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Workshops & Trainings
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Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra: Prepare Your Nervous System for the Holidays
The Mat Yoga Studio, Nov. 1, 12:30-2pm
The holiday season can be joyful—but it can also bring full calendars, busy schedules, and plenty of mental and emotional stimulation. Give yourself permission to slow down and reconnect before the season gets into full swing.
This Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra class is designed to create space for deep rest, quiet reflection, and renewal. Through supported restorative poses, mindful breathing, and a guided Yoga Nidra practice, you’ll be invited to soften tension, settle your attention, and shift from doing to simply being.
You’ll leave with simple practices you can carry into the holiday season to help you pause, breathe, and create moments of calm—even when life feels busy.
No yoga experience necessary. All poses are fully supported and accessible. Come as you are, get comfortable, and give yourself the gift of rest.
Teaching Yoga Through a Trauma-Sensitive Lens
A Workshop for Yoga Teachers and Wellness Professionals
October 23-25
Rescue Yoga, Carrollton, Tx
Join us for this empowering and educational workshop designed for yoga teachers, movement instructors, and wellness professionals who want to create safer, more inclusive, and healing-centered yoga spaces. Grounded in the latest research and best practices, this trauma-sensitive yoga training will provide practical tools and compassionate frameworks to support students of all backgrounds—especially those affected by trauma.
In this workshop, you will learn to:
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Understand the impact of trauma on the body, brain, and nervous system
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Identify the key principles of trauma-sensitive yoga (safety, choice, agency, and empowerment)
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Use invitational and inclusive language in your cueing
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Offer movement and breathwork in a way that supports self-regulation and grounding
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Create a class environment that reduces the risk of retraumatization
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Recognize the difference between trauma-sensitive yoga and trauma-specific yoga or yoga therapy
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Explore how concepts like titration and resilience show up in yoga practice
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Reflect on your own teaching style and develop trauma-sensitive strategies that align with your values
This workshop is not about diagnosing or treating trauma but about equipping you with the awareness and practical skills to lead classes that honor the lived experiences of all students.
Participants will receive a certificate of completion and resource guide.'
Create space for healing. Teach with compassion. Lead with awareness.
Join us to deepen your understanding and make your teaching more accessible to all.
Thanksgiving Open Flow Benefitting Minnie's Pantry
Thanksgiving Day, 9:30 am
In-person and Virtual with a Donation to Minnie's
The Mat Yoga Studio, Dallas, Tx
Join us for a practice rooted in gratitude and loving kindness. In-person donations of foodstuffs, cash and checks accepted. Payment for online option will be donated to Minnie's Food Pantry. Join us to bring some groundedness and open hearts to your holiday!
The Sacred Art of Savasana
Teacher Training and Workshop
TBD
This 16‑hour teacher training prepares facilitators to confidently teach restorative rest practices, create safe and trauma‑informed environments, and guide extended Savasana sessions grounded in both yogic philosophy and modern nervous‑system science.
Participants learn:
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Rest physiology and nervous‑system literacy
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Trauma‑sensitive language
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Cueing fundamentals
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Space‑holding and energy modulation
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Sequencing and class structure
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Ethics and scope of practice
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Hands‑off and minimal-touch approaches
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How to guide long-form Savasana experiences
Individual practices will be open to the public:
The Sacred Art of Savasana - Foundations of Rest (Click here to register)
TBD
The Sacred Art of Savasana - Releasing the Armor (Click here to register)
TBD
Adapting Yoga for Every Body: Chair Yoga Through the Lens of Accessibility and Equity
TBD
This dynamic and inclusive 4-hour workshop is designed for yoga teachers, educators, therapists, and wellness professionals who want to expand their skills and confidently offer chair-based yoga to people of all abilities.
Rooted in the transformative teachings of Jivana Heyman and Dianne Bondy, this training explores how yoga can be truly accessible, trauma-informed, and grounded in equity. You’ll gain practical tools to adapt asana, breathwork, and meditation for those who practice seated, whether due to disability, aging, injury, chronic illness, or personal preference.
Through embodied practice, guided meditation, group discussion, and hands-on teaching exercises, you'll leave with:
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An introduction to chair yoga theory and movement
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Techniques for adapting common yoga poses while maintaining safety and integrity
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Inclusive, empowering language that centers student agency
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A trauma-informed and anti-oppressive approach to teaching
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Real-world strategies for integrating chair yoga into your classes or community offerings
Whether you’re new to chair yoga or seeking to refine your approach, this workshop invites you to reimagine yoga as a practice of radical inclusion.
This workshop is for Yoga teachers, caregivers, healthcare providers, educators, community leaders, and anyone passionate about making yoga accessible for all bodies.