Coming in 2026!
- Have you struggled to find practical coping skills you can use to help you heal from trauma or when you are feeling anxious or depressed?
- Are you looking for a natural alternative before trying medications or using substances to cope with negative mood states?
- Are you looking to develop a better relationship with yourself and improve your self-worth?
- Do you keep hearing yoga, meditation, and breathwork are great tools for mental health but don’t understand why?
- Have you gone to a yoga class before and felt like it was just a workout or stretching? Tried to meditate but had no idea what to do other than sit there feeling confused and restless?
- Have you been scared to try yoga thinking it’s some weird hippie-dippy thing that only eccentric people do?
- Have you been frustrated and insulted when therapists tell you to "take a deep breath" to help your stress and has this turned you off from looking any further into breathwork as a tool for you?
These were the barriers I kept hearing from clients when I would recommend they start a yoga and meditation practice for their mental health. And I came to realize that most yoga classes in western society focus only on the exercise components of yoga and are disconnected from the many ways yoga can be a powerful tool for emotion regulation, gaining inner wisdom, finding inner peace, building self-love, and healing trauma.
In 2021, I was in a bicycle accident that gave me a severe concussion and put me in a medically-induced coma for close to a week. Having been a yoga practitioner for close to 15 years, I found that yoga was the main thing I craved when I was barely able to move my body for several months while I healed from my injuries. We can really take for granted that gift of movement until it’s gone. Once I could move and stretch again, I was relieved to find I was able to heal my traumatized nervous system and brain over time through the tools offered in yoga.
This experience of my own trauma healing through yoga and my desire to help clients learn the valuable tools in this practice lost in most modern yoga classes led me to undergo 200 hours of training to become my own registered yoga teacher. I have since hosted retreats and been a yoga teacher at a substance abuse rehab center in downtown Chicago helping those with addiction heal through yoga, self-study, and pranayama (breathwork).
For the past few years, I have been passionately studying various forms of yoga and the research studies surrounding their mental health benefits. I have received training in Hatha Yoga as well as Yoga Nidra and Trauma-Informed Yoga. I have also researched how specific poses and breathing techniques can be tailored to help different mental health struggles and symptoms.
And this course is my unique offering of all of my research-based knowledge and practical tools learned throughout my many years of yoga studies and practice. It is a unique intersection of psychology and yoga, with me integrating almost 20 years of experience as a psychologist learning valuable therapeutic techniques and many years of studying and practicing yoga and meditation. So come hang out with me and let me teach you all the secret yoga and meditation tricks!
In 30 days:
Learn individualized yoga sequences for different mental health symptoms that you can directly utilize when you are feeling that symptom to shift your mood state, sequences specifically for when you are feeling depressed, anxious, triggered, irritable, emotionally dysregulated, perfectionistic, fatigued, unfocused, self-critical, ruminating, or struggling to fall asleep. No prior experience needed! It’s ok to also be out of shape and inflexible.
Learn a variety of specific, practical breathing techniques backed by research that you can use anytime to calm or energize your nervous system. I use them all the time in my daily life! These are very specific techniques, not the frustratingly vague “take a deep breath” kind of stuff.
Learn many quick techniques to help reset you and shift your mood, many that take only 5-10 minutes of your time!
Gain an understanding of trauma, how it shows up in your body and impacts your nervous system, and then learn specific practices to help your nervous system become less reactive to trauma triggers, return to an emotionally regulated state faster, and become more resilient to distress. I used these techniques personally to heal my own traumatized nervous system!
Improve your self-esteem and self-love by changing the way you relate to yourself as you become more embodied and learn how to internally self-soothe versus feel dependent on others to help you feel better
Obtain specific guidance around how to develop your own meditation practice and learn mindfulness skills to utilize this as a tool anytime you need it to reset yourself and improve self-understanding
Become more embodied by gaining an understanding of the mind-body connection and greater awareness of how your body reacts to stress, where it shows up in your body, and how to soothe and relax those muscles to find calm
Gain an understanding around why men, in particular, can struggle with feeling connected to their bodies and understanding their emotional states and overcome this after doing these practices
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