Atira Tan invites you to join her in restoring boundaries through somatic experience and creativity.
Through this guided tutorial, Atira shares a somatic exercise designed to cultivate a sense of safety internally, by understanding the premise of danger perceived or otherwise triggered by trauma.
Atira explains trauma is not just an event but something that can be experienced over time such as neglect, or an event that happened or continues to happen. It can also be an event that happened too fast, too soon and is too overwhelming. These experiences often leave you with no sense of agency and a loss of control causing us to stop being present and lose connection to ourselves and the environment around us. In this guided tutorial Atira explains how the autonomic nervous system reacts to trauma and explains how the 4 F’s of the autonomic nervous system respond; fight, flight, freeze and fawn.
Atira invites you to understand your disconnect and how we often override our emotions and what feels right in order to survive. Once we understand this we can learn to attend to the part of us that need it with compassion and love. Use this guided somatic inquiry to access skills to explore the idea of competent protectors either real or imagined and access the ability to function in happier healthier ways by following your own inner wisdom, guidance and listening to your body.
About Atira Tan
A TEDx speaker, activist, somatic trauma specialist and educator, #1 Best Selling Author, and yoga teacher & group facilitator, Atira Tan, is a powerful agent of transformation and change.
She is the founding director of Art to Healing, an Australian charity that supports the trauma recovery of child sex slaves in Asia. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, holds an M.A in Clinical Art Therapy, a B.A. in Fine Arts and Transpersonal Art Therapy and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at EGS in Switzerland. From the slums in Nepal to the Amazonian jungles in Peru, Atira has touched the lives of thousands of women, men, and children around the world, supporting them through her 19 years of experience in various somatic and creative trauma recovery approaches. Passionate about creating safer spaces for everybody, and bringing healing and awareness to the “shadowy” areas of life, Atira has worked as a trauma-informed integration specialist in retreat centers such as the Temple of the Way of Light and is currently the head of integration at AYA Healing Retreats.
