Teaching Trauma Informed Practices to Mothers in Recovery
Episode 2
Episode Overview
In this moving and informative episode, Danielle Begg speaks with Susy Strange about her personal journey using yoga to manage a curvature of the spine and multiple related surgeries, and reclaiming safety and connection with her body. Susy shares how her lived experience shaped her path teaching trauma informed yoga, and discusses her work supporting mothers and their babies inside a drug rehabilitation centre.
This conversation explores the power of therapeutic movement and nervous system regulation in spaces where safety, dignity, and connection are essential.
Key topics covered
Susy's lived experience with scoliosis and related surgeries, and how yoga can safely support the nervous system after trauma
The inspiring ways Susy's personal transformation impacted her life path
The evidence base for trauma informed methods
Why an evidence base is important for integrating Yoga within healthcare
How trauma informed yoga differs from mainstream studio practice
How Yoga can impact healing from childhood trauma
Practical Techniques to regulate the nervous system that Susy finds helpful to practice and teach
Supporting parenting capacity through nervous system regulation and the power of coregulation
