Trauma Sensitive Yoga Class
Dec 08, 2024 2:00PM—3:00PM
Location
40 Mechanic St Windsor, CT 06095
Cost Free, donations welcome
Event Contact Marianna Martino | Email
Categories Events, Exhibit Workshops
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 in Boston, MA. She has been a psychotherapist for nearly 2 decades, specializing in complex trauma, perinatal mental health, and embodiment practices.
What to expect: Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is the first yoga-based clinical intervention for complex trauma, or treatment-resistant PTSD. TCTSY methodology is based on central components of hatha yoga, where participants engage in a series of accessible physical forms and movements. Elements of standard hatha yoga are modified to maximize experiences of empowerment, choice-making, and connection to one’s own body.
Unlike many public yoga classes, Trauma Sensitive Yoga does not use physical hands-on adjustments, or directive language to influence a participant’s physical form. Rather, it presents opportunities for participants to be in charge of their own body in a way that is supportive and self-directed.
Learn more about the style of yoga Emily will be facilitating 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 also the Director of Training at Move to Heal South Dakota, a non-profit based in Sioux Falls, SD that engages in Evidence-Based Practices and Culturally-Relevant practices to offer movement-based healing modalities to Native youth.
Emily is continually exploring ways to engage individual and collective healing efforts of Self, Body and Land, and to decolonize the healing experience with the individuals and communities she works with. Emily holds indigenous ancestry with the Mi’kmaq and Huron First Nations Tribes of Eastern Canada, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. 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.
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.
Learn more about Emily and her work HERE.