Yogafit’s Intergenerational and Collective Trauma workshop is designed to explore the different types of “root” traumas to include attachment as well as intergenerational and collective trauma. We will explore the connection between attachment traumas and attunement and the origins of mis-attunement which has been linked to intergenerational and collective trauma. We will look at factors that can cause mis-attunement and ultimately inhibit our ability to connect to others.

Over the tumultuous last few years, we as a society are starting to bring more awareness to the importance of collective trauma. Many practical and spiritual experts on healing are realizing the exploration of collective trauma is at the leading edge of healing. The groundbreaking study of holocaust survivors showed how intergenerational and collective trauma gets created and passed through generations through DNA (Epigenetics) and a markedly reduced ability to handle stress leading to worse physical and mental health outcomes across a lifetime for future generations regardless of direct experience of trauma. Ultimately, intergenerational trauma means all of us are born into a pre-traumatized world. As we are witnessing, past trauma surfaces in times of increased stress and massive change making it imperative that we increase the capacities of individuals and groups to heal the collective trauma of our time.

We will look at ways our yoga practices may be supporting or even hindering our ability to cultivate awareness of self, the other and the collective field. We will explore practical exercises to support and strengthen attunement skills for yourself and others and we will learn how to harness the challenge of emotional wounds to turn them into post-traumatic growth, resilience, and learning. We will learn ways to increase our relational capacity to self-regulate and create coherent collective fields that support one another. We will explore and practice collective witnessing and learn to create a stronger field of witnessing presence as both a participant and observer and contemplate what effect this has on our collective physiology.