FREE online Mindfulness Tools

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 Veterans Yoga Project supports recovery and resilience among veterans, military families, and communities, every day.  First responders are welcome to use all resources on their website and attend their FREE  online Mindful Resilience Yoga Classes.

 Their offerings include:

• Mindful Resilience for Trauma Recovery Training
• Mindful Resilience for Compassion Fatigue
• Mindful Resilience Yoga Classes (online and in-person)
• Mindful Resilience 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training
• VYP Mindful Resilience Program Development & Consultation
• Mindful Resilience & Yoga Research Programs

Discover their programs at www.veteransyogaproject.org

Their online studio hosts multiple classes a day taught primarily by veterans and first responders. You can check it out here or in the App store under Veterans Yoga Project

 Bessel van der Kolk M.D. 

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments - from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga - that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal - and offers new hope for reclaiming lives. 

Dr. Peter A. Levine

Dr. Levine invites us back into the natural intelligence of our body, showing how we can use the model of animals in the wild to understand—and rediscover—our own innate ability to heal from trauma. Animals frequently experience events that threaten their lives, safety, and kin—yet they don’t suffer from trauma in the same ways that we do. Instead, they instinctively respond to life-or-death situations by releasing survival energy. When we don’t process our own fight-flight-or-freeze hormones, we can stay “stuck,” locked into a trauma response that can wreak havoc on our bodies, lives, decision-making, and relationships. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Dr. Levine shows:

• How to regulate our nervous systems and transform personal trauma
• Practical, embodied exercises to help trauma move through our bodies before it takes root
• How early life experiences can rewire our fight-or-flight responses later in life
• The ways that trauma lives in the body, even when we think our minds and memories are “supposed to” move on
• Indigenous approaches for processing traumatic events
• Trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive parenting techniques
• How to administer “emotional first-aid” after an accident

When we don’t have the tools or the psychological safety to complete our natural, hardwired responses to traumatic events, we can unintentionally perpetuate patterns like avoidance, hypervigilance, mood issues, substance abuse, helplessness, or dysregulation. By learning to rewire our body's own healing capabilities, we can honor ourselves as “living, feeling, knowing” beings—and restore our holistic balance and body-mind wellness. 

Dr. Adrian Campbell

 The Dreamer’s companion was designed to give you the basics of dream analysis based on the theories of Carl Jung.

This colorful and inviting book includes:

• An introduction to the theory of the personal, cultural, and collective unconscious
• A description of what dream images are and how they can help us in our waking lives
• The fundamentals of creating a relationship with our dream images
• A bit of information about special dreams like nightmares, death dreams, visitation dreams, and repeating dreams
• A quick review of common challenges when working with dreams and a few tips
• Introduction to the 3-steps of Jungian Dream Analysis
• Step by step instructions on how to work you dream using Jungian dream analysis theory, including an example
• Beautiful quotes about dreams dispersed throughout
• Over 250 lined and blank pages for you to journal, draw, and doodle about your dreams.