Founder and CEO of The Minded Institute, Heather Mason, was invited to speak at The Holistic Attachment Summit, a free online event which aims to provide mental health professionals with the most essential ideas in attachment theory, research, and how they can be applied to create deep and lasting healing for clients — enabling you to be at the forefront of evidence-based care.
Heather’s session is on: The Practice of Yoga as an Enhanced Therapy in Transforming Attachment Styles: A Neuroscientific Perspective.
Since its ancient origins, the practice of yoga has been about creating a sense of connectedness between the body and mind and the self and the external world and about calming the mind. It is therefore unsurprising that yoga is being integrated into psychological therapies. Further psychological and neurophysiological research supports yoga’s value improving mental health both as an adjunct therapy and as a stand-alone treatment.
In this session, Heather Mason will discuss the rationale for yoga’s capacity to transform attachment relationships. She will:
- begin with an overall review of yoga’s potential efficacy in this domain
- discuss the neural correlates of avoidant and insecure attachment
- share neuroscientific and psychological evidence of the discrete mechanisms through which yoga may lead to shifting attachment styles.
In addition to Heather’s session, you’ll also learn from experts such as:
— Bessel van der Kolk (Trauma & Attachment)
— Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy)
— Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems)
— Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory)
— Dan Siegel (The New Science of Personality & Attachment)
— Laurel Parnell (Attachment Focused EMDR)
— Steven Hayes (Psychological Flexibility and Attachment)
— Janina Fisher (Traumatic & Disorganised Attachment)
— The late Sue Johnson (EFT & Attachment)
— Paul Gilbert OBE (Compassion & Attachment)
— Bonnie Badenoch (Interpersonal Neurobiology).
The summit will take place from 28th Oct – 1st Nov 2024 and tickets are free for a limited time! After this date, you can download the sessions from the summit at an accessible price. If you are interested in watching the summit, please register here.
