Many of us choose helping professions because we genuinely care. Whether we’re supporting clients, teaching yoga, or guiding people through difficult life moments, we’re often the steady presence others rely on. But caring deeply, day after day, can take a toll. Over time, that emotional investment can leave us feeling exhausted, detached, or discouraged. This is known as compassion fatigue.

In recent years, the integration of yoga within occupational therapy practice has gained recognition for its therapeutic benefits, especially when approached through a trauma-informed lens. The combination of yoga and occupational therapy can provide a holistic approach to support individuals on their healing journey. In this blog post, we'll explore three simple yet powerful ways to incorporate yoga into occupational therapy practice and how to foster resilience, self-regulation, and empowerment for all clients.

“Trauma” and “trauma-informed” are terms often used by many yoga schools and providers in their marketing attempts to attract students seeking resources for trauma recovery. In this blog post, I discuss the definition of trauma, what it truly means to be trauma-informed as a yoga provider, and how to find a provider qualified to support your post-traumatic growth and recovery.

Sometimes referred to as the “Foundational Trinity” (Walker, 2013), the Grounding, Orienting & Resourcing (GOR) Technique is deeply rooted in neuroscience and has been shown to assist individuals who have experienced trauma to create an internal sense of safety and well-being for healing from trauma symptoms (Stoller, 2019).

Eat Breathe Thrive Facilitator Alyssa Gremban shares her story of twenty-two years and thirteen hospitalizations battling an eating disorder and how Eat Breathe Thrive, in combination with therapeutic yoga practices, helped her turn on a recovery “light bulb” she didn’t even know existed.

In order to understand what makes services at The Yogi OT℠ unique, we first have to explain the two schools of practice that are integrated into our programs: occupational therapy and yoga.