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LCCNC 2025 Spring Conference: Minority Mental Health Symposium

React vs. Regulate - Yoga for Your Nervous System

Marilyn Granger, MD, C-IAYT
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic nervous system (ANS).

  • Identify the basic principles of Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory.

  • Identify and apply the eight limbs of yoga.

Educational Goal

To increase knowledge of the application of yoga practices in mental health care, specifically as applied to trauma and ANS regulation.

Description

The nervous system can be anywhere along the spectrum of fear to safety, and achronic state of fear leads to physical and mental health problems. Finding balance in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) can be a challenge. Resiliency is the ability of the ANS to return to a state of safety after a stressor has passed. Trauma is defined as the body being stuck in a dysregulated nervous system. Somatic treatments that focus on the body are now being used as part of an integrated approach with traditional psychotherapeutic treatments for calming a disregulated ANS. Yoga practices are well suited to aid in moving a dysregulated ANS toward safety and enhancing resilience to stressors. There will be a powerpoint presentation as well as an experiential component. Loose clothing is recommended.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Marilyn Granger, MD, C-IAYT
Marilyn Granger, MD, C-IAYT is a retired psychiatrist of over 30 years of clinical practice and a yoga practitioner of over 20 years. She received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and her psychiatry training from Brown University. Dr. Granger is founder of Somalumina Yoga, LLC. She initially completed her 300 hour yoga teacher training at Triad Yoga Institute in Greensboro, N.C. and then went on to complete her 500 hour yoga teacher training from the American Viniyoga Institute. She also completed the American Viniyoga Institute yoga therapist training. She is a certified yoga therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT). She has a level II training in Emotional Freedom Technique. She has explored transpersonal realms through Stan Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork. Dr. Granger’s path has also intersected with shamanic practices. Her ventures from the transpersonal to the science of medicine provides her with a rich perspective of body, mind, and spirit relationship. She likes to explore ways to apply the ancient teachings of yoga to the modern world of medicine and wellbeing.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Licensed Clinical Counselors of North Carolina (LCCNC)