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Liz Albanis opens up about her personal experiences with trauma and the healing modalities that helped her reclaim her sense of safety and wholeness. Speaking with Kristin, Liz explains how practices like TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), and trauma-informed yoga have been pivotal in her recovery journey. She shares how multiple trauma experiences can shape the nervous system and emotional responses and how healing is rarely linear. A standout moment from the conversation is Liz’s advice to yoga teachers: “If you use candles, advertise it…it’s not for everyone.” This reflects a powerful truth: even small sensory elements in a class can be triggering. By making thoughtful adjustments, teachers can create safer, more compassionate spaces.
The broader message is clear. when yoga is taught with trauma-awareness, it becomes more accessible, effective, and empowering for everyone. 

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Liz Albanis joins the Native Yoga Toddcast to explore how trauma-informed yoga practices can build resilience, support mental health.  
Sharing insights from her own journey with PTSD and using yoga to quit smoking. Liz explains how nervous system regulation, breath-work, and tailored movement help people manage stress and reclaim their well-being.
“My advice is if you use candles, advertise it…it’s not for everyone.” Liz reminds us that seemingly simple choices can deeply impact students. For someone with past trauma linked to fire, like Liz, unannounced candles can trigger anxiety. This kind of awareness makes yoga more inclusive and emotionally safe.
Her approach highlights how trauma-informed teaching doesn’t just benefit those with lived experience. It strengthens the quality of instruction for all, fostering trust, accessibility, and better mental health outcomes.

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Liz Albanis  joins the Confidence Through Health Podcast and shares her personal story of finding healing through her yoga practice.

She also shares how:

• Trauma lives in the fascia and nervous system, shown through her own experience with involuntary post-fire trauma tremors
• Certain yoga poses spike anxiety and restless nights, while others lower blood pressure and support mental health
• Somatic yoga is different from traditional yoga when it comes to processing trauma and improving emotional well-being
• Creating a personalized practice empowers you to process loss, rebuild inner stability, & find strength in uncertainty

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What if your “relaxing” yoga class was triggering someone’s trauma response? The stuff we think creates calm might be doing the exact opposite. And most teachers have no idea. Liz Albanis gets honest and unfiltered about the hidden ways yoga can harm. And how to teach with real sensitivity.
Key Topics:

• Yoga as penicillin? Why what heals one student could harm another
• The “nourishing” studio elements that quietly dysregulate trauma survivors.
• That pose isn’t hard, it’s literally not possible in their skeleton
  Emergency exits, mat placement, blink rate: what they reveal about your students.
• Relaxation versus Regulation.
• Real choice goes way beyond “take what you need
• Should yoga ever push buttons? 

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Peggy and Liz challenge the common Western misconceptions about yoga being only about athletic poses or flexibility. Liz explains that yoga is about calming the mind, regulating the nervous system, and cultivating awareness. That many of the most effective practices can be done anywhere, even at your desk, in your car, or lying in bed.
In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why yoga is not about flexibility or “being good at it”
• How trauma and stress are stored in the body. And why talk therapy alone isn’t always enough
• The difference between top-down and bottom-up healing approaches
• Simple breath-work practices to calm anxiety and prevent panic attacks
• How humming, sound, and mantra stimulate the vagus nerve
• Why certain yoga styles may actually disrupt sleep
• How to create “yoga snacks”. Short practices you can use throughout your day
  Why there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to meditation or yoga

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Host Elizabeth Elliot talks with Liz Albanis. Liz's own journey through stress, trauma, and recovery offers powerful context for her teachings. After losing her home in a devastating fire, she turned to yoga not just for physical movement but as a lifeline for navigating loss, rebuilding inner stability, and cultivating mental strength. On the podcast, we explore how Liz integrates her lived experience with trauma-informed practices that honor each person's unique story, how yoga can be a tool for mental health and nervous system support, and how small, intentional daily practices can transform stress into resilience. Whether you're deepening your practice or seeking holistic tools for healing and grounded living, this conversation reveals the heart of yoga beyond the pose. here transformation happens.

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In this heartfelt episode of Conversations That Heal, Dr. Stephanie Diane Jeffreys sits down with Liz Albanis, senior yoga teacher and host of Yoga for Trauma: The Inner Fire of Yoga, to explore how trauma truly lives in the body not just the mind.

After surviving childhood sexual assault, miscarriage, the loss of her mother, and two house fires, Liz shares how traditional yoga wasn’t always healing and how trauma-informed, somatic practices helped her reconnect safely with her body. We talk about nervous system healing, trauma tremors, pacing, consent, and why small, gentle practices can be more powerful than pushing through.

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In this week's episode Adrienne and cohosts interview Liz Albanis. She shares how she found yoga despite disconnection with her own body, found the right teacher training at the right time, and is deepening her yoga teaching through yoga therapy - which has a unique definition in Australia in comparison to the United States.