Finding Peace Within Shattered Pieces - Simranjeet Kaur

In her book Finding Peace Within Shattered Pieces, former London Detective Police Officer Simranjeet Kaur combines the necessary awareness, clarity, and commitment to offer the reader a healing journey with the support of yoga and meditation.

She shares ideas, insights and inspiration to help you make your own choices and do the work of healing effectively and compassionately.

This book consists of a 40-day program with diverse types of yoga and meditation, so you can practice at home and gently allow your healing journey to begin and develop. It also brings key information about sexual violence, what to do when witnessing or suffering first-hand; how to seek professional help; and find support from legal entities.

This is a gentle and compassionate tool for anyone who has suffered from any kind of sexual violence, as well as post-traumatic stress and secondary traumatic stress. The 40-day program works to remove body blocks, release fear and accumulated stress, tune the liver, kidneys and adrenal glands, open the heart and develop trust. It can also be a great resource for trainers and teachers when developing special programs for their students.

• A great tool to gently heal emotional and physical pain and reconnect with your inner self
• A resource in your recovery and healing journey using yoga, meditation and ancient healing techniques
• A source of primary information regarding sexual violence as well as a manancial of ideas, insights and inspiration
• A great resource for trainers and teachers when developing special programs for their students.

"An approach that would empower the individual to come through their blocks, rise out of the darkness of despair, and live a life filled with positive self-worth and joy."
— Shiv Charan Singh

Paperback, 220 pages
With illustrations by Janis Souza
Dimensions approx.: 7 x 9.18 inches
Language: English

Simranjeet Kaur, aka Jackie Wakeford-Smith, joined the Metropolitan Police Service in London in the late 1980s to serve and protect the public in the city's streets when very few women did. As part of her policing career she was trained as a specialised Sexual Offences Interview Technique Officer (SOIT). Later in her career, she led a team of detectives, dedicated solely to the investigation of rape and serious sexual assaults. Her training, knowledge and experience was developed over many years of dealing with individuals, as both victims and perpetrators.
During her years of service she dealt with over one thousand cases, each of them left its own imprint and impact on Simranjeet's physical and subtle bodies, which resulted in her suffering from secondary traumatic stress. This reminded her of the famous principle of Dr. Edmond Locard, a 19th-century French criminologist, which states that every contact leaves a trace.
In 2015, as she got close to retirement, the compounded stress led to a collapse of her body and mind. That's when she started to practice Kundalini Yoga for her own healing process. Her immersion into the practice later led her to becoming a Kundalini Yoga teacher and trainer.   During her recovery and healing journey, Jackie saw the parallels between her trauma and those of the victims of sexual violence.
Having used Kundalini Yoga for her own recovery process from prolonged secondary traumatic stress, Simranjeet was inspired to share these amazing yogic tools in the form of this beautiful book: a 40-day program using yoga and meditation to find peace within shattered pieces. Simranjeet Kaur has been practicing, studying and teaching Kundalini Yoga since 2009.