When I started healing from trauma, I thought something was wrong with me. I didn’t realize my nervous system wasn’t broken, it was doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect me.

Kundalini Yoga gave me a new lens. The breathwork, movement, and mantras helped me reconnect with my body and soften the patterns I thought I’d be stuck with forever. For the first time, I felt my nervous system begin to settle. I wasn’t escaping, I was arriving.

There’s this idea that healing only happens in silence or stillness. But for many of us, especially those living with trauma, stillness feels like danger. Kundalini Yoga gives us another way. Through movement, rhythm, and conscious breath, it meets our body where it is and invites it back into safety.

As I kept practicing, I noticed real change. I stopped jumping to please others. I stopped freezing when things got hard. I didn’t have to perform calm, I could feel it for real.

This practice didn’t fix me because I was broken. It reminded me that I was rebuilding something sacred.

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