Alma is a counsellor and yoga teacher specialising in trauma sensitivity, yin yoga, somatic healing, and helping her clients to better understand their nerous systems and trauma responses. She has done extensive training in counselling, drug and alcohol support, trauma sesitivity yoga, polyvagal theory and much more. 

In this episode Alma helps to explain the different levels of the nervous system and how each much show up as different signs and symtpoms in a person when they are feeling triggered. 

We also talk about how this might be relevant in a yoga class when students are having an emotional response during the practice and how we as teachers can best support them. Alma also guides us through an amazing "back body" meditation as askill for therapists and teachers to use when they are holding space and needing to regulate their nervous system. 

You can connect with Alma through her website almabrock.com.au 

Alma also recommends the work of Dana Deb for those that might be interested in learning more about polyvagal theory: rhythmofregulation.com