One-On-One Trauma-Informed Yoga Sessions For Healing
personalized, attuned support for your healing journey
Healing doesn’t just happen in the mind—it happens through the body.
Stress, overwhelm, and trauma shape our breath, our muscles, our posture, and the ways our nervous system learns to protect us.
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.
These sessions are not about poses or performance.
They are about cultivating presence, choice, attunement, and a more compassionate relationship with your body.
Whether you’re beginning a healing journey or looking to complement therapy or other support, this work meets you where you are — offering practices that help your system soften, settle, and reconnect with a felt sense of safety.
Yoga for Healing
You don’t need to be flexible.
You don’t need yoga experience.
You simply need a willingness to meet yourself with care.
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 may explore:
Gentle breath and mindful movement to support regulation and ease
Building body awareness and language for what you’re noticing inside
Consent-based, invitational movement that restores choice and agency
Practices for emotional care that support stress, anxiety, low mood, and overwhelm
Compassionate inner awareness that nurtures self-trust and self-kindness
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 guided with care and attunement.
You are always welcome to move, rest, pause, talk, or simply be — your body sets the pace.
Why One-on-One?
Group classes can offer connection and shared healing. Private sessions create something different: a deeply personalized space where your body, your story, and your pace are centered.
One-on-one trauma-informed yoga may 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
Seeking a gentle, non-performative practice rooted in nervous system care
This is a space without pressure, comparison, or expectation — where your body is listened to, not pushed or rushed.
A Space That Feels Different
This is yoga rooted in relationship, not performance.
Presence, not perfection.
Trust, not pushing through.
The 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 “get it right”.
Instead, you’ll be invited to notice, choose, and connect with your body in ways that feel supportive, empowering, and true for you.
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.
Yoga Teacher, Certified Yoga Therapist, Clinical Social Worker
Laurie is a trauma-informed yoga teacher and licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience teaching yoga and mindfulness. In one-on-one and group sessions, she blends gentle vinyasa and yin yoga with breathwork and meditation to support mental health and emotional wellbeing, recognizing the impact of trauma and systemic inequity on the body and nervous system. Laurie creates accessible, inclusive spaces where teens and adults feel safe, supported, empowered, and connected to themselves and others.
Areas of Focus
Trauma-informed yoga movement, breath work, and meditation
Gentle vinyasa and yin yoga practices
Support in using somatic practices to navigate the impact of chronic stress, trauma, anxiety, and depression
Accessible yoga and meditation for teens and adults
Trainings & Certifications
LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
C-IAYT (Certified through International Association of Yoga Therapists)
TCYM (Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method, Level 1 and 2)
E-RYT500 (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance)
RCYT (Registered Children's Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance)
Contact Laurie
lkbrockhaus@gmail.com
314-492-6518
Registered Yoga Teacher
Angela Dahm is a trauma-informed yoga teacher who offers gentle, one-on-one sessions for people seeking a supportive and accessible relationship with movement. Drawing on over 25 years of personal practice and six years of teaching experience, she centers choice, pacing, and nervous-system regulation. Her approach is calm, practical, and adaptable—meeting each person where they are each day.
Areas of Focus
One-on-one yoga tailored to your body and energy
Chair and mat practices focused on gentle strength, mobility, and circulation
Nervous-system support and grounding
Supportive movement for chronic illness, aging, stress, or overwhelm
Welcoming spaces for those who don’t feel at home in traditional yoga settings
Approach & training:
• 200-hour RYT (Yoga Alliance)
• Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga (30 hours)
• Yoga Nidra, Tai Chi & Qi Gong–inspired movement, mindfulness
• Six years teaching accessible chair yoga in community and healthcare settings
Contact:
314-740-9933
Psychotherapist, Yoga Teacher
I bring together my training as a psychotherapist and a yoga teacher to create practices tailored to each student’s unique needs—whether you come to yoga for chronic pain or illness, injury recovery, anxiety, depression, trauma, or simply a desire to reconnect with yourself. Whatever brings you here, my intention is to offer a space where you can listen to your body, breathe, and be kind to yourself.
Areas of Focus
Trauma-informed movement & grounding practices
Nervous system regulation & polyvagal-informed yoga
Gentle interoceptive awareness
Breathwork for anxiety or overwhelm
Support for burnout, grief, or chronic stress
Rebuilding trust and safety in the body
Contact Jessie:
314-246-0731
Certified Holistic Coach, SheRecovers® Coach & Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher (RYT-500), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Beginning Year), Certified Sound & Reiki Practitioner
Founder Grateful Heart Rituals
Gayla Downey is a trauma-informed yoga teacher and somatic recovery coach who supports individuals in healing from substance use and mental health challenges. With a warm, nourishing approach, she weaves yoga philosophy, sound, and compassionate self-study to help people reconnect with their wholeness and thrive in recovery.
Areas of Focus
Mindful trauma-informed movement & grounding practices
Nervous system regulation & polyvagal-informed yoga
Gentle interoceptive awareness
Support for those in or seeking recovery
Rebuilding trust and safety in the body
Is This Right for Me?
One-on-one trauma-informed yoga may be a good fit if you’re seeking a slower, more attuned approach to movement — one that centers safety, choice, and nervous-system care.
You’re welcome here whether you feel connected to your body, disconnected, unsure, or somewhere in between.
You don’t need to have the right words.
Your body already knows where to begin.