
This video by a learner (who does make a couple of mistakes) was easier to start with and then after I could recall the movements I moved onto other videos to improve the my movements.ĭeadlift and squats, Yes the hard stuff. Again there is many many YouTube videos I found most were to difficult to follow at first as they didn’t make it easy enough. Just to learn the basic 24 forms routine so you can do it effectively without watching the video will be a great achievement. Thi chi – This is very similar to the mind body connection movements in yoga but less intense. it can feel similar to a good long meditation session. Start off with what you can cope with but you must do an intense session to get the internal stress of the muscles so at the end when you do your Savasana at the end, it’s hard to describe but you have stressed the body to a point throughout the yoga session that when you let go of the tension as you lie down and rest at the end, the consciousness that was holding that tension in the body is also let go and it “falls” out of you. There are numerous Yoga teachers online you can watch and copy, the better ones are the ones that give you muscles cues such as pull you shoulders down, pull up on the knee cap, spin your triceps forward etc etc. Yoga & Thi-Chiīoth are linked to steady focused breathing in relation to your body movements in time and space. The digestion system is one where you can actual feel a difference with the food shifting along or stomach emptying, even rumbles in the stomach. Then in your mind tell it to relax and function normally, everything is safe now, imagine things like gears or engines stepping up a gear, you can do the same for each major organ.

Focus on your digestion system as a location for your breath to go, you should after a little while feel a difference there. Once you can do this type of meditation you can focus on and imagine the internal organs, these might still be in a tense stressed mode. You follow the breath into the body and imagine different colours of clouds filling up each limb, try visualise and feel just you left side or right side fill up, it’s about syncing up your internal image of your body with your the felt experience. You can then move onto self directed meditations. Improving this mind body/muscle connection, conscious breathing, and tensing the core to “hug” the organs linked to the vagus nerve are the fundamentals of all the techniques below. If you’ve suffered pre-verbal trauma, you might find you have a poor mind to body relationship, you may be semi dissociated from you body in time and space (projecting forward to the next thing, or your consciousness is outside looking in) it’s also where we get our phrase ‘beside ourselves’ from when people describe a shock to the system, for preverbal trauma sufferers this feeling can be pretty much the norm.

Maybe it’s because my trauma was so deep that I needed better effective solutions, so over the months I’ve tried many and put together a list of what I found useful. After first finding out about the links between trauma and the vagus nerve I came across numerous articles or videos from therapists or Doctors about repairing it, most just seemed to miss the mark, were not effective and defiantly not from their own first hand experience.
