Date of Award
Spring 2022
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Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Yoga Studies
School or College
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Christopher Key Chapple
Abstract
Through perspectives from neuroscience, transpersonal psychology, and transcendentalist philosophy, the art of yoga is proposed as a supporting modality for healing through complex trauma. Personal narrative and original paintings further speak to a process of coming back Home. Where trauma strips one of self, yoga breeds connection back to Self. Yoga is union of individual consciousness with universal consciousness. Yogic philosophy invites one into a space of grey, somewhere between object and subject, physical and spiritual, tangible and ineffable. It is there one comes to find healing by sitting back as a pure observer. In the journey of trauma uncovery, one comes to meet an embodied sense of safety that prevails across levels of body, mind, and soul. The stars begin to shine once again in the universe held within.
Recommended Citation
Gargiulo, xyloh, "The Solace of Grey: Yogic Perspectives on Healing Through Complex Trauma" (2022). LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations. 1100.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/1100
