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Inner Resource Yoga

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6-Week Series for Private Groups (75 Minutes Per Session; Location as Arranged per Group)

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Designed For: 

  • Transition Houses, Shelters, Supportive Housing

  • Mental Health & Substance Use Facilities 

  • Survivors of Trauma in Any Context 
     

This is a gentle yoga series designed for connecting with and nourishing one's inner resource. Through a trauma-informed approach with multiple options offered, we will explore gentle active and restorative postures on the mat, simple breathing exercises, and short periods of guided meditation. 

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Themes include:

  1. Establishing Your Foundations

  2. Being Present

  3. Acknowledging Multiple Truths

  4. Making Space  

  5. Intention

  6. Self-Love

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Questions & Private Group Bookings: Please contact Erin

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Previous participants in this series include residents of Victoria Cool Aid Society's Next Steps Transition House in LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC). 

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OFFERINGS FOR PRIVATE GROUPS 

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To create a customized offering for a particular group, please contact Erin.

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See below for sample menu (these can be offered again and tailored as needed). 

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Yoga for Crisis Decompression and Resilience

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6-Week Series for Private Groups (90 Minutes Per Session; Location as Arranged per Group)

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Designed For:

  • Social Workers, Counselors, Frontline Social Service Providers

  • First Responders (Paramedics, Firefighters, Police)

  • Doctors & Nurses

  • Anyone who routinely encounters crisis situations through their work. 

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In our work we frequently respond to crisis situations including 911 emergencies as well as routinely holding space for people experiencing tremendous pain. These events can often trigger our own nervous systems into the Fight/Flight/Freeze mode.

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Through gentle movement and breathing exercises, guided meditation and relaxation, we will explore tools to shift our nervous systems back into the Rest/Digest/Repair mode where healing, balance, and integration can occur. You will gain familiarity and confidence with simple and accessible tools for use in daily life, at work or at home, to release the energy of stress and crisis and to facilitate an experience of grounding, centering, and calming. This series is taught with a trauma-informed approach. 

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No experience necessary.
Open and accessible to all bodies, regardless of ability, mobility, or fitness.
Pre-registration and intake required. 

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Questions & Private Group (eg. Workplace) Bookings: Please contact Erin

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Previous participants in this series include Supportive Housing staff at Pacifica Housing in LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC). 

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PAST OFFERINGS

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Yoga for Recovery Support 

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Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:45 - 2:45 PM 
November 2019 - January 2021

Recovery Works Victoria

LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC)

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Open to all residents of Recovery Works Victoria, this trauma-informed gentle hatha class was designed to support addictions recovery through:
 

  • Witnessing sensations and thought patterns with curiosity and compassion;

  • Grounding into and befriending one's body;

  • Gradually reducing pain and releasing deeply held traumas in a supportive environment;

  • Learning tools to soothe and regulate the nervous system; 

  • Deepening self-awareness and reclaiming choice.  

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Trauma-Informed Gentle Hatha

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Seasonal Warm Weather (Outdoor Class): Mondays 6:30 - 7:45 PM

May-September 2019

Victoria Cool Aid Society: Next Steps Transition House

LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC)

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Open to all residents of Next Steps Transition House. Began as "Inner Resource Yoga" 6-Week Series (see above) and emerged into an ongoing program. 

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Trauma-Informed Gentle Hatha  

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Rotating Schedule of Volunteer Yoga Teachers

Summer/Fall 2018

Victoria Cool Aid Society: Rock Bay Landing Shelter

LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC)

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Open to all residents and clients of Rock Bay Landing Shelter. 

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InspireHealth - Supportive Cancer Care

LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Oak Bay, BC)   
 

Volunteer Subbing

  • Mindfulness Meditation (Mondays 11:15 AM -12:15 PM)

  • Gentle Hatha Yoga (Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30 - 10:45 AM)

  • Restorative Yoga (Fridays 9:30 - 10:45 AM)

July 2018 - March 2020

FREE for InspireHealth clients https://www.inspirehealth.ca/
 

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I humbly and respectfully acknowledge that the land I live and practice on is the unceded territory of the Pentlatch, K'ómoks, and Tla'amin peoples, and that I formerly lived and practiced on the unceded territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and lÉ™k̓ʷəŋən peoples as well. I humbly and respectfully acknowledge the deep traditional and ongoing relationships of these and neighbouring Indigenous peoples to these lands, and the complicated reality of my presence as an uninvited settler. I further humbly and respectfully acknowledge that yoga is an ancient spiritual and wisdom tradition gifted from India and South Asia, and that it is often misappropriated and misrepresented in Western culture. I am committed to ongoing listening, learning, and action in healing the countless harms of colonization, to preserving the intactness and authenticity of yoga to the best of my knowledge, and to participating in healthier relationship with my Indigenous neighbours, with the source cultures from which yoga emerged, with the land, and with all my relations.

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Butterfly Tree Yoga is rooted in the principles of loving kindness, respect, compassion, accessibility, and anti-oppression. I have a strong commitment to welcoming and serving all people with respect and acceptance, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, neurotype, ethnicity, colour, nationality, cultural or religious background, citizenship status, age, health status, economic circumstance, family or marital status, or body size or shape. If there are ways I can remove barriers and better serve you, I welcome you sharing these with me. 

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Butterfly Tree Yoga is an LGBTQ2SIA+ Positive Space. 

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