Welcome to Dani Fagan's Mind-Body Yoga School

Trauma-informed nervous system healing practices

Get back into our feeling bodies and out of our thinking heads - ease into gentle physical activity without fear, whilst softening and strengthening the body and the mind and settling the nervous system out of that sustained hypervigilant fight-or-flight state.

The key to my style of yoga working for you is gentle but consistent practice...focusing on teaching the mind that the body is safe and can rest and repair itself. Let me gently guide you to that place where you feel safe and understood in your healing journey, to create space where you feel stuck and appreciate your body as it recovers.

Focusing on fixing our 'problem areas' is NOT the goal

Yoga is most commonly known as a physical exercise activity, but it is WAY more than that. In my practice, the physical postures of yoga aren't the main component.

TMS is the mind at work, so we must gently work on the mind. I do this partly through slow and steady movement, breathwork and meditation combined. The physical element of my classes is designed to get you to feel safe in movement, especially if you're struggling with body pain. Gently, slowly, mindfully trusting in our bodies again.

The goal of my classes is to settle the nervous system, soften the mind, calm the body, connect to our emotions and hearts, move somatically and consciously and feel safe. When we can practice this, our nervous systems relax and over time this calmness becomes second nature - on and off the mat. Back in the day, yoga didn't even encompass movement at all, it was predominantly a meditative and breathwork practice, the 'asanas' or poses are relatively recent addition but still with the same goal.

As an example, we will not be focusing on stretching or strengthening the back muscles for those of you with back pain. Focusing on problematic and painful symptom areas can lead to further pain and fear - we don't want that!

The focused, mindful and meditative aspects of yoga are where the magic lies. The main goal - making calm, soothing, 'rest and repair' your new default mode, or at the very least, a mode that you can tap into at will!

Trauma starts in the brain but lands in the body

Many of us here have experienced trauma or chronic stress in our lives, that is now manifesting as pain or other chronic symptoms. And although trauma requires a psychological approach - it is the body that quite literally keeps the score.

A traumatised nervous system doesn't function like it normally should and we shift into survival mode like a deer in headlights, braced for impact. When we learn to listen to our bodies, and create space and safety within ourselves, moving somatically and consciously to focus on the internal experience of movement then we can unlock, release and recover from stored trauma.

My yoga style is a deep connection to our physical bodies and inner space, feeling where emotion lives within us, connecting to all varied parts of ourselves and our systems, noticing, building awareness, feeling the vibration of our cells and the pulse of our body working in unison. Building our capacity to self-regulate, to feel, to grow.

Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.

Next steps and more information

Book a class or join the on-demand family and watch class videos or listen to audio meditations! *Your first 7 days are completely free*. Or check out the bundles I offer on the Courses & Bundles page (Meditations + Nidra).

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