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What if the kindest cue you give is the one you don’t make? Liz Albanis continues her conversation with trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator and empowerment coach Kristen Klipp. To unpack how yoga spaces can either calm or inflame the nervous system. Key Topics:What teachers can do to lean towards being supportive. From the first welcome to the final rest, we focus on consent, language, and environment as the quiet architecture of safety.How consent tokens let students change their minds privately as their bodies shift moment to moment. Directive cues with invitational language that gives back agency and reduces performance pressure. Why staying on your mat can soothe hypervigilanceHow naming your movements prevents startle responsesWhy room setup, especially visibility of exits, matters more than perfect alignment. Yoga props, including how straps and immobilising restoratives can echo restraint, and outline kinder alternatives that still support mobility and comfort.Generational traumaKristen’s holistic toolkit that blends trauma-sensitive yoga, coaching, and chakra-based energy work. Congestion in the root chakra mirrors lived instability.Grounding shapes and guided meditations may help move stuck emotions. The challenge common yoga teacher self-talk. Wanting students to match our flow, as a subtle control reflex. Whether you teach or you practise, this is a field guide to agency on the mat. Fewer assumptions, more options, and a bias toward predictability, kindness, and self-trust. If the goal is regulation and reconnection, then every cue, prop, and pathway can serve that aim. Listen, reflect, and try one small change in your next class or practice, then tell us what shifted.About the guest: Kristin Klipp is a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator, Empowerment Coach, and Chakra Energy Healer. Kristin has been helping people for 9 years to discover their intuition, heal from trauma, and lead the life they were meant to live. Her company, Truth Lives Within, offers holistic healing sessions that allow clients to find their own inner wisdom and heal their wounds. Kristin has been dedicated to healing trauma after seeing how it has affected her relationships with her family. Kristin has seen how trauma is often swept under the rug and she is getting loud about trauma with her podcast, Get Loud. Find out more about Kristin by checking out her website, https://www.truthliveswithin.com.Facebook: Instagram: YouTube: TikTok: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love the show? We’d love a review!Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Download your free resources now to start practising yoga at home.💲 🎤 📹 💻 Want to make video and audio editing quicker and simpler? Get 50% off the first 2 months of the Descript Creator Monthly Plan. Topics suggestions. Interested in being a guest or know someone who might be Fill out the podcast form on my website.Instagram: Youtube