Save the Dates: Trauma Informed Yoga for Everyone
A Snapshot:
Join Diane Smith, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Yoga Instructor, for this all-levels, four-class series designed to help address and heal all kinds of trauma, no matter the magnitude, no matter when it happened.
When: Four consecutive Wednesdays beginning on September 6; 11:30 AM to 12:45 PM
Where: Lotus Center
Exact dates: September 6, 13, 20 & 27
Cost: $10 drop-in; $8 with a Lotus class card
No pre-registration required. Attend one, some, or all four classes in the series. Everyone is welcome.
Details:
Trauma Informed Yoga for Everyone (a four-class series)
with Diane Smith, LCSW, CYT
Trauma has touched most of our lives in one way or another, either through our personal experiences or those of our loved ones. Its impact can be overt, as in full blown symptoms of PTSD, or more covertly can show up as low-level anxiety, physical tension or hyper-vigilance. Often it leaves us with an anxious mind, or worse, feeling unsafe in our environment or in our own bodies.
Trauma erodes a sense of the sacred in our lives. It does this by fostering beliefs of not being okay, not being good enough, of feeling separate and disconnected from ourselves and others. Fortunately, many types of trauma therapy are now familiar to most individuals and available within the mental health treatment realm. Yet, we now know that trauma does not only affect the mind but resides also in the body and can exist below our conscious awareness. Consequently, Yoga is another natural way to move beyond these difficult symptoms and self-limiting narratives, as it reconnects us with our innate goodness and a sense of inner peace.
In this proposed trauma informed workshop, we will practice traditions of Hatha yoga including pranayama, mantra, chanting and asanas to move us toward feeling calm and reconnected with our deeper selves. In addition, numerous strategies to engage the parasympathetic nervous system will be included drawing from neuroscience, trauma therapy approaches and Polyvagal theory (calming of the Vagus nerve). It is hoped that this combination of diverse approaches will give participants a wide array of calming and coping strategies to carry off of the mat and into daily life.
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