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Workshops & Groups
Neuroscience demonstrates the profound inherent benefits to physiological and mental health when humans engage with water, especially the ocean. Being around the rhythmic ocean enables humans to engage their 'blue mind' which releases feel-good hormones like dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin and allows for relaxation, restoration, and reconnection. 'Blue mind' is the antidote to 'red mind' - the hyperarousal fight or flight state that releases cortisol - and to 'gray mind' - the hypoarousal state of depression. Trauma survivors tend to oscillate between these two states of dysregulation, and 'blue mind' is a natural way to help them gain skills of regulation to bolster resilience and better operate within their window of tolerance.
Resilience Rising engages survivors in a variety of yoga formats: trauma-informed yoga, aerial yoga, animal yoga, and aqua yoga. For survivors of sexual trauma, embodiment is an integral part of healing. Somatic interventions like yoga provide reintegration, enhancing proprioception and interoception. The mindfulness of breath and gentle movement activate the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing for calm, restoration, a sense of body safety, and the strengthening of healthy neural pathways. Trauma-informed yoga builds incremental shifts to widen the window of tolerance and enhance emotion regulation.
Pottery
- Color Me Mine
Art therapy helps survivors process and heal from trauma through non-verbal means, enhancing the ability to access and express thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories that are difficult to put into words. Art provides a healthy, adaptive coping tool for facilitating the management of challenging emotions and the channeling of safe, creative expression. The benefits of art therapy include: stress reduction, emotion regulation, self-expression, improved communication, and trauma recovery.
101 S Topanga Canyon Blvd, PO Box 805, Topanga, CA 90290-9998
(310) 488-8195
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call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
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