Trauma-Informed Yoga & Somatic Integration

Our 4 week trauma-informed yoga courses are currently offered by Trauma-Informed Yoga for Clinicians certified facilitator, Sara Mackie. Sara’s classes offer participants a gentle, trauma-informed opportunity to meet their body in a safe space. Trauma-informed yoga classes are centered around the following principles:

• Safety

• Trust

• Choice

• Collaboration

• Transparency

• Empowerment

Postures and meditations presented in this class are mainly restorative and low-impact, allowing participants to practice navigating the nervous system activation connection with the body may bring up. Trauma-informed yoga acknowledges that trauma and stress are stored in our mind-body space and our tissues. Thus, certain postures and forms of instruction may cause a participant to experience hypervigilance, high emotionality, or shut down. This class aims to be a safe space to experience internal fluctuations while teaching self-soothing skills.