How To Make Healing From Trauma Fast and Easy with Lauren Walker

Tessa Tovar

Some of the ways we've been teaching yoga are broken. The space lacks accountability, but how do we enforce accountability with empathy? Lauren Walker and Tessa discuss how to teach yoga more holistically, why hurt people hurt people, and how speaking the language of your body, mind,
and spirit can make healing from trauma fast and easy.

Lauren Walker is the founder of Energy Medicine Yoga. She is the author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice.

Timestamps

(00:00) Who is Lauren Walker?

(02:33)
What's wrong with how we study yoga?

(09:39) Shifting how we study yoga

(14:38) Balancing accountability, compassion, and guilt.

(27:06) Is yoga a privilege?

(34:13) Can you discover your purpose if you are traumatized?

(41:08) Healing trauma doesn't
need to take time

(47:25) Becoming powerful by owning your emotions

(54:31) Healing from trauma is easy

4 Key Takeaways

1. If you have received valuable teachings from a teacher that turned out to be an abuser, try to separate the teaching from the
teacher.

2. Yoga educators who abuse their power need to be held accountable. Oftentimes, educators who inflict trauma are themselves traumatised. They need to be held accountable and go to spaces where they can let go of their trauma.

3. Instead of feeling guilty for the privileges
you have or feeling bad for the misfortunes you've been inflicted with, ask yourself: what can I do with the life I've been given?

4. Healing takes desire and commitment, it doesn't necessarily take lots of time. It is after you heal from trauma, that you can have the mental
space to think about your purpose.

Links

The Energy to Heal: Find Lasting Freedom From Stress and Trauma Through Energy Medicine Yoga by Lauren Walker https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Heal-Lasting-Freedom-Medicine/dp/0738769495

Connect With
Lauren Walker:

Website: https://www.energymedicineyoga.net/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/energymedicineyoga/

Connect With Tessa Tovar:

Website: https://tessatovar.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TBenedicktus

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