YOGA

Trauma-Informed Yoga

What is Trauma-Informed Yoga?

Trauma-informed yoga is an approach to supporting individuals to feel safe and supported.

By implementing a trauma-informed practice, you can learn to build capacity within your body, move through personal edges, and learn to embody parts of self that may have been disintegrated.

This could be due to relational trauma that has been plaguing you throughout life.

You don’t need to know how to do yoga or be ‘good’ at it to participate.

Yoga is for everyone and the benefits include:

Nervous system soothing and integration
Greater awareness
Capacity building on and off-the-mat
Mind-Body connection
Creating a relationship with spaciousness within the body
Supporting relationships outside of yoga
More optimistic outlook on life
Building trust within
Interoception - a term to describe the physiological condition of the entire body and the ability of visceral afferent sensations and information to reach new awareness and affect behaviour, either directly or indirectly.
“The system of interoception as a whole constitutes the material me and relates to how we perceive feelings from our bodies that determine our mood, sense of well-being, and emotions.” (Fowler,2002,p. 1505)

Kate did extensive research on Trauma-Informed Yoga and Psychotherapy as part of her Master’s research in 2016.

This research continues to support her in building programs for communities, supporting individuals in their practice, and supporting expansion and growth for a class and individually.

She taught at Little Bay Correction Facility for women and ran classes out of her old business, Connect the Dots - Yoga and Wellness Space.

Kate also created and implemented a program for a support service for mental health. She is now looking to the Northern Rivers to continue working alongside others in creating and passing on these programs to support individuals based on the current scientific evidence relating to trauma and mental health services.

Yin Yoga

A Practice of Feminine Wisdom and the Subtle Body

Yin Yoga supports the deepest tissues and subtle body. It is an interoceptive practice that allows a person to move with gentleness in their class and life.

Meditative, floor-based, yoga postures are held from 3-5 minutes and may be enhanced by supportive props like bolsters, blankets, or blocks.

A wonderful complement to dynamic, flowing yoga or those seeking more balance in their fast-paced lifestyle.

Yin aids in the release of stress and tension from the body, calming the mind and reawakening the spirit through a deeply embodied practice.

Kate’s Yin classes support the connection to self and life -moving with the deeper rhythms we’re all affected by, whether conscious or not, with a focus on women’s hormones, moon cycles, and syncing to the dynamic and intuitive flow of nature.

To be confirmed where these classes will take place.

Flow Yoga

Flow yoga is a practice of Vinyasa, joining breath and movement in fluid motion.

This dynamic practice can be restorative or fluid depending on the individual class.

The sessions are curated to move with each season and the elemental forces of the earth. They lean into the traditional forms of yoga and all it creates as a science and sacred practice.