specializing in Trauma Sensitive Yoga.
Since I was young, I haven’t always known what my role was in these spaces, but I’ve come to understand it’s often changing and evolving.
I acknowledge the identities I hold as a white (Scandinavian, English, Welsh descent), cisgender, bisexual, able-bodied, single-parent, college educated woman living with some neurodivergence and invisible disability, I am learning how to both acknowledge the privilege I hold within dominant culture while also honoring my own survivorship of harmful systems.
I’m understanding and embodying more and more each day that there must be attention paid to the root cause of complex trauma within toxic dominant culture and the harm systemic oppression wrecks on relationships with ourselves and each other.
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.
- DESMOND TUTU
I have a deeper understanding and sensitivity of trauma that students may come into a public yoga class with. I gained ways to adapt language, class set up, and my physical presence to create a space that is as safe as possible. I highly recommend this training, especially for new and experienced yoga teachers.
