{"id":107063,"date":"2018-09-14T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=107063\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T23:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:55:36","slug":"unraveling-trauma-through-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ko\/journal\/unraveling-trauma-through-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling Trauma Through Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn from\u00a0Jacy Cunningham<\/a>, founder of The Jacy Method, in our\u00a010-Day Wellest Challenge<\/a>, available\u00a0 on Wanderlust TV. <\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The first time I cried\u2014really cried\u2014on my mat was at the original Yoga to the People in Greenwich Village, New York. I didn\u2019t see it coming, and had never experienced anything like it. I was in Pigeon Pose<\/a> (who <\/span>hasn\u2019t<\/span><\/i> lost it at some point in Pigeon, amiright?), and all of a sudden, all the heartache and pain and sadness and anger I\u2019d been carrying for years in my hips welled up and spilled over, leaking salty tears onto the hardwood floor and my outstretched arm. I walked out of that studio feeling as if I had been born again, a new woman. It was as if an anvil had been uprooted from my gut. It was the first time I really fell in love with yoga\u2014as it was probably the first time that my practice had transmuted from a moment on the mat to a tool I could use in my everyday life. <\/span><\/p>\n

We tend to define ourselves by our trauma and our experiences. Part of our practice is to unstick these stuck thoughts, to rewrite the storylines of those narratives, and to move around energy that holds us down. Jacy Cunningham<\/a>, founder of The Jacy Method<\/a>, believes that pushing healthy physical limits and exploring our edges is what not only helps us rewrite, but to fall back in love with ourselves and the world around us. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think motion creates emotion,\u201d says Jacy. \u201cAnd so it’s like when we move, when we get outside and we run, or we climb or we do anything regarding our bodies, there’s a processing of emotion that comes in play. We’re moving as a response to something.\u201d Just what that movement encourages is, of course, different for every person.<\/span><\/p>\n