Lisa Danylchuk, LMFT, E-RYT, is a licensed psychotherapist and founder of The Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard University, her work has pioneered the field of trauma-informed yoga and transformed our understanding of embodiment practices in therapeutic work. More than 400 providers from 30+ countries have completed Lisa’s Yoga for Trauma (Y4T) Online Training Program, the first virtual program to train providers offering trauma-informed yoga.
Lisa currently serves as President for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation,
and has served in leadership roles for the organization for the past 5 years. Her research has been published by the American Counseling Association and she has contributed to many peer-reviewed articles in the fields of trauma and human development. She’s written for and the American Psychological Association, Good Therapy and was named one of the top 20 Inspirational Yoga Teachers To Follow in 2016. Honored as Luluemon’s first California ambassador, her website www.howwecanheal.com has also been recognized as a Top 25 Yoga Blog.
Lisa’s books include Embodied Healing: Using Yoga to Recover from Trauma and Extreme Stress (2015), How You Can Heal: A Strength Based Guide to Trauma Recovery (2017), and most recentlyYoga for Trauma Recovery: Theory, Philosophy, and Practice (2019). She is a also contributing editor for the Best Practices for Yoga for Veterans, published by the Yoga Service Council.
Lisa lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. When she’s not writing or teaching, you’ll likely find her running trails in nearby parks or snuggling with her two dogs, Iris and Bumi.
On This Episode we talk:
- Remembering in middle school that feeling of watching others and also having a connection to what felt safe or right to her.
- from a young age seeing how one decision leads to another which can lead to us abondoning ourself.
- How she ended up looking into a special program at Harvard after going into college undeclared and trying courses from a number of focuses and ended up with a communications major, still not knowing what she would do.
- What she calls “feeling it forward” and how she has moved through her life that way.
- How having periods of not knowing is necessary and normal, that we don’t always need to have a 5 year plan or a plan at all.
- Why she implements ways of side by side counseling instead of traditional sitting across from each other in a room.
- How she got into yoga and what made her so inspired to create trauma work using yoga
- all the talk about nervous system on social media and what it means to regulate your nervous system
Learn more about her and get her book at https://lisadanylchuk.com
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