With Elena Mamatas, RYT-500, TCTSY-F
6 Thursdays: 10:30-11:30am, April 25 - May 30.
Trauma sensitive yoga is a thoughtfully curated practice where you are invited to move, breathe, and connect to your body while moving through a gentle mat-based yoga practice.
In this non-judgmental practice space, you are welcome to explore movements at the pace of your choice. There is never any pressure to achieve the “correct alignment” as we move through various asanas or yoga forms. Rather, you will always be offered choices for ways you might engage with each form, and you’ll be offered many gentle reminders that there is no way to do this practice wrong. Everything is always optional, and taking breaks, skipping things, and doing things your way is warmly welcome.
As we practice tuning into our present-moment, body-based experience, the possibility emerges for making the movement choices that truly feel best or right to you. In this way, each of us becomes the ultimate authority and expert of our own personal practice.
Although this practice is designed with trauma in mind, we don’t talk about trauma during these sessions. Rather, this space is all about exploring what it’s like to move, sense, and have agency over our bodies. You always get to be fully in control of your own practice (there are no hands on assists).
You do not need any previous yoga experience to take part, nor do you need to consider yourself flexible.
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an evidence-based adjunctive treatment designed especially for complex trauma which you can read more about here.
In order to make this space truly trauma sensitive, each participant is asked to setup a brief 10-15 minute phone call with Elena prior to joining the group. The call is an opportunity for Elena to answer your questions, share a little bit of information about the practice, and to confidentially hear anything about you that you want her to know about you. There is absolutely no pressure to share anything you don’t want to share. There is also no pressure to decide on the spot whether or not you’d like to join. Rather, the call is an opportunity for you get all the information you need to help you decide whether this practice feels like a good fit.
Cost: $90-120 sliding scale. For more information & to register, click here
About Elena Mamatas:
Body-based modalities like trauma sensitive yoga have the potential to powerfully support those of us who have experienced trauma. That has been the case in Elena Mamatas’ own life, and she has become deeply passionate about sharing these transformative tools with others. A certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator and a practitioner of Somatic Experiencing (SE), it is her great joy to create spaces where individuals are free to connect their bodies and harness their inner-power as fuel for their post-traumatic growth.
Elena first discovered yoga and meditation in college, and since then, she has been an avid practitioner and life-long student. She has coupled her yoga studies with years of intensive training in SE and TCTSY, and is continually amazed by the power of these practices to expand our capacity for vitality, joy, and resilience.
