Shirley Hicks's guest appearances

Shirley Hicks

We All Wear It Differently - A Podcast for Early Career Psychologists

Being Yoga with Michael Daly

Jim Smith

Clay Cockrell

Kelsey Latimer

Andrew Roberts

Lorin Roche

Rebecca Ray

Nicole Highet

Simon Borg

Russ Harris

Adam Ferrier

Mark Breadner

Sandeep Gupta

Peter Norton

Anastasia Hronis

Jackie Simmons

OwlTail

In this episode you will learn about trauma, how common it is and how yoga practices and specific styles of trauma sensitive yoga classes can be highly useful in helping people develop stronger coping tools for trauma and also regulate their nervous system away from its regular triggering of the stress and fear mode.  Shirley Hicks is a Somatic Psychotherapist as well as a yoga teacher in the Dru tradition.  She has worked in the field of trauma for over 25 years.  She helped launch Trauma Sensitive Yoga Australia with her business partner Annabel McLiskey.  We discuss a general understanding of trauma as well as some of the challenges trauma sufferers might encounter when attending a regular yoga class.  We talk about how to adapt a regular class to help people feel choice and agency.  We also discuss the specific style of trauma sensitive yoga that is often done in one on one or small group classes.Links: www.traumasensitiveyogaaustralia.comhttps://www.facebook.com/traumasensitiveyogaaustralia www.shirleyhicks.com.au  - Private Clinic

In this episode you will learn about trauma, how common it is and how yoga practices and specific styles of trauma sensitive yoga classes can be highly useful in helping people develop stronger coping tools for trauma and also regulate their nervous system away from its regular triggering of the stress and fear mode.   Shirley Hicks is a Somatic Psychotherapist as well as a yoga teacher in the Dru tradition.  She has worked in the field of trauma for over 25 years.  She helped launch Trauma Sensitive Yoga Australia with her business partner Annabel McLiskey.   We discuss a general understanding of trauma as well as some of the challenges trauma sufferers might encounter when attending a regular yoga class.  We talk about how to adapt a regular class to help people feel choice and agency.  We also discuss the specific style of trauma sensitive yoga that is often done in one on one or small group classes. Links: <a href="http://www.traumasensitiveyogaaustralia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.traumasensitiveyogaaustralia.com</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/traumasensitiveyogaaustralia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/traumasensitiveyogaaustralia</a> <a href="http://www.shirleyhicks.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.shirleyhicks.com.au</a>  - Private Clinic

Trauma Sensitive Yoga - Shirley Hicks

Shirley Hicks is a somatic psychotherapist and yoga teacher, with a private clinic in Varsity Lakes, QLD.  She has a specific interest in how the body carries unresolved life events and how through “talk therapies” the body is often overlooked. With over 22 years of clinical experience, Shirley has refined the way she supports clients to involve their body in the healing process, drawing on the work of Judith Herman, Babette Rothschild, Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk.  Shirley is a facilitator with the BlueKnot Foundation, an organisation committed to advocacy and education for survivors of Childhood abuse. Shirley provides trauma-informed yoga programs for the Queensland Mental Illness Fellowship Shirley runs private, in house Yoga for Emotional Resilience programs.  Shirley is a clinical member of PACFA (Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia), as well as a Mental Health Practitioner and Supervisor with PACFA.  For more information and the links we spoke about check out the show notes.

Shirley Hicks is a somatic psychotherapist and yoga teacher, with a private clinic in Varsity Lakes, QLD.  She has a specific interest in how the body carries unresolved life events and how through “talk therapies” the body is often overlooked. With over 22 years of clinical experience, Shirley has refined the way she supports clients to involve their body in the healing process, drawing on the work of Judith Herman, Babette Rothschild, Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk. <ul> <li>Shirley is a facilitator with the BlueKnot Foundation, an organisation committed to advocacy and education for survivors of Childhood abuse.</li> <li>Shirley provides trauma-informed yoga programs for the Queensland Mental Illness Fellowship</li> <li>Shirley runs private, in house Yoga for Emotional Resilience programs.</li> </ul> Shirley is a clinical member of PACFA (Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia), as well as a Mental Health Practitioner and Supervisor with PACFA. <a href="https://weallwearitdifferently.com/2020/07/trauma-sensitive%E2%80%A6th-shirley-hicks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> For more information and the links we spoke about check out the show notes.</a>

#59 – Trauma Sensitive Yoga with Shirley Hicks