Deborah's a lifelong practitioner of yoga who began teaching it in 2001 while pregnant with her first child and is now an advanced yoga teacher in Seattle, Washington where she offers both public and private sessions often adjusted for therapeutic needs, most notably for PTSD, Trauma of many types, Multiple Sclerosis, other neurological challenges and chronic pain.
Her passion is discovering a unique practice for each person.
We talk about her incredibly busy life before and after lockdown, the journey through naming, accepting, and healing from our traumas, the unfathomables in the lives of others and how lockdown - though a pause for those poised with the privilege to enjoy it is for countless persons in abusive relationships and in poverty a time of magnified vulnerability and accelerated trauma.
We also look at roots of racial and tribal violence and how it will predictably increase in a time of collective stress and tension. And about ways to face and heal from monumental and longstanding systematic oppression, invalidation and violence.
Deborah also bravely addresses her personal experience of abuse and how it has shaped her life, practice and philosophy of how to be there for herself and others.
This interview has breathtaking relevance for the birth pains our society is going through right now in way-past-due movements to end inequality and usher in a world of real unity and humane values.
I pray it will be a source of hope, wisdom, direction and healing for all of you who are this moment living with trauma and abuse.
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Vashon Dove Project : Building Community. Ending Abuse.
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
