Laura Wilson
Laura is the founding director of Edinburgh Community Yoga and is a Yoga Therapist (2016, 500 hrs.) specialising in trauma-informed yoga for mental health. She is also an experienced trauma-informed yoga teacher (2012, 200hrs).
As a survivor, practitioner, teacher and therapist, Laura has a gift for understanding the complex relationship between the experiences we have, the subsequent patterning laid down in our nervous system and subconscious, and the interplay between body and mind in integrating these experiences. She is motivated by a deep faith in our ability to process, let go and reframe, and finds the rich tapestry of practices offered in yoga to be an extraordinary set of tools for navigating life as a human being.
What is Yoga Therapy?
Laura defines her work as, ‘the exploration of somatic practices which are grounded in yogic philosophy, to assist in supporting emotional, energetic, physical, and mental health.’
Laura is particularly interested in the way our traumatic experiences and subsequent emotional wounds can play out in our physical and mental wellbeing, and how yogic and somatic tools can support their integration.
Laura works with a concept she calls ‘optimal openness’ which seeks to support each of us to find our own version of somatic safety moment to moment.
When we can learn to be ‘optimally open’ as default, then we are in the driver’s seat of our own nervous system. And our internal landscape is congruent to the environment around us.