Print Comment

Targeted Search

Use the filters to browse the information we have available or to narrow your search results for a specific audience (e.g. caregivers, military, children), a preferred type of content (e.g. videos, blogs, articles), or by topics of interest (e.g. family concerns, legal issues, symptoms).
You have selected:Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)Video
295 Results

Marty Yura: What Research and Experiential Evidence Say About the Efficacy of Yoga for PTSD

Man doing yoga warrior pose in a sunlit room.

There may not be definitive quantitative data to support the efficacy of yoga for military members, especially those with PTSD, but there is a lot of research and experiential evidence that shows that yoga can make a significant difference in the healing process. Yoga helps to calm the central nervous system, so after even practicing a short time, people with PTSD may start to sleep better, feel less trauma-related physical pain, and experience a greater sense of quietude.

Marty Yura: The Healing Power of Group Yoga

Though everybody is dealing with their own mind and body during a yoga class, there is something powerful about practicing in a group. When teaching veterans with PTSD in the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program, Mr. Yura brings a holistic approach to his teaching. Focusing less on traditional poses and more on somatics — a way of re-educating the way our brain senses and moves the muscles — he helps the group develop a series of movements from which they can readily feel the benefits and use post-program to contribute to their own well-being.

Marty Yura: The Approach to Teaching Yoga to Veterans with PTSD

For veterans in the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program, Marty Yura teaches yoga with a focus on heightening the awareness of what a person is feeling in their body. With a focus on somatics — a way of re-educating the way our brain senses and moves the muscles — instead of traditional poses, he helps his students loosen their connective tissue, open neural pathways for greater energy flow to the body, and enhance their awareness of what they are feeling inside their bodies. "In some ways, this is a process of unlearning habituated movements that don't contribute to their health," he says.

Marty Yura: Yoga Is an Integral Part of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program

Since it's inception, yoga has been an integral part of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program. During the intensive two-week program, veterans take one hour of yoga three times a week where they learn to release physical and emotional pain. Mr. Yura says that although some students are more engaged than others, it is rewarding for him to see the extent of people's responses to the practice, including embracing what they have learned to use post-program like specific movements for lower back release, breathing techniques, and strategies for calming the nervous system during a reactive situation.

Marty Yura: The Force of Generational Trauma

Changes in Family Roles After Traumatic Brain Injury

The son of Holocaust survivors, Marty Yura believes deeply that trauma lingers, that it resides in the body ... in our cells, and that though it diminishes with time, the impact of that trauma is transferred generationally. His experience in the military as well as the fact of being the son of Holocaust survivors informs the way he teaches yoga to veterans.

Ask the Expert - Brian Klassen, PhD: Finding the Right Therapist Can Be Crucial for Treating PTSD

What Should Couples Expect from Counseling After a Brain Injury?

I keep hearing that I need cognitive behavioral therapy—talk therapy— to treat my symptoms of PTSD like hyper-arousal, depression, avoiding life, and being irritable all the time with my friends and family. Frankly, I don’t want to talk to someone for weeks and months. My wife keeps pressuring me, but the thought of therapy makes me feel weaker than I already am. Why do I feel this way? I’m not sure what to do. Dr. Klassen answers your questions about mental health treatment.

Ask the Expert - Brian Klassen, PhD: What Are the Top Reasons People in the Military Develop PTSD?

What are the primary reason veterans and service members develop PTSD? Dr. Klassen, an expert on mental health issues and treatment, says that, to date, there is no one concrete formula outlining the primary reasons why people develop PTSD, and there may never be. PTSD is a complex condition and affects each person differently based on many factors such as an individual’s genetics, early-life experiences, traumas in combat, culture, and coping mechanisms among others.