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Blissed Academy Signature Course
TMJ, Trauma, and Yoga: Transforming TMJD
with Trauma-Informed Yoga, Bodywork, and Mindfulness
Become aware. Connect to the TMJ. Heal holistically.
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Does your jaw click, pop, or lock? Know someone whose jaw does?
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Suffer from headaches/migraines?
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Are you a yoga teacher, bodyworker, or mental health professional who works with trauma survivors with jaw problems?
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Ever hear "Relax your jaw" in a yoga or mindfulness class and wondered why or even how?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, this course is perfect for you! You will learn a solid anatomical background of the TMJ, what influences it, how it functions or dysfunctions, and holistic ways to heal it in a trauma-informed format.
Over 27+ years in development!
Included in this course:
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Complete Teaching Presentation Slideshow to help you understand the TMJ
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A 75-minute video of original yoga therapy exercises, stretches, meditations/affirmations, broken down into parts, specifically for the TMJ and people who deal with TMJD. Can be done as an entire practice, or you can jump to the parts you prefer.
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Bonus material: 90 minute video of Bhrigha's online presentation and group discussion to the Yoga 4 Trauma Community hosted by Lisa Danylchuk,LMFT, E-RYT.
“I can’t recommend this workshop enough!!
So amazing, so relevant, and so very enlightening.
Thank you for bringing this to the Yoga for Trauma community!"
Lisa Danylchuk, LMFT, E-RYT
Founder of The Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery
Author of Yoga for Trauma Recovery
My Journey with TMJD
As an active and not-so-graceful kid despite dance classes, I had many injuries: broken arm at 4, lots of falls and scrapes, twisted ankles, horrible growing pains from flat feet, hit by a car while riding my bike, a back dive into the pool gone wrong, a minor car accident as a teen, emotional trauma from multiple issues, afraid to speak up...
When I started massage therapy school in 1994, my jaw popped twice on the left and 3 times on the right, as it appeared to unhinge like a snake, just when I opened my mouth. Then it would reverse in a zigzag closing. I hated eating in front of people. I had horrible frequent headaches and I remember days when my jaw would lock and I couldn't open my mouth, only able to take nourishment through a straw. Often I'd just not eat and had digestive issues too. I thought this was just part of adult life. After my first couple months of massage therapy school, I started what was supposed to be a year of dental therapy with a custom bite guard that was shaved down each week to reposition my jaw.
From surviving to thriving...
Enter a TMJ Craniosacral specialist to teach us a bit about the jaw and my entire massage class unanimously voted me for the demonstration. 60 minutes later my mouth guard did not fit. My dentist was amazed when I told him what I did. I knew then that I was meant to help others suffering from TMJD or Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction and started studying with the specialist who helped me right away. I received more treatments from him and was out of the daily wear of the mouth guard in 3 months instead of a year,.
And so started my fascination with this miraculous joint. I've since helped hundreds of clients (maybe thousands, I didn't count) to heal holistically from TMJD, I am certified as an Intra-oral therapist in WA, specialize in Craniosacral and Myofascial therapies, and am a Trauma-Informed Registered Yoga Teacher. I love to nerd out about anatomy, the jaw, the pelvis - they are connected, you know! - and believe that the sphenoid is the COOLEST bone in the body. I'd love to help you too! Find out more in the course.
