At the JRI, they understand trauma as primarily a body thing and not a thinking thing. In other words, traumatized people are not thinking so much about what happened in the past as living in a body that is frozen, and hyper-alert, and numb, and where any dynamic change is a terror.

This view is supported by new neuro-research but trauma is still often treated as a problem of thinking (if only you stop thinking about the past and instead focus on what a lovely day it is etc.

) as evidenced by the prevalence of techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

They feel that the body needs to be addressed front and center and thus yoga holds a lot of potential.