Trauma informed yoga, inside real therapy
I am a 500 hour certified trauma informed yoga educator with about ten years of teaching experience, and I weave gentle, invitational movement and breath into counseling when it serves your healing. This is yoga in a therapeutic context, not a fitness class.
Why movement belongs in trauma recovery
Trauma is not only remembered. It is held: in shoulders that guard, hips that hold onto past emotion, breath that stays shallow so nothing gets stirred. Sometimes the most direct route to what words cannot reach is a slow, chosen movement and a full exhale.
In our sessions, yoga shows up as small invitations. A grounding posture when hard emotions come up. A gentle opening in your heart when it feels heavy. A practice of noticing what a stretch brings up and processing it together. You do not need flexibility, experience, special clothes, or a mat.
Incorporating movement is always your choice, and the structure of our sessions may vary based on what is needed moment to moment.
A decade of teaching & supporting clients to heal through the body
I completed 500 hours of trauma informed yoga & mindfulness training and have taught for about ten years, including work with trauma survivors. That experience shapes how I pace sessions, how I read what a body is ready for, and how I keep movement safe, optional, and useful inside counseling.
Related: Mindfulness based therapy | Somatic therapy | My background
You do not have to talk your way into healing. You can move there, one breath at a time.
Trauma informed yoga questions
Is this a yoga class?
No. It is counseling that can include gentle movement and breath when helpful. There are no flows to follow and nothing to perform; some clients use movement often, others rarely.
I am not flexible. Does that matter?
Not at all. Therapeutic yoga here is about noticing and choice, not shapes. Most of it can be done seated in a chair.
Does trauma informed yoga work over video?
Yes. You move in your own space while I guide and track with you, and being at home often makes it easier to let the body respond honestly.
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