2019 ELS Program
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8:15am - 9:00am

Arrival and Registration/Check-In

9:00am - 9:30am

Introduction and Welcome

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​9:30am - 11:00am

Keynote by Zabie Yamasaki
​Cultivating Healing and Resilience through Trauma-Sensitivity

This keynote speech will introduce the intersection between the #MeToo and Trauma-Informed Yoga movements while interweaving personal narrative and highlighting the power and beauty of teaching yoga from a trauma-informed lens.

11:15am - 12:15pm

Mantra: Use Your Voice for Healing

In this workshop, participants will use the power of the voice and mantra to aid in healing from past trauma. Through targeted meditation, speaking, listening and journaling, each person will express or unearth any roots of past or current trauma that is affecting their daily life. Then there will be a guided relaxation practice (yoga nidra) in order to prepare the body and mind to create a personal mantra – a positive statement of how to carry on, surge forward, or climb above these roots and blockages. The session will conclude with discussion of how to incorporate this mantra into daily meditation practices and brainstorming of how to expand this mantra the help the larger community heal from violence and trauma.

Led by Autumn Mist Belk

11:15am - 12:15pm

Supportive Yoga Environments:
​Empowering Students to Connect to their Bodies

As we know all too well, past trauma, previous sexual assault and general anxiety can make physical contact with others, and especially strangers, at the very least uncomfortable. In this one hour workshop, we will discuss ways yoga teachers can ask for consent when offering hands-on assists during a yoga class so that students feel comfortable, welcome, safe and empowered during their practice. We will discuss how yoga teachers can empower students to be present and mindful in their bodies (as opposed to ignoring physical and emotional signals) and adjust their practice in a way that can cultivate joy, energetic calm, and relaxation. Workshop participants will have the chance to participate in a short yoga practice where they are able to non-verbally communicate their consent (or not) for hands-on assists and are given examples and prompts to be present in their bodies and make adjustments to tailor the practice to their present needs.

Led by ​Laura Terry

11:15am - 12:15pm

Open Trauma:
Intersections of African American Culture and Sexual Trauma

Learn information about trauma caused by sexual violence within the African American Culture including the impacts, effects, and coping skills that have been accepted through generations. Partaking in an open dialogue and activities will be an important part of this session.

Led by Tracey Williamson Miller

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Vegan/GF lunch catered by Govinda's Catering
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1:30pm - 3:30pm

Peace Filled Parenting:
​Cultivating Consent & Honoring Humanity ​

​Take an intentional and mindful look at the ways we influence the idea of consent and bodily autonomy in Children. Within this offering, look at the ways parenting and interactions with children can shift culture in the era of #Metoo.

Led by Kelley Carboni-Woods

​1:30pm - 3:30pm

Creating Safe Spaces:
​Trauma-Sensitive Group Facilitation

As group facilitators, how can we create safe spaces in which connection and healing are possible? In this workshop, we will discuss emotional, psychological and physical safety and ways they are affected by sexual violence. Through experiential learning, yoga exercises, group discussion and individual reflection, we will learn about creating safe spaces through trauma-sensitive group facilitation. We will review the 5 core elements of TCTSY (Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga) - non-coercion, invitational language, choice making, introspection, and shared authentic experience - as they apply to group facilitation, on and off the mat.

Led by Jenna Horgan, LCSW

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Transformation through Subtle Awareness:
​Survivor Self-Care in Yoga Settings

Explore ways to integrate holistic self-care practices into yoga & mindfulness classes, retreats, and home practices. Through lecture, experiential components, and discussion, we will learn how holistic approaches can nourish damaged nervous systems and broaden the scope of self-care, with particular focus on body-oriented techniques, creative expression, and nature-inspired practices. These simple techniques provide options for survivors who encounter trauma-related distress while practicing yoga or meditation, whether that arises as patterns of dissociation, emotional flooding, sensations of trauma memories, intrusive thoughts, pain, or other difficult experiences. By practicing tending to needs as they arise, sexual trauma survivors honor their intuition and learn to bring self-care into more moments of their daily lives.

Content note: Short descriptions of emotions, thoughts, and inner sensations of a survivor healing from sexual trauma. Traumatic events themselves are not described.

Led by ​Naomi Ardea

3:30pm - 4pm

Closing Remarks