$49
Discover a mindful approach to yoga designed to support those navigating acute, chronic, or complex stress. In this workshop, we’ll explore how trauma can be held in the body and learn tools to create a safe, empowering environment for healing.
You’ll practice using invitational language, clear and concise cues, and techniques that foster trust, grounding, and self-regulation. Together, we’ll discuss the concept of post-traumatic growth and how yoga can help students gently reconnect with their bodies.
Each participant will leave with a personalized blueprint for creating “safe, brave” spaces—whether in their own practice or when guiding others.
This workshop welcomes students of all levels as well as yoga teachers.
Schedule:
2:00-3:30PM
-Understanding the stress to trauma spectrum
-Resilience, regulation and post-traumatic growth
-Trauma-sensitive spaces and practices (Body Scan)
BREAK
3:35-5:00PM
-Somatic Therapies and Positive Neuroception
-Therapeutic Yoga Interventions (Let’s practice!)
Deirdre has been coaching and creating custom wellbeing programs for professional caregivers (educator, healthcare and humanitarian workers) as well as private clients for over a decade. She has been a core faculty member in organizational change leadership at Western Michigan Univ. and a lead researcher on international wellbeing projects designed to support social change-makers for The Wellbeing Project (Paris) and Kellogg Institute at the Univ. of Notre Dame. She most recently served as the Director of Wellbeing and Joy in Practice for the nurses and allied health professionals at Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.
As an integral health & wellbeing coach, yoga therapy teacher and anthropologist, Deirdre brings a holistic lens into her work with coaching clients. She has experience working with high performing staff and leaders who work in high-pressure environments and want to maximize their impact as well as supporting clients who are navigating challenging transitions (empty nesting, divorce, personal or professional loss, retirement) or wish to grow their capacity for more zest, joy and inspiration.
In addition to serving professionally as a wellbeing scientist and researcher, Deirdre is trained by the Anthropedia Institute, which offers an interdisciplinary evidence-based curriculum drawing on nutrition, naturopathy, neuroscience, art & culture, psychology, and coaching skills to support the whole person.