Rape victim tells her story in hopes of fighting stigma, shame

Sarah Super closed her eyes, tilted her head and reached over her shoulder as a student in her trauma-sensitive yoga class mirrored her movements.

“You choose how much pressure,” she said, gently massaging her shoulder during a session at a St. Paul crisis center. “It’s your hand on your shoulder.”

Providing choices is paramount to Super, who allows her students to engage in less demanding exercise or to simply get up and leave the room if they wish. It’s a key tenet of trauma-sensitive yoga, and a frame of mind the 26-year-old Super advocates as she recovers from her own physical and emotional trauma.

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/298990551.html