With Jesse Leavitt
Free informational session with Q&A and sample practice. This is an optional session and does not commit the participant to the full series. No registration needed; drop-ins welcome!
About the series: 6-part Trauma Sensitive Yoga series dates: 10:30am-11:30am, Thursdays, Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, Feb 5, 12. $90-120 sliding scale per person for entire series. Register by clicking this link
About the practice:
Trauma Sensitive Yoga is a gentle practice with guided options focused on present moment experience.
You get to explore your own pace, pauses, and choices from the facilitated invitations and examples.
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga is an evidence-based intervention for complex trauma that uses body-up awareness of internal cues rather than cognitive processing. You will not be asked to share about any traumatic experiences.
You can read more from Jesse and a private yoga practice blog written together with a participant in TCTSY sessions here: https://www.healwithcfte.org/blog/jesse-mariana
Facilitator Bio:
Jesse is founder of transformative healing retreats through Our Fire Collective and an outpatient clinician at Greenfield Clinical and Support Options, Inc. He completed Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Facilitator Certification in 2022. He has been coaching, counseling, and teaching for over 20 years, predominantly working with trauma survivors of all ages and care-work professionals in a position to steward secondary trauma. He engages in many forms of movement and contemplative practice for his own well-being - of which yoga is just one that creates safe enough ways to have a body and form a relationship with it. He is passionate about exploring embodied healing in partnership with others and their work and natural environments.
What is Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)?
TCTSY is an evidence-based intervention (EBI) for complex trauma and PTSD. Although TCTSY employs physical forms and movements, the emphasis is not on the external expression or appearance (i.e. doing it "right"), or receiving the approval of an external authority. Rather, the focus is on the internal experience of the participant and being present with oneself.
This shift in orientation, from the external to the internal, is a key attribute of TCTSY as a complementary treatment for complex trauma. With our approach, the power resides within the individual-and growing their awareness of internal physical cues--to guide survivors toward restoring a felt sense of safety in their relationship to their body and to others.
Further, by focusing on the felt sense of the body to inform choice-making, TCTSY allows participants to restore their connection of mind and body and cultivate a sense of agency that is often compromised as a result of trauma.
You are welcome to watch this video or share it with your clients who are wondering what/why trauma-sensitive yoga could help them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhz25kalsJ4
