One-On-One Trauma-Informed Yoga Sessions For Healing
personalized, attuned support for your healing journey
Yoga for Healing
Healing doesn’t just happen in the mind—it happens through the body.
Stress, overwhelm, and trauma live in our breath, our muscles, our posture, and in the ways our nervous system learns to keep us safe.
One-on-one trauma-informed yoga creates a different kind of healing space:
a relational, compassionate place where you can reconnect with your body, tend to your nervous system, and rediscover a felt sense of safety and empowerment — at a pace that honors you.
You don’t need to be flexible.
You don’t need to know anything about yoga.
These sessions are not about performing poses — they’re about cultivating presence, choice, attunement, and a more compassionate relationship with your body.
Whether you’re brand new to healing or you’re looking for practices to complement your work in therapy, one-on-one yoga support meets you where you are.
Together, we gently explore movement, breath, and grounding practices that help your system settle, soften, and remember what safety can feel like again.
What You Can Expect
Your one-on-one sessions are shaped around you — what your body is holding, what your nervous system needs, and what feels supportive in the moment.
Together, we’ll explore gentle, grounding practices such as:
Breath and mindful movement to help your system shift out of chronic fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown
Building body awareness and finding simple language for what you feel inside
Consent-based, invitational movement that restores agency, choice, and a sense of “I get to decide what happens in my body”
Practices for emotional care that help reduce anxiety, overwhelm, low mood, and stress
Compassionate inner awareness to nurture self-trust, self-kindness, and a more supportive inner relationship
Cultivating a felt sense of safety, grounding, and belonging in your body
Expanding your capacity to stay present, even when you’re experiencing discomfort or uncertainty
Every session is led with care, respect, and attunement.
You’ll always have choice in how you participate—whether that means moving, resting, pausing, talking through what you’re noticing, or simply showing up exactly as you are.
This work honors the truth that your body is wise, your pace matters, and healing happens in relationship.
Why One-on-One?
Group classes can offer connection and shared healing — and private sessions create something different: a deeply personalized, attuned space where your body, your story, and your pace are centered.
In one-on-one sessions, you receive:
Individualized support that honors your unique history, needs, and nervous system
The freedom to move at your own pace, without comparison or pressure
A contained space to safely explore movement, breath, and emotion in ways that feel supportive and grounded
Integration with the healing work you may already be doing in therapy, bodywork, or other practices
One-on-one trauma-informed yoga can be especially supportive if you’re:
Navigating trauma, grief, burnout, chronic stress, or overwhelm
Wanting to rebuild trust, safety, and connection within your body
A helping professional or caregiver experiencing compassion fatigue or secondary trauma
Looking for a gentle, non-performative practice designed with care for your nervous system and your lived experience
This is a space where you don’t have to “keep up,” know the poses, or have any previous yoga experience.
It’s a space where your body gets to be listened to — not pushed, judged, or rushed.
A Space That Feels Different
This is yoga that centers relationship, not performance.
Presence, not perfection.
Trust, not pushing through.
These trauma-informed yoga teachers and yoga therapists are trained in nervous system literacy, somatic practices, and attuned, relational care. You’ll never be asked to override your body or hustle toward a pose.
There’s no expectation to “get it right”—only invitations to notice, choose, and connect with your body in the ways that feel most supportive, empowering, and true for you.
This is a space where you can soften, explore, and heal at your own pace — a space where your body’s wisdom leads the way.
Meet the Trauma-Informed Yoga Teachers
Practitioners listed on this page own and operate their own independent healing businesses and lease space within Empowered Spaces. While we share community and values, each practitioner is solely responsible for their own services, offerings, and practice policies.
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Laurie Brockhaus, LCSW, E-RYT500 C-IAYT (she/her)
Yoga Teacher, Certified Yoga Therapist, Clinical Social Worker
Contact Laurie :
lkbrockhaus@gmail.com
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Jessie Kissinger, PLPC, RYT-500 (she/her)
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Savannah Carlson, PT, DPT, RYT (she/her)
Yoga Instructor, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist, Pelvic Health Advocate
Contact Savannah:
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Angela Dahm, RYT 200 (she/her)
Registered Yoga Teacher
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Gayla Downey, RYT-500 (she, her)
Certified Holistic Coach, SheRecovers® Coach & Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher (RYT-500), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Beginning Year), Certified Sound & Reiki Practitioner
Founder Grateful Heart Rituals