This deck of trauma-sensitive yoga forms is designed for facilitators and counselors to help children focus on their own experience of each pose in the moment.
50 trauma-informed, color-coded cards-yoga poses, mindful movement exercises, and age-appropriate practices to help kids nurture embodiment, process complex trauma, and feel safer in their bodies
A comprehensive, empowering, developmentally appropriate, and easy-to-use deck that's grounded in attachment theory, neuroscience, and trauma theory
The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Deck for Kids centers that healing from traumatic experiences happens not just in the mind, but in the body-and offers tools and movement exercises to help children sense their bodies and experience safety within them.
The deck's practices focus on present-moment awareness, rhythmic movement, choice-making, and safe, effective touch. Across the deck and the accompanying booklet, the authors underscore empowering children to be the experts on their own bodies through invitational language, non-coercion, and authentic shared experience. Designed for therapists, social workers, parents, and other care facilitators, The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Deck for Kids supports-
Practical application- With 50 color-coded cards; adaptable exercises; movement practices that can be used individually or within groups; and a focus on four paths to embodiment Understanding trauma-informed foundations- Explores the distinctions among PTSD, C-PTSD, and developmental trauma Imagination, sensory awareness, and empowered choice- Name-free, writing-free, and gender- and demographically neutral, the cards are designed for all kids to see themselves in the movement exercises. Agency, creativity, and empowerment- Core practice principles include non-coercion; non-abandonment; and avoidance of physical adjustments, praise, or judgment-there's no "right" way to do any of the movements.
In addition to poses and movement invitations, the deck and booklet also include a range of games and somatic play activities suitable for individual and group settings.
