A Chicago-area yoga studio has created a new program, called Pathways to Empowerment, for people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Empowerment for personal change is one of the many benefits that orbit the time-tested yoga practice – whether it be in typical classes or Dahn Yoga – brain wave vibration exercises. A recent example of meditation helping heal the brain appears in the Chicago Beacon-News, which ran a story on a yoga studio that helps trauma victims heal.
The yoga center, run by instructors Pam O'Brien and Isie Brindley, lies just west of the Chicago metro area. They have created a new program, called Pathways to Empowerment, for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, the news source reports.
The basic program involves little in the way of rigorous or tiring exercise. It focuses almost exclusively on peaceful self-examination.
"The intention is different [than traditional yoga]," Brindley told the newspaper. "With this, you never force and you never push. You’re just inviting the student to explore."
Dahn Yoga brain wave vibration exercises are quite similar, in that they magnify the mind's energy inward, without taxing the body unnecessarily. Practitioners who have been through physical or mental anguish often find comfort in the personal change that contemplative relaxation brings.
