February 17, At the Safefouse Outreach Center, 6:30-9

Yoga for Trauma and Addiction - -client care and self care is designed for counselors, therapist  and other professionals whose clients have issues with trauma and addiction. Yoga for Trauma and Addiction was created by Yoga Teachers, Geri Topfer, Penni Feiner and Yoga Therapist, Nancy Candea, who collectively have spent hundreds of hours working in rehab centers, shelters, and jails. Their clients…

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This coming weekend, Satellite’s first teacher training begins. Kourtney and I are busy with the prep work. It’s overwhelming and exciting. The exciting part is that we'll be helping our students to teach yoga modalities to people other than those who go to a studio and pay for yoga training. Oftentimes, one of the first things that I need to teach is the “need”: making people aware of the need for stillness of mind; of the need for self-empowerment

over stress; of the need for proactive… Continue

This week both the jail work and the women's shelter work were easy. No one had any big issues. The biggest issues had the simplest, most tender solution. A dear small woman coming off some pretty potent drug use asked me for some help today. She thought that some breathing exercises would help with her anxiety. It turned out though that she was too distracted by how cold she was to do any breath work. We went in the kitchen and I showed her where the tea and teapot were and I made her a cup of… Continue