Trauma-informed yoga is defined as accessible and inclusive embodiment practices including movement, meditation and breath, that encourage participants to reclaim their agency through choice and nervous-system regulation.

Our classes focus on possibility and choice, while addressing the emotional and physical symptoms of trauma through resourcing or tools for managing stress responses.

Trauma-informed yoga teachers have a sensitivity and awareness of trauma and understand its impact on the entire mind-body system. We fully integrate that knowledge into our teaching practices to move students towards well-being and help them to actively resist re-traumatization.

Resources are critical in trauma-informed yoga and can be understood as the internal and external tools that help you to feel present, calm and grounded. In this state you feel a sense of support and safety, so you are able to move through difficult or challenging emotions and experiences (@anntheanxietycoach)

EveryBODY! Yoga is not only for able-bodied, skinny, cis-gendered White women — yoga is for everybody. Yoga is not a workout, it is a spiritual practice with physical health benefits. Yoga is not all about asana (postures). Meditation and pranayama (breath) play a major role in the practice. Yoga is a gift and we should respect its origins. Invitation is a cornerstone of trauma-informed yoga and we are ALL invited to listen and learn from our own inner teacher.