Arise Yoga + The Driven Yogi Trauma-Informed Offerings
Guest Teacher: Emma Stern, Yoga Teacher & Mental Health Professional
Part 1: Body-Awareness Class (Open to All)
Part 2: Intensive Training (for Teachers)
Part 1: Enhancing Body Awareness Through Vinyasa
Time: 12:15 - 1:30p
Description: This powerful, sweaty vinyasa class will incorporate somatic interventions: techniques that increase your mind/body connection and help you tune into your body's signals of emotional and physical experiences. Students will learn about unique ways to intentionally reconnect to their bodies and calm the nervous system - skills they can adapt to any activating life experience on and off the mat.
Open to all students of all levels
Investment: $25
Part 2: Trauma-Informed Teacher Training
(appropriate for all yoga teaching styles)
Time: 12:15 - 3:45pm (includes part one)
Description:
What would teaching yoga look like if it centered students’ emotional safety? In this workshop created specifically for yoga teachers, Emma will break down the first class and demonstrate how teachers can incorporate basic somatic interventions and trauma-informed principles into their classes.
Teachers will walk away with a better understanding of what trauma is, and how to create a safer environment for all students as they return to studio settings after 2020-2021- which was traumatic for everyone. This training qualifies for 5 Yoga Alliance continuing education credits.
Investment: $75
About Emma Stern
Emma is an E-RYT and a mental health professional with a focus on trauma and somatics. Emma celebrates the potential for healing and transformation through all expressions of embodied movement. In particular, she is deeply passionate about bringing trauma-informed principles into active and alignment-based asana. Her trauma-informed trainings provide teachers and students with a thorough understanding of trauma, and ways to integrate trauma-informed care into any yoga style. Her teachers and mentors include Jasmine Tarkeshi, Laura Camp, Julie Rappaport, Mary Strong-Sullivan, and Jane Austin.
About The Driven Yogi Founded by Arise teacher, Keisha Courtney, The Driven Yogi is a diversity, equity, and inclusion company that creates continuing education trainings. They educate and empower yoga teachers and studio staff to create safer, more inclusive spaces – which leads to a greater student experience as well as student retention.