Breathe N Flow Yoga
2882 Long Beach Rd, Oceanside, NY 11572
July 20, 2019 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
July 21, 2019 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
2882 Long Beach Rd, Oceanside, NY 11572
July 20, 2019 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
July 21, 2019 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
By understanding the layers of addiction through science and the philosophy of yoga, Heather has developed a set of trauma informed yoga tools of resiliency to empower people who are choosing to move away from addiction. This training will help you to cultivate an awareness of how integral yoga is to the addictions recovery process and how yoga has always been a therapeutic system that addresses the obsessive mind and trauma in the body in the treatment of addiction.
Heather will help you to learn how to hold compassionate and safe yoga spaces for all who are abstaining from an addiction so that they can experience the healing medicine of yoga. Today, many people in recovery report that “they can’t do yoga because they don’t fit in, they can’t sit still or they can’t sit on the floor” and this perpetuates the feeling of isolation which is one of the core experiences of addiction. Heather focuses on everyone feeling welcomed, no matter where they are in their journey! You will learn to create an all inclusive support group or sangha by customizing a practice using a props to have everyone be together, feeling connected so that no one gets left behind. This training will help build confidence in sharing yogic tools in substance abuse rehabilitation centers or to people in recovery from any addiction.
You will learn:
-The Science of Addiction
- To understand the Yoga Lens on Addictions
- The Relationship between Trauma and Addiction
- How to Educate and Empower people about their Survival Physiology
-Resilient Yoga Addictions Recovery Chair/Wall/Mat sequences focused on befriending the body, breathing exercises to aid in emotional balance and affirmations for positive self esteem and wholeness.
Heather will help you to learn how to hold compassionate and safe yoga spaces for all who are abstaining from an addiction so that they can experience the healing medicine of yoga. Today, many people in recovery report that “they can’t do yoga because they don’t fit in, they can’t sit still or they can’t sit on the floor” and this perpetuates the feeling of isolation which is one of the core experiences of addiction. Heather focuses on everyone feeling welcomed, no matter where they are in their journey! You will learn to create an all inclusive support group or sangha by customizing a practice using a props to have everyone be together, feeling connected so that no one gets left behind. This training will help build confidence in sharing yogic tools in substance abuse rehabilitation centers or to people in recovery from any addiction.
You will learn:
-The Science of Addiction
- To understand the Yoga Lens on Addictions
- The Relationship between Trauma and Addiction
- How to Educate and Empower people about their Survival Physiology
-Resilient Yoga Addictions Recovery Chair/Wall/Mat sequences focused on befriending the body, breathing exercises to aid in emotional balance and affirmations for positive self esteem and wholeness.
This training is By-Donation.We will accept 30 teachers on an application basis. Priority will be given to teachers with personal experience with addiction recovery, including that of family members and loved ones.
Heather HagamanCertified IAYT Yoga Therapist
E-500 RYT MA, CSAC-T Heather is in long term recovery. She uses the science of trauma, resilient yoga tools and holds sacred confidential space for people to experience inner connections and a way back to wholeness. She has a Masters in Psychotherapy, is currently in training to be a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor and is a Certified IAYT Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapist. She is the Director of Beloved Yoga’s Befriending Therapeutic Programs with a specialization in Trauma and Recovery in Reston. She also has a Masters in Psychology and developed a 30 hour Trauma Informed Yoga Certification training approved by IAYT and a 20 hour Compassionate Senior Yoga Certification. Other certifications include Trauma Sensitive Yoga from David Emerson and Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk (Kripalu) and she is Certified Brain Longevity Specialist (Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation).. Heather has worked extensively with psychotherapists and health practitioners to assist clients in reaching their wellness goals. She spent two years teaching trauma informed yoga in an inpatient drug and alcohol substance abuse facility. Heather is a pioneer in the new field of Yoga and Trauma Recovery. This emerging field utilizes Trauma Informed Yoga and Meditation to help people start to move beyond PTSD, Addiction, Anxiety, and Depression and start to build fulfilling lives. There are numerous studies now that show that Yoga compliments addictions and trauma recovery. Addiction and trauma disorders are closely linked, as many individuals turn to alcohol or other drugs, eating disorders, codependency, and process disorders to escape the pain of traumatic experiences. Studies are revealing that dis-regulated trauma in the body propels people to use addictions as medicine to feel balanced.
Heather has a private yoga therapy practice as well as she teaches trauma informed group classes. She believes that recovering from trauma requires healing of the mind, the body and the breath. Many people in addictions recovery have experienced traumatic stressors from childhood. These events can create havoc in one’s nervous system and set up a maladaptive coping system for years to come. Clients are given enormous control in their sessions (and group classes) and are encouraged to approach their practice with curiosity and mindfulness. This approach assists her clients in developing body awareness through intereoception (the sense of the physiological condition of the body) to cultivate the feeling of being grounded and embodied. Grounding invites you to sense your body, notice your tension patterns, and surrender the weight of your physical body into gravity to feel the support of the earth. As a resource for trauma recovery, grounding can help you reclaim a sense of safety, feel rooted in the present moment, and strengthen your resilience. Yoga helps to move the stuck energy in the body; it helps release "the issues that live in our tissues." Once released, a person can begin to learn yogic tools to self regulate and to self soothe. Yoga helps one to pause and not run from the feelings but flow with them as energies. Yogic tools help the person to stay present, breathe and BE grounded rather than to reach and run to theoutside world for an instant fix. |
Sponsored by One Love Long Island FestivalOne Love Long Island is a Yoga Festival held at the beautiful Sands Point Preserve every year in order to raise money to support important causes in the this world. United We Om is proud to be a NonProfit partner and recipient of funding from the festival. One Love Long Islands contribution to United We Om is earmarked to share Yoga and Meditation for Substance Abuse Recovery on Long Island.
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