Yoga and Healing Offerings

Trauma is the physiological event that happens inside our body over and over again after the event or experiences occurred. Trauma is stored inside our bodies as trapped energy which is why movement, which helps to release that energy, can feel so healing and regulating. Yoga is a powerful lifestyle of mindfulness, asaña (poses), meditation, breath work, and focus that is rooted in the wisdom, ancient texts, and culture of South Asia, and the benefit and love of yoga has grown to worldwide access. These offerings below are not intended as workouts, which is how the Western world has often treated yoga, but as offerings to help ground, heal through movement, shift perspective, and reconnect with sensations in the body through embodiment work. My hope is that you are able to connect with these offerings in the ways that you need.

I personally started engaging in yoga practices while I was pregnant with my daughter in 2017. My pregnancy was high-stress and high-risk, and my yoga journey opened me up to a slow reconnection with myself, with the wild world, and with my healing. After years of personal practice, I pursued a Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor certification in 2023 and I am incredibly honored to share these offerings below with you. I have a heart to hold space for hard and complex emotions and experiences so many of these videos hold attention around mental health experiences, the experience of surviving trauma and feeling through the after effects, and honoring seasons of burnout or grief. As an Empath (and Enneagram 9), I have a special place in my heart for the caretakers-whether you are a parent, a pastor, a leader, or a caregiver in anyway, it’s an honor to offer care for your heart, mind, and body. I hope that these practice for you feel like an invitation to connect to yourself, to the wild, and to the world, as well as to your own healing.

Holly Madden
Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor

Most of my own practice is done outside without a yoga mat, or in the middle the living room while mothering, so please, never feel pressured to look or practice a specific way. I am still learning, I strive to incorporate earthing (grounding with the earth), meditations centered on healing from trauma and on liberation, and guided movements and modifications that are sensitive to all lived experiences and bodies.

Before you take a class, honor your body. Listen to your body’s need to rest, to move, or to slow down. If at any point you feel pain, dizziness, or tension in an asana (pose), stop and move in a way that honors what your body needs! We are all created with unique flexibility and our life journey’s have shaped, aged, and adapted our bodies uniquely. Yoga should never be a comparison, a source of competition, or fuel to push yourself pas your limitations.
Always listen to your body first!

-Holly