We can use emotional and physical triggers to lead us onto a path of discovery. The unwinding and healing of the trauma trail has many steps. Each step taken is an act of power, which also builds self-respect.

The emotional charge of an unresolved experience is archived in cell tissue. (To...

I have a saying that I've taught to the Forrest Yoga community: Never waste a good trigger.

Triggers can be an incredible ally. Triggers lead to what needs healing. Instead of being ashamed of being triggered, get excited because you have a clue for where to do...

My last article explored how to manage your fear after a fright, like a car swerving. This time, I'd like to teach you a new way to walk through another common dangerous situation. I offer you some very useful tools to survive and emerge victorious. Learn to shift from being...

In my previous articles in this series, I gave you steps to stalk your fear and some Forrest Yoga tools to use immediately in frightening situations. Let's look now at some common scenarios that are very scary. We all need to learn to handle everyday fearful situations, like walking alone...

In my last column, I gave you five steps to take to work with fear. Now I would like to share with you some examples of how I have stalked and worked with my own fear. The first happened just a short time ago. I was on the phone with...

Stalking your fear is chapter one in my book, Fierce Medicine, because we need to deal with our fear, first and foremost. We are all affected by fear. Whether we push it away or deny it, the reaction to fear is usually toxic and unhelpful, numbing us out and making...

Recently, I had the privilege of working with the Exalted Warrior Foundation to bring yoga to wounded veterans at Haley VA Hospital. I would love to inspire everyone to give back in their own way by sharing my experience and ideas for adapting yoga for people with big...

I would like to introduce you to someone who is near and dear to my heart. My friend and student Kelley Rush is a breast cancer survivor. Truly though, she is -- to use Kelley's own phrase -- a breast cancer "sur-THRIVE-or," because she has chosen to use this serious...

What if you made ecstasy part of your daily spiritual practice? How would that change the richness and the quality of your life? If you want to reclaim your sexuality, and learn how to live on the ecstatic spectrum, do yoga. You don't need to learn 450 positions; that won't...

I've written recently about the sequences I designed for our military to help with the stress of their work, and I'd like to share some of this with you. Let's focus first on poses you can do while just sitting in a chair.

Whether you are a fighter pilot or...

This past January, I talked to a young woman who has an amazing job. Captain Dawson -- let's call her by her call-sign, "Ditch" -- is a U.S. Air Force Captain and a fighter pilot who has served in Afghanistan and over Libya and is now getting ready to deploy...

Monday is Memorial Day. My intent at this time is to sit with our honored dead. Our warriors who died with a very big mission. They died attempting to do what they thought was right and it reinforces my own pledge of doing what I can to support our people...

PTSD sufferers experience extreme stress reactions. An example of this behavior is when a car backfires and the person hits the ground as though they are under attack. I teach them how to retrain their extreme response so that they can befriend and regulate their response into being alert, thus...