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Introduction to the Experience of Gentle Yoga for Trauma Survivors : June 10, 2017
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Saturday, June 10 - 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Led by Danielle Robillard D'Amico and Heather Parker
This workshop strives to create a safe space for trauma survivors to experience gentle yoga. For some, yoga may serve as a supplemental support in the healing process for trauma. The focus is on helping students explore possible ways to care for themselves in a yoga class and to provide an environment that is sensitive to potential triggers.
Read more about the workshop and instructors below.
Led by Danielle Robillard D'Amico and Heather Parker
This workshop strives to create a safe space for trauma survivors to experience gentle yoga. For some, yoga may serve as a supplemental support in the healing process for trauma. The focus is on helping students explore possible ways to care for themselves in a yoga class and to provide an environment that is sensitive to potential triggers.
Read more about the workshop and instructors below.
More About the Workshop
Yoga that is attuned to the possible needs of those who have experienced trauma may incorporate gentle, respectful and trauma-sensitive language. Students are invited to notice and honor internal experiences and sensations in addition to their needs in the moment, without judgment or expectation. Mindful experience of movement and breath, as well as awareness of sensation, is a focus. Rather than commands and physical assists to direct specific postures, attention to safe alignment and form is provided through the use of verbal assists and suggested options, free from physical contact. Students are invited to experiment being present in their own bodies, and with sensation and movement, in an exploratory, curious manner. The use of such an approach may allow for a greater sense of control of one’s body, a sense of time, as well as access to choices. Yoga postures are offered in an adaptable manner and at a gentle pace that promote availability to all students, while helping students to honor their limits and boundaries within their physical form.
This workshop is not intended to serve as therapy, a support group, direct healing or in place of medical or therapeutic intervention. While the leaders have training in mental health, their role during this workshop is strictly limited to that of yoga instructor. Please be aware that participation may might elicit strong feelings or memories and that it may be helpful to use it as an adjective component to ongoing intervention or existing external support. It may also be useful to consider your readiness for experience in such a workshop, which will include other yoga students who are participating in the workshop. This workshop is scheduled to meet one time only, which limits the ability to address many of the complexities of experiencing yoga for trauma survivors. Yoga students of all levels are welcome and no prior yoga experience is necessary.
This workshop is not intended to serve as therapy, a support group, direct healing or in place of medical or therapeutic intervention. While the leaders have training in mental health, their role during this workshop is strictly limited to that of yoga instructor. Please be aware that participation may might elicit strong feelings or memories and that it may be helpful to use it as an adjective component to ongoing intervention or existing external support. It may also be useful to consider your readiness for experience in such a workshop, which will include other yoga students who are participating in the workshop. This workshop is scheduled to meet one time only, which limits the ability to address many of the complexities of experiencing yoga for trauma survivors. Yoga students of all levels are welcome and no prior yoga experience is necessary.
Meet the Instructors
Danielle Robillard D'Amico
Danielle was introduced to yoga in 2009 and received her 200-hour teacher training at Burlington Yoga in 2016. Her practice focuses on the experience of yoga as a path toward inner peace and balance as well as overall well being. In her personal life and professional role as a psychologist, Danielle has come to understand and honor the links between mind and body, that are often accessible through yoga. She experiences the practice as a possible means to develop physical and emotional attunement, acceptance and curiosity, both on and off the mat. Danielle seeks to create a safe, calm and predictable space that honors her own subjective experiences, as well as those of her students. Her approach to yoga is one that invites awareness, exploration and acceptance of inner experience, through attention to breath and sensation.
Danielle was introduced to yoga in 2009 and received her 200-hour teacher training at Burlington Yoga in 2016. Her practice focuses on the experience of yoga as a path toward inner peace and balance as well as overall well being. In her personal life and professional role as a psychologist, Danielle has come to understand and honor the links between mind and body, that are often accessible through yoga. She experiences the practice as a possible means to develop physical and emotional attunement, acceptance and curiosity, both on and off the mat. Danielle seeks to create a safe, calm and predictable space that honors her own subjective experiences, as well as those of her students. Her approach to yoga is one that invites awareness, exploration and acceptance of inner experience, through attention to breath and sensation.
Heather Parker, RYT-200, Sensorimotor Psychotherapist
Heather draws inspiration from the confluence of yoga and neurology, the ways in which yoga supports the nervous system, resulting in the reduction of stress and anxiety levels, the enhancement of mood, and decreased symptoms of depression. She also explores the spiritual aspects of yoga, yoga as cultivation of innate nature.
Heather draws inspiration from the confluence of yoga and neurology, the ways in which yoga supports the nervous system, resulting in the reduction of stress and anxiety levels, the enhancement of mood, and decreased symptoms of depression. She also explores the spiritual aspects of yoga, yoga as cultivation of innate nature.