When we leave the task of trauma resolution to mental processes alone we risk leaving out half the equation toward the solution of post traumatic growth. In the body, holds all of the same resistances, propensities, expectation-seeking, and abandonment of sensation. Thankfully, when centering one’s mental focus on the body, we can track our responses in a new way that creates a new determination of how we will live our lives off of the yoga mat. Although Yoga is known for creating awareness of our inner realities, in a progressive form, yoga also guides us to take the actions in our bodies that we need the most. The first time that the Trauma Cooperative Yoga® Founder, Jo Standing, discovered Yoga, and was able to be present for the whole class in it's entirety, she made the mental note immediately upon the completion of her practice that this was something known to her as self-psychology on the mat.

Although best known simply as Yoga, in this book we explore dimensions of yoga beyond the "Founding Fathers of Yoga” version. Whereas women were initially not allowed to practice yoga by these founding fathers, the West has, and is, modernizing yoga to be more inclusive of all social and economic factors that one may have attached to them at birth, and throughout life. TCY®takes adaptive yoga to the next level with more emphasis on commanding one’s language to fit the mold of yogic intention, following one’s own path with a teacher's suggestions rather than a teacher's one-sided instructions in mind, and finally to learn to meet oneself in a transitory way rather than in a finite one. For example, sometimes postures are a place to shift as one needs whereas sometimes transitions are a time to slow down, and opt for absence of movement, for a length of pause that serves the moment.