GROUP YOGA
I aim to complement existing therapeutic interventions within clinical and community settings by offering accessible practices that help participants to safely connect with their bodies. When offered within an emotionally predictable environment, yoga can provide meaningful support for those experiencing uncertainty or persistent stress. Outcomes often include increased self-efficacy in trauma recovery, contributing meaningfully to wider therapeutic aims.
Sessions follow a consistent structure, allowing participants to build familiarity and integrate practices beyond the sessions. Practices are adapted in response to the needs and capacity of the group, with an emphasis on regulating, reducing stress and restoring a sense of agency.
Key principles include clear and continuous verbal guidance, limited prolonged silence, and trauma-sensitive language that avoids potentially triggering imagery. There is no emphasis on overexertion and participants are encouraged to move at their own pace with full respect for personal boundaries and choice.
I facilitate groups of up to 8 participants and offer flexible pricing to accommodate a range of funding structures and budgets. Sessions require a quiet, spacious room with optional dimmed lighting.
PRACTICES & BENEFITS
Breath-work: Simple techniques to retrain stress-based breathing patterns and encourage physiological regulation including calming effects connected with vagal pathways.
Meditative Awareness: Directed attention to present-moment physical and somatic sensations for interoceptive awareness (a fine-tuned felt sense of the body).
Movement: Grounding, balancing asana for proprioception (awareness of the body in space) and to explore comfort and safety in movement.
Chanting / Mantra: Creates subtle somatic vibration soothing the body’s systems and supporting more coherent patterns of brain activity associated with integrated awareness.
Self-Massage / Tapping / Gentle Stretching: Techniques to ease tension, stimulate lymphatic flow and intentionally attend to the body with care.
Restorative Practices: Adapted relaxation using cushions, blankets and ambient music to enable deep rest and a psychophysical experience of connection and support.
Please get in contact if you’d like to explore the possibility of therapeutic group yoga within your client or patient services.
