But I haven’t encountered many trauma-informed yoga classes that aren’t focused on removing major efforting. The physical practice of yoga holds tremendous capacity to provide self-awareness and ...
For years, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and mental health counselors have practiced trauma-informed care, an approach that acknowledges that people have traumatic experiences and that ...
What does liberation look and feel like? This is a question that requires tapping into our imagination, and it’s one that Yoga Behind Bars—an organization offering embodied movement and meditation ...
For Henry Ellis, the yoga class at the Winnebago County Jail is a sanctuary. Once a week, the 39-year-old inmate knows he can head to the class and for one hour and he can find peace. "It's a chance ...
The Moving to End Sexual Assault program is offering trauma-informed yoga classes, providing a safe environment for trauma victims to connect with their minds and bodies, at their Lafayette offices.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- A Florida nonprofit helping people who feel they may have been left behind by society is working to expand even more. Yoga 4 Change teaches what they call ...
DULUTH — Kyle Heyesen sat before a packed room of more than 30 seated, socked and barefooted people. Their foam blocks, blankets and water bottles were sprinkled throughout Svälja Yoga’ s upper-level ...
A community yoga class is being offered for trauma survivors in Northwest Indiana. Circle of Hope classes are confidential, donation-based classes that combine a supportive group-sharing experience ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Around 100 yoga enthusiasts gathered at Overton Park Shell Monday for a yoga class designed to help with grief and trauma. It was part of the free Monday Twilight Yoga & Pilate ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It can be intimidating to move to a new country and start a new life but a local organization is helping to relieve some of that stress. The stress of losing your sense of home and ...