Yoga Therapy for Complex Trauma

Michelle Fury and Ayala Homossany have crafted an essential, experience-driven guide to yoga therapy for complex trauma for all age groups, including children and adolescents. Drawing on years of hands-on work with clients, they provide accessible, trauma-sensitive tools that yoga professionals can immediately use to support healing. A must-read for anyone in the field. – Jonathan Rosenthal, MD, Neurologist, Yoga Student, Host of the Neuroscience and Yoga ConferenceWritten with warmth, depth, and fierce clarity, this book is a gift to yoga therapists. It creates a thoughtful lens for understanding complex trauma, grounded in experience and story. Brave, beautiful, and absolutely essential. – Rachel Krentzman PT, C-IAYT, CHT, Physiotherapist, Yoga Therapist & PsychotherapistThis is a book I wish I had read before I started my yoga therapy practice, because most yoga therapists will eventually encounter students with complex trauma, but few have the training to recognize these symptoms, much less to address them. Paradoxically, however, most yoga therapists will best appreciate the insights from this book only after they have experiences with this with their own students. Hence recommended for both new and experienced yoga therapists, especially those who want to learn from and work with psycho-therapists. – John Kepner, Emeritus Executive Director, International Association of Yoga TherapistsA clear, compassionate resource for clinicians and yoga therapists. Fury and Homossany offer an integrative, trauma-informed framework that supports regulation, embodiment, and healing across the lifespan. – Shawnee Thornton Hardy, C-IAYT, SEP, Author of Yoga Therapy for Children & Teens with Complex Needs and Asanas for Autism and Special NeedsI have spent my career researching the best available treatments for Complex PTSD which includes the integration somatic therapies and therapeutic yoga held within a supportive therapeutic relationship. Michelle Fury and Ayala Homossany have masterfully brought these fields together in Yoga for Complex Trauma with a depth of understanding of CPTSD while providing practical tools along with case examples. This is an invaluable resource that helps us to bridge the mental health field with ancient yogic and ayurvedic wisdom traditions. These approaches radically and meaningfully change how we address the repercussions of chronic traumatic stress. This book is so deeply needing in our current world. – Arielle Schwartz, PhD, author of The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual, The Complex PTSD Workbook, and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery

Michelle Fury (Author) Michelle Fury caught the yoga bug in 1992. It had such an impact on her life that she started saying, “Yoga is my therapy.” Several yoga certifications and a Masters Degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy later, Michelle is now a yoga therapist at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She holds her Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) status through the State of Colorado. She has a specialty in trauma therapy, as well as extensive training and experience using mindfulness-based therapy models such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). She has been involved in several yoga research projects. Her work with children in the field of yoga therapy as a psychotherapeutic intervention has been featured in a number of local and national publications including Yoga Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and Social Work Today. She wrote a feature article for the Spring 2013 issue of Yoga Therapy Today.

Ayala Homossany (Author) Ayala Homossany is a yoga therapist, educator, and co-author of Yoga Therapy for Complex Trauma: Working with Child, Adolescent, and Adult Clients (Singing Dragon, 2025). With over two decades of experience, she specialises in trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness for children, adolescents, families, and educators.

Ayala holds a Yoga Therapy Diploma from The Minded Institute, where she also serves as a supervisor. She is a Senior Yoga Teacher Trainer accredited by BWY and Yoga Alliance US, with additional studies in restorative yoga, somatic movement, and mindfulness practices. Her work is grounded in extensive training with the Himalayan Institute, as well as with leaders in anxiety, depression, and self-compassion.

Her long-standing practice in London schools, studios, and community centres has seen her develop and deliver targeted interventions for children and teens facing trauma, bullying, ADHD, and ASD. She is known for creating emotionally safe spaces through invitational language, self-regulation tools, and creative engagement.

Ayala is the author and co-creator of the award-winning Enchanted Wonders A-Z Yoga Cards and founder of Empowering Children Through Yoga & Creativity, a respected training programme that blends therapeutic principles with imaginative practice.

She lives in London with her husband, where they’ve raised three sons who continue to inspire her journey.