Trauma-sensitive yoga as an adjunctive mental health treatment for survivors of intimate partner violence: A qualitative examination.

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Bending without breaking: A narrative review of trauma-sensitive yoga for women with PTSD.

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Trauma-sensitive yoga: A collective case study of women’s trauma recovery from intimate partner violence.

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Trauma sensitive yoga as a complementary treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: A qualitative descriptive analysis.

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Trauma-sensitive yoga interventions and post traumatic stress and depression outcomes among women: A systematic review and analysis of randomized control trials. 

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Trauma-informed yoga: An embodied, cognitive relational framework.

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Treating complex trauma survivors: A trauma-sensitive yoga (TSY)-informed psychotherapeutic approach.

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Yoga for posttraumatic stress disorder – a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Moderators of treatment efficacy in a randomized controlled trial of trauma-sensitive yoga as an adjunctive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Trauma-sensitive yoga for post-traumatic stress disorder in women veterans who experienced military sexual trauma: Interim results from a randomized controlled trial.

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Effects of group trauma-sensitive yoga on inflammatory markers and psychological well-being in women veterans with PTSD: A randomized controlled trial.

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The experience of Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga training on professional practice of mental health professionals and yoga instructors.

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Effectiveness of an extended yoga treatment for women with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Yoga as an intervention for PTSD: A theoretical rationale and review of the literature.

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Management of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms by yoga: An overview. 

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Trauma-sensitive yoga as an adjunctive treatment: The GRACE model. 

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Enhancing the Seeking Safety group intervention with trauma-sensitive yoga practice: A program evaluation. 

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Tailoring trauma-sensitive yoga for high-risk populations in public-sector settings.

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Yoga for PTSD and the role of interoceptive awareness: A preliminary mixed-methods case series study. 

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Yoga for trauma and related mental health problems: A meta-review with clinical and service recommendations. 

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Experiences of trauma-sensitive yoga among inner city youth: A mixed-methods feasibility study. 

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Physical exercise as treatment for PTSD: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Physical activity and exercise as a tool to cure anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Augmenting PTSD treatment with physical activity: Study protocol of the APPART study (Augmentation for PTSD with physical activity in a randomized Trial).

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Exercise augmentation compared with usual care for post-traumatic stress disorder: A randomized controlled trial.

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Moving through the trauma: Dance/movement therapy as a somatic-based intervention for addressing trauma and stress among syrian refugee children.

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Aerobic exercise reduces symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder: A randomized controlled trial.

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A grounded theory of weight lifting as a healing strategy for trauma.

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Exercise intervention in PTSD: A narrative review and rationale for implementation. 

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Augmenting trauma-focused psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder with brief aerobic exercise in Australia: A randomised clinical trial.

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Bridging the trauma-adult attachment connection through somatic movement. 

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Dance/movement therapy in the treatment of post traumatic stress: A reference model.

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“In the sport I am here”: Therapeutic processes and health effects of sport and exercise on PTSD. 

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Trauma clinicians’ views of physical exercise as part of PTSD and complex PTSD treatment: A qualitative study. 

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The effect of physical activity on PTSD. 

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Exercise augmentation of exposure therapy for PTSD: Rationale and pilot efficacy data.

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A 12‐week integrative exercise program improves self‐reported mindfulness and interoceptive awareness in war veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms. 

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Psychobiological responses to aerobic exercise in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Physical fitness in people with posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review. 

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Exercise for PTSD in women veterans: A proof-of-concept study.

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Aerobic exercise and consolidation of fear extinction learning among women with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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The interactive role of exercise and sleep on veteran recovery from symptoms of PTSD.

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Using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy.

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Potential applications of somatic experiencing in applied sport psychology.

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Reintegrating fragmentation of the primitive self: Discussion of somatic experiencing.

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Somatic experiencing – effectiveness and key factors of a body-oriented trauma therapy: A scoping literature review.

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In search of factors that inform how clients experience somatic experiencing therapy. 

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Somatic experiencing for posttraumatic stress disorder: A randomized controlled outcome study. 

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Somatic Experiencing: In the realms of trauma and dissociation—what we can do, when what we do, is really not good enough. 

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The brain-body disconnect: A somatic sensory basis for trauma-related disorders

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A randomized controlled trial of brief somatic experiencing for chronic low back pain and comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

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Psychopathology, dissociation and somatic symptoms in adolescents who were exposed to traumatic experiences. 

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How the body remembers a traumatic event: A case study from Somatic Experiencing perspective.

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The ambivalence about accepting the prevalence somatic symptoms in PTSD: Is PTSD a somatic disorder?

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The traumatized body: Long-term PTSD and its implications for the orientation towards bodily signals. 

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Posttraumatic stress disorder and persistent somatic symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of sense of threat.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder: A theory of perception. 

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Post-traumatic stress disorder moderates the relationship between trauma exposure and chronic pain. 

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Predictors of somatic symptom severity: The role of cumulative history of trauma and adversity in a diverse community sample.

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Childhood trauma and somatic symptoms among psychiatric outpatients: Investigating the role of shame and guilt.

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