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Introduction to Gentle Yoga for Trauma Survivors: Four Week Series - September 9, 16, 23, & 30
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Saturday September 9, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Saturday September 16, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Saturday September 23, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Saturday September 30, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Led by Danielle Robillard D'Amico and Heather Parker
This four-week series 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.
Saturday September 16, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Saturday September 23, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Saturday September 30, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Led by Danielle Robillard D'Amico and Heather Parker
This four-week series 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.
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 promotes availability to all students, while helping students to honor their limits and boundaries within their physical form.
The first class will focus largely on introducing some of the ways that yoga may be beneficial for trauma survivors, through both didactics and experiential practice. It is strongly recommended that students attend the first session on September 9, as many key concepts will be introduced at this time. Subsequent classes will build on each other, allowing space for growing comfort with the practice of yoga and the many variations that may be useful for those who have experienced trauma.
While participation in all four classes is not mandatory, it is highly recommended, so that students may develop a growing sense of security within the group and with the overall experience.
This series 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 series, which will include other yoga students who are participating in the series. While this series consists of four classes, there is a limited 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.
Plea email us if you have any questions
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 promotes availability to all students, while helping students to honor their limits and boundaries within their physical form.
The first class will focus largely on introducing some of the ways that yoga may be beneficial for trauma survivors, through both didactics and experiential practice. It is strongly recommended that students attend the first session on September 9, as many key concepts will be introduced at this time. Subsequent classes will build on each other, allowing space for growing comfort with the practice of yoga and the many variations that may be useful for those who have experienced trauma.
While participation in all four classes is not mandatory, it is highly recommended, so that students may develop a growing sense of security within the group and with the overall experience.
This series 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 series, which will include other yoga students who are participating in the series. While this series consists of four classes, there is a limited 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.
Plea email us if you have any questions