Healing Traumatic Stress from Chronic Pain
Somatic Practices to Break the Chronic Pain Chronic Stress Cycle
Course Summary
Chronic pain and chronic stress are a vicious cycle.
Chronic Pain creates chronic stress, which over activates the sympathetic nervous system’s traumatic stress response, which can lead to chronic muscle tension, anxiety, sleep problems and feelings of overwhelm.
This leads to more stress, less rest and more or continued pain.
But we can Break the Chronic Pain Chronic Stress Cycle
We are not powerless and certainly not hopeless against our body’s response to the chronic stress of chronic pain.
We have a superpower within our bodyand it’s the sympathetic nervous system and the button to activate this superpower is …… the vagus nerve !
In this course we will…
Learn how we can break the chronic pain cycle and restore your system to the healing state of the parasympathetic’s relaxation response.
Learn about the biology of chronic stress and how it activates your sympathetic fight and flight response contributing to pain cycles and your body’s inability to heal.
Practice easy and accessible body-based, somatic practices that can regulate your system, activate the relaxation response and break chronic stress-chronic pain cycles.
Learn to interrupt your body’s stress response to pain and to activate your body’s relaxation response so you can rest, recover and experience relief from chronic stress and chronic pain.
Experience over five hours of simple but powerful practices to activate your parasympathetic nervous systems “ rest and digest” relaxation response to relieve stress, relieve pain and promote rest and healing.
Chronic pain and chronic stress are a vicious cycle.
This leads to more stress, less rest and more
But we can Break the Chronic Pain
In this course we will…
Learn how we can break the chronic pain cycle
Learn about the biology of chronic stress
Practice easy and accessible body-based,
Learn to interrupt your body’s stress response
Experience over five hours of simple but powerful
Course Curriculum
Karen Penfold
Karen has personal experience with post-trauma stress, loss, and grief. Karen also has personal experiences with Healing and Hope. Through this journey, she discovered her passion to help others heal from trauma. She is a 10-year, two-time breast cancer and trauma survivor. Karen was introduced to yoga while recovering from breast cancer surgeries and treatments as well as a broken pelvis from a car accident. She credits much of her healing – in body, mind, and spirit – to the somatic, mindful, and spiritual practice of Christ-centered yoga.
