Mindful Movement Class Series - Reclaiming Your Soft Animal Body

Mindful Movement Class Series:  Reclaiming Your Soft Animal Body, an online trauma informed yoga class series.

Wednesday, September 25-October 30, 2024 | 5:30-6:30pm MT

"Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." Mary Oliver

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Are you interested in fostering your relationship of belonging with your soft animal body?

Do you struggle with post-traumatic stress or other conditions that emerged due to longterm trauma?

If either of these questions resonated with you, this offering will be of interest.

Class Description.

I'll guide you through 6-weeks where you get to meet yourself where you’re at, follow your choices and the cues from your soft animal body throughout the experience. You'll be invited to notice feelings in your muscles, with choices to move, stretch, and breathe based on your own body energy levels, sensations, and present moment experience.

A slow and gentle yoga class grounded in choice with a weekly rhythm of engagement, integration, and rest.  An opportunity to be intentional and move with special care.

This trauma-informed class series offers space to reconnect and develop a sense of belonging with your body at a pace that is supportive for you.

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"Nicola offers a kind and gentle space. There is complete freedom to show up as you are and enjoy whatever feels right in your body. My sense of being embodied has increased as a result of her teachings." - Class Participant

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"I will forever be grateful for finding this class. It has been an amazing addition to my trauma therapy. Nicola has created a safe and welcoming space that has helped me to be more present and connected to my body. I highly recommend this class and would absolutely register again." - Class Participant

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This is a unique and particular 6-week movement class series available for these dates. It is informed by Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Somatic Experiencing, and weekly opportunities for land-based connection.

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Possible Outcomes.

Research has demonstrated that Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) starts to reduce symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with 5-weeks for many participants.

Each person's journey is unique.

All bodies and expressions are welcome.

Come see what's possible for you.

Visit Trauma Sensitive Yoga West

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"I highly recommend Nicola and this program. The classes were a welcomed addition to my healing and I noticed my PTSD symptoms decrease after only a few classes. I also feel more safe and in control of my body than I have in a long time. Thank you Nicola for being very open and supportive." - Class Participant

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“At the start and during the series I was still in fight mode, very stressed and worried and really living in sensations of the past. I wanted to share that because it really was a dramatic amount of healing I experienced.” - Class Participant *

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What is received in this 6-week class series?

• A weekly movement class with a collective of folks interested in connection with their body.

• A new therapeutic theme each week introduced with education before starting each class.

• A pre-and-post class check in form to track trends or patterns for yourself.

• A weekly PDF at the end of each class reviewing the content of the theme introduced that week which includes journal question prompts corresponding to the theme.

• Weekly pre-recorded educational videos to support further integration of the material

• Weekly land-based inquiry exercises embedded in the educational integration videos in correlation with the weekly theme to support fostering connection with the natural world and access some rest.

• Additional to resources connecting with each therapeutic theme.

• 1 Pre-recorded Mindful Movement Class to access if you happen to miss a class.

• Email access to Nicola throughout the 6-weeks if any questions arise!

*Please note the live movement practices will be recorded to support those who might need to miss a class.

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When.

Engagement.

Online Mindful Movement Class using Zoom Platform

Every Wednesday starting September 25-October 30, 2024 for 6-weeks

730-830pm ET

530-630pm MT

430-530pm PT

Integration.

• Weekly pre-recorded educational videos

• Educational PDF summaries

• Journal question prompts

• Land-based inquiry and connection

• Additional resources related to the therapeutic themes

• Access your support outside of the class series

Collective Rest.

There will be guided instructions for weekly experiences of land-based connection with the regulating nervous system of the earth that are optional .

This is an invitation into a quiet re/volution.

One of embodiment...

Of choice...

Of Agency.

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Registration and Investment.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga West

$230 - Sustainer (Pays for yourself)

$260 - Supporter (Pays for yourself and supports someone else)

$200 - Community (Discounted)

**Event sales and registration close Wednesday September 25, 2024 at 3pm MT.

***The value of the class series is $230, however there is a self-determined way to choose what you pay based on your access to financial and social resources.

Everyone has the same access to resources and content!

The 3-tiered pricing is based on your self-determined access to resources, privilege, and social capital. Through self-assessment, please consider your positionality of privilege. You are encourage to consider this based on your intersecting identities (ie: race, gender, sexual identity, social-economic status, education, able-bodied-ness etc) that do or do not grant you access to social capital.

Please choose the self-determined amount to register with your payment.

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Financial Opportunities.

* Scholarships are available for a reduce rate of 50% from the community tiered pricing (funds generously raised by the Mindbody Awareness Fundraiser)

* If providing a lump sum payment is not accessible for you at this time, payment plans are available. Please go to the website to apply and share your intended schedule for payment in 2 instalments, noting the full payment needs to be received by Tuesday September 24, 2024, prior to the class series start date.

Please fill out the scholarship and payment plan applications on the website, www.traumasensitiveyogawest.ca.

If you have any additional questions, please contact Nicola at wellnesswithnicola@gmail.com

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This is what people were saying about the last class series…

"My opinion of meditation/yoga has shifted. I was so resistant to trying it because I am a very fidgety person...'Fidgety skeptic' if you will. Around week 3/4 I TRULY started to give in to the resting pose and in week 4/5 I was able to lay there, in complete stillness and silence and hear nothing in my head. No chatter. No white noise, no tasks popping in. Just complete silence. Thinking about it actually brings a tear to my eye as I write this because never once in my life before this class, not even when I’m falling asleep, have I felt true stillness." - Class Series Participant

Bring your curiosity. Participate in discovery. Peacebuilding from within.

Still have questions?

Visit Trauma Sensitive Yoga Westrauma Sensitive Yoga West to register, and with questions, scroll down to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's).