where the real shift happens.

I’m genuinely curious —

If you work with Polyvagal Theory, how has it been landing in practice?

And if you come from other traditions — what have you already been trusting?

For me, I’ll stay in conversation with the science. And I’ll keep trusting the yoga.

18/02/2026

IF SAFETY ISN'T THE ABSENCE OF DISCOMFORT, THEN WHAT IS IT?

Safety in healing spaces isn't about everything feeling calm and easy.

It's about autonomy.

It's about knowing you can:
✨️ opt out
adjust
Speak up

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

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You don’t have to have it all figured out to be doing "well."

Sometimes we feel like we should be able to hand-pick our emotions like a tidy ball of yarn. We think we should say, "I am exactly 20% tired and 80% hopeful."

But the reality of a human heart is often that big, colorful scribble at the bottom. It’s okay if your feelings feel "loud," "blurry," or "tangled" today.

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