Whether you're looking to process a specific, personal life trauma, or integrate from the collective trauma of the past few years, this series offers a gentle and supportive space to heal.

Through gentle trauma-sensitive yoga, breath practices, meditation and journaling, eMBER lays the groundwork for learning healthy coping techniques while encouraging self acceptance and building community support.

At its core, eMBER’s aim is simple: to provide tools to help people feel at home and at ease in their bodies. During the 6-week series, the curriculum develops the foundations of resilience: the capacity to bounce back from difficulty by teaching students how to draw on inner reserves of calm, clarity, compassion, and courage.

eMBER classes are accessible, engaging, and empowering

How eMBER classes may be different than other classes on our schedule...

• The teacher, Liz Baldridge, has many years experience and specialized training in trauma sensitive yoga practices.

• The classes are designed to be predictable, and you will be told what's coming from the very beginning.

• This class is for folx who identify as female.

• As a rule, there will be no physical hands-on adjustments.

• Attention will be paid to the types of props used and of the potential for feelings of vulnerability in certain yoga postures.

• The teacher will continually offer options, allowing students to practice making empowered choices, opting in or out of any portion of the class at any time.

• There will be take home materials to practice and explore what you've learned throughout the intervening weeks.

Have questions? Learn more here:  emberyoga.org or feel free to reach out

eMBER (Mindfulness Based Emotional Resilience) is a pathway to resilience that is backed by current research.

“Yoga allows survivors to regain a sense of comfort and ease within their own shape, to process nonverbally feelings that transcend language, and to experientially cultivate gratitude towards the body, which serve as a reminder of one’s resilience (Boeder, 2012).”

Because strong emotions may arise and be released during and after a somatic practice like yoga, we suggest that students have access to a psychologist, psychiatrist, or other mental health professional while on their healing journey.

Dates

July 11 through August 22 from 6p to 7:30p (Skip 8/1)

Teacher

Liz Baldridge

Cost

$110 Pay what you can option available.  Please email the studio to apply.