VETERANS

VETERANS: FREE Women's Gentle Yoga at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System every 4th Wednesday of the month: 5-6:30 pm. Questions? yoga@greentreeyoga.org or 801-656-7885

Visit our FREE webpage for some simple stress management mp3 downloads and easy to use handouts.

Yoga can provide a valuable tool for stress management and healing to people of all shapes, sizes, and abilities.

The benefits of yoga to veterans are many, as noted in these two articles.

From: Healing Life's Traumas (click to read)

"I can be very difficut to stay in your own body when you're getting flashbacks, the lighting changes, and you feel like you're not even in the room." ~ Sara

"Yoga is not about talking about your trauma. It's about you and your relationship to your body," ~ Van de Kolk.

From: Yoga and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (click to read)

"Yoga helps regulate emotional and physiological states... Yoga helps you feel safe in your own body. Yoga teaches us that there are things we can do .. to quiet the brain."

Women's Program at the VA in the Salt Lake-- Click to learn more.