For Professionals

• You will learn:
• The Intensive will include yoga practices (movement/poses (asana), breath work (pranayama), meditation and visualization practices,
• yoga philosophy,
• psychoeducation around neurobiology and trauma as it applies to the practices we are employing and intensive psychotherapy sessions in a group environment.
• Psychotherapy sessions will be held in a group space where the energy of the group supports the individual’s work and the individual’s work supports the group.
• Purpose: The purpose of the intensive is to assist you to develop your levels of consciousness and to work to help you move closer to deeply and thoroughly healing your trauma imprints and energetic blocks from this lifetime and the lineages. This will allow you to utilize your Self to translate your healing practices from deeper, more grounded, more passionate and more effective places in you. 

Risks: This work can be confronting, enlivening, painful, joyful, frightening, triggering, clarifying, vulnerable, confusing, lightening, loving, angering, triggering, compassionate and so much more; please be prepared for anything to emerge and come to the intensive with the intention to be open to new ways of experiencing yourself and the world and to be open to grow.

Insurance: This therapeutic experience is facilitated by a Registered Social Worker – can be claimed on insurance if your insurance covers Social workers or can be utilized as a training program for continuing education.

Daily schedule: Generally 8am-6pm but it will be determined based on what is happening in the process so it will change as needed – please book off the entire time and keep evening responsibilities light for integrating the day and to allow for a longer afternoon session if we need to go over time. Yoga practice will always start the day and will end the day as needed. Please be on the mat in the morning promptly at 8:00am. The final day will definitely go into the evening for closing so be prepared for that. 

Cell phones: are to be used ONLY for music during sessions. Please make a conscious effort not to busy yourself with cell phone use during breaks or lunches. The purpose is to be present with yourself and the group and often we dissociate by engaging the phone instead of our lives, ourselves and the others around us.

Some workshops presented have included:

• Understanding Trauma – A neurobiological, relational approach – Athena’s Sexual Assault Counselling and Advocacy Centre; Georgian Bay Family Health – Mental Health Team. 
• Contacting the Self: From Dysregulation to Mindful Connection in the Therapeutic Relationship – Mistissini Mindfulness Conference – Cree Justice Department AND  Gwekwaadziwin Miikan, Youth Mental Health and Addiction Program
• Trauma, Yoga and the Brain: Strategies for Understanding, Normalizing and Soothing Patient Fears – Royal Victoria Hospital
• Anxiety and the Nervous System: Understanding, Normalizing and Soothing Anxiety in Individuals and the Family – Almaguin Highlands Community Living
• Boundaries, Limits and Attunement in the Parent-Teenager relationship – Pine River Institute
• Contacting the Self: From Dysregulation to Mindful Connection in the Parent-Teenager Relationship – Pine River Institute
• Trauma awareness in the parenting relationship – Pine River Institute
• Navigating boundaries in the workplace – Right to Play
• Working with children who have experienced Trauma – Right to Play
• Boundaries and the Art of Relationship at Camp – Camp Oochigeas
• Managing behaviours in a camp context – Taylor Statten Camps                                                                                
• Please contact us if you would like us to prepare a training for your organization or group.