Trauma-Informed Yoga
Come home to your breath, your body, and your embodied resilience.
At Empowered Spaces, yoga isn’t about perfecting a pose — it’s about cultivating presence, honoring your nervous system, and reconnecting with the parts of you that have had to work so hard to survive. Our trauma-informed, somatic yoga approach invites you to move slowly, listen inwardly, and practice in a way that supports safety, embodiment, and choice.
Whether you’re seeking a weekly class, one-on-one support, or a space for your community to practice together, we offer pathways that meet you where you are.
Why Trauma-Informed Yoga?
Trauma lives in the body — in our breath, our muscles, our patterns of bracing and collapsing.
Yoga, when taught with care and attunement, helps us reconnect with ourselves in ways that feel grounding, empowering, and compassionate.
Our trauma-informed approach is:
Choice-centered — everything is an invitation.
Slow, accessible, and attuned — honoring your pace, your edges, and your capacity.
Rooted in somatic awareness — supporting nervous system regulation and embodied healing.
Anti-oppressive + inclusive — affirming all bodies, identities, and lived experiences.
Relationship-based — grounded in safety, consent, and connection.
You don’t need experience. You don’t need flexibility.
You only need a body — exactly as it is.
Below are the different ways you can engage with trauma-informed yoga at Empowered Spaces. Each option is designed to support your healing, your growth, and your relationship with your body.
Ways to Practice With Us
Join a Weekly Yoga Class
For grounding, connection, and community.
Our weekly yoga classes offer a supportive space to breathe, move, and be with others who are also learning to listen to their bodies.
Classes are slow, gentle, and nurturing — perfect for people navigating stress, overwhelm, trauma, or wanting to build a more compassionate relationship with their body.
You might join a class if you want to:
Build regular grounding and connection practices
Reconnect with your breath and presence
Move at a pace that honors your nervous system
Be part of a supportive, non-judgmental community
Personalized, spacious, and deeply attuned support.
One-on-one sessions provide space to explore breath, mindful movement, grounding, and somatic awareness with the full presence and support of a trauma-informed yoga teacher.
These sessions are ideal if you want a more personalized approach to:
Nervous system support
Rebuilding trust and safety in your body
Practicing embodied boundaries
Processing stress or emotional overwhelm through movement
Growing your capacity for presence, rest, and regulation
One-on-One Somatic + Therapeutic Yoga Sessions
Private Yoga for Groups
Create a nurturing shared experience for your community, workplace, team, or family.
We offer private trauma-informed yoga classes tailored to your group’s needs. These sessions can be grounding, restorative, or customized around themes like stress relief, burnout support, vicarious trauma, connection, or community care.
Perfect for:
Workplaces
Helping/healing professional teams
Teacher groups
Nonprofits
Community organizations
Support groups, circles, or retreats
Trauma-informed yoga that meets people where they are.
We can create offerings focused on:
Nervous system nourishment and resilience
Embodied presence for helping professionals
Trauma-informed practices for staff
Stress, burnout, vicarious trauma support
Community grounding rituals
Accessible movement for all bodies
Bring an Empowered Spaces Yoga Teacher to Your Community
What Makes Empowered Spaces Yoga Different
We focus on embodiment, empowerment, connection, and choice.
Our yoga is:
Somatic
We help you listen to your body, follow your impulses, and grow your capacity for regulation.
Trauma-Informed
We honor the realities of trauma, oppression, and stress — and create practices that support safety and consent.
Accessible for All Bodies
We offer variations, props, chairs, and support for every mobility level.
Anti-Oppressive + Justice-Rooted
Your identity, lived experience, and cultural context matter. Our teaching holds all of that with care.
Nervous-System Aware
We practice noticing, pacing, sequencing, and attunement — inviting your system to soften, settle, and reconnect.
Relational + Compassion-Focused
We lead with presence. With warmth. With genuine care.
This is yoga that meets life as it is — messy, beautiful, overwhelming, hopeful — and supports you in moving through it with more grounding and agency.
What to Expect in a Trauma-Informed Yoga Class
You can expect:
A warm, welcoming, consent-centered environment
Slow, accessible movement with many options
Invitations rather than directives
Support with breath and grounding
Opportunities to pause, rest, or modify at any time
No pressure to perform or “do it right”
Space to reconnect with your body at your own pace
You never have to keep up.
You never have to push through.
You get to honor what your body needs.
Meet Our Trauma-Informed Yoga Teachers
Ready to Practice?
Trauma-informed yoga is an invitation to return to yourself — gently, slowly, with care.
We’d love to practice with you.
View Class Schedule
Book 1:1 Yoga Session
Request a Private Group Class
Bring an ES Teacher to Your Organization