Trauma-Informed Yoga Group
An 8-Week Embodied Practice Series
This 8-week series offers a trauma-informed approach to yoga designed to support in developing a deeper connection to yourself and a more compassionate relationship with your body.
Unlike a traditional studio class, this space emphasizes choice, attunement, internal awareness and responsiveness to your body and mind’s needs. The intention is not performance, flexibility, or intensity — but cultivating safety, presence, and agency in your physical and emotional space.
This is not group therapy. It is a psychologically informed movement practice held in a steady and respectful container.
What Makes It Trauma-Informed
This series prioritizes:
Choice rather than correction
Invitation rather than demand
Internal awareness over external form
Predictable structure and steady pacing
Clear, consent-based language
You are always encouraged to move in ways that feel accessible and self-directed. You are always empowered to choose what honors your own body’s wisdom. There is no pressure to push beyond your capacity, and no expectation that your body should look a certain way.
The focus is not on doing more — but on listening more carefully to your own experience.
Slowing down is not always immediately soothing. For some, stillness or increased awareness can initially feel activating or unfamiliar. We approach this gently and with choice. Cultivating safety in the body, when it has previously felt unsafe, can often feel uncomfortable before it feels steady. Capacity is built gradually with care, not forced.
What a 75-Minute Session Includes
Each session weaves together:
Grounding and breath awareness
Accessible, choice-based movement
Opportunities to pause and notice internal experience
Closing rest and settling
Brief journaling for reflection and integration & optional community sharing
The journaling and brief sharing offer space to translate embodied awareness into language — supporting integration.
Across the series, we may explore themes such as cultivating stability, working skillfully with activation or shutdown, building tolerance for sensation, and practicing compassionate presence in the body.
The goal is not to fix what is broken, but to build trust in your capacity to notice, respond, and choose.
Who This May Be For
This group may resonate if you:
Feel disconnected from your body and need a compassionate container to rebuild that relationship
Experience stress, overwhelm, or emotional intensity
Notice that slowing down feels difficult — or even activating
Are recovering from trauma and want a movement-based complement to therapy
Prefer a structured, choice-oriented environment for your movement practice
Value psychological awareness alongside physical practice
No prior yoga experience is required. Skepticism and curiosity are both welcome.
Structure & Investment
8-week series
75-minute weekly meetings
Small group format to preserve attentiveness and safety
Currently offered virtually (future in-person offerings anticipated)
$50 per session
($400 total for the series)
Commitment to the full 8 weeks is requested, as the work builds progressively and relational steadiness deepens over time.
This is a non-therapy group and is not eligible for insurance reimbursement.
The series will be offered periodically based on interest. Join the interest list to be notified when enrollment opens.
