A Yoga Community helps PTSD

Okay, after last nights rant I found a site called War Retreat. It's a community which uses Yoga in it's goal to help people, especially active duty and Veterans get though PTSD. Yoga is something I have done on and off for years. Recently I wish I could do it more, but I don't always have a safe place to do it in. For example the moment I try to lock myself away for some "me" time, I either have one of my Beloved's interrupting me because they are hungry, arguing, or asking permission to watch a movie. If I try to squeeze in yoga during my busy day, I usually end up with the puppy licking my feet or sitting on me. When I throw him outside I have to try and block out his whining and howling. All of these distractions make it difficult, but I'm still trying.

Anyway, I saw this in the article Earn CE Credit At A Trauma Seminar with Bessel van der Kolk, MD. and I thought I would share. I like what it has to say.

"Overcoming trauma means learning to fully engage in the present without being hijacked by survival-related emotions and sensations. Success means allowing yourself to know what you know and feel what you feel without reentering the misery of the past. Recovery depends on having physical experiences that contradict the sensations and feelings of helplessness and disconnection. Physical mastery of a body-based practice like yoga can open new pathways to current reality."

I wished I lived somewhere relatively close to where War Retreat is based. I'd like to know more about them. I wish I could go to seminars like this one, because right now my head is full of so many thoughts it feels like one of those cadges the bingo balls roll around in until a number is chosen. Only mine isn't stopping to let me hold on to a single thought. They just keep swirling around in my brain. Having my thoughts tumbling around isn't helping my personality. Everything and everyone is annoying me. I can hear my husband eat chips and drink from the next room.... and I want to claw his eyes out for it. The kids screeching and running around like banshies, it makes me want to scream in frustration.... but I'm the grown up, and I have to act like it. Being the grown up sucks sometimes, but someone has to do it, right?