Trauma Sensitive Yoga Class
Sunday, December 8th, 2 PM
Free event, donations welcome. Registration required.
As a part of our exhibition Renewal: Healing Through Art, join Windsor Art Center for a Trauma Sensitive Yoga class led by Emily Lapolice of Integrative Wellness Therapies. Emily is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator, and a faculty member at the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at Justice Resource Institute. She has been a psychotherapist for nearly 2 decades, specializing in complex trauma, perinatal mental health, and embodiment practices.
What to expect: Trauma Sensitive Yoga methodology is based on central components of the hatha style of yoga, where participants engage in a series of physical forms and movements. Elements of standard hatha yoga are modified to maximize experiences of empowerment and to cultivate a more positive relationship to one’s body. Unlike many public yoga classes, Trauma Sensitive Yoga does not use physical hands-on adjustments to influence a participant’s physical form. Rather, it presents opportunities for participants to be in charge of themselves based on a felt sense of their own
Learn more about the style of yoga Emily will be teaching HERE.
More About Emily
Over the past 20 years, Emily has worked in New York City and Boston based hospital, school, and other mental health settings with a diverse group of immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized populations impacted by trauma and oppression.
Emily is continually exploring ways to engage individual and collective healing efforts of Self, Body and Land, and to de-colonize the healing experience with the individuals and communities she works with.
Emily holds Indigenous ancestral lineage with the Mi’kmaq and Huron First Nations tribes of what is now known as Nova Scotia and Southern Ontario, Canada; and the Seminoletribe of what is now known as Florida, United States. Although Emily has no personal reference point to the lived experience of Indigenous Peoples, she holds great reverence to the teachings and ways of being that have been gifted to her, and acknowledges the impacts of intergenerational trauma on her family of origin. Emily is committed to furthering our collective understanding of the pervasive impacts of colonization, cultural genocide, and the neocolonial systems and structures that continue today.
She is also a mother to two young boys, and lives on the traditional unceded lands of the Pawtucket Tribe of the Massuchett Peoples in what is now known as Arlington, Massachusetts, where she maintains a small private practice.