Yoga

Trauma Conscious Yoga

We live in world that can feel very stressful and overwhelming emotionally and psychologically, leaving us feeling traumatized. A trauma survivor can be an adult survivor of childhood abuse, a relationship abuse survivor, a survivor of sexual assault, someone who was in a horrible accident, or war veteran dealing with PTSD. That is why “trauma conscious” yoga class is taught differently from any other regular yoga class.  A regular yoga class may not be comfortable or fully relaxing to a trauma survivor and in fact, may feel frustrating and scary.  Therefore, this class is designed to settle your nerves and help you better regulate your nervous system through the practice of interoception and sensation awareness. This class is facilitated in an invitational style and is intended to support your sense of empowerment, freedom, and self-awareness.

If past or chronic present verbal/emotional/energetic/physical trauma ail you, then this class is right for you.

Additionally, many of us live at the intersections of multiple identities that are attacked/oppressed as people of color/Muslims/LGBTQIA/etc.. Experiencing and witnessing such forms of injustices accumulate in our nervous systems and has a way of overwhelming us and disrupting our ability to cope, respond, and function vibrantly.

At our trauma conscious yoga sessions, you don’t have to worry about being judged or forced to do something or be something that is not aligned with your sense of dignity and justice. Register for this class today if you would like to begin your healing journey with yoga.

Purna Yoga/Alignment Yoga

Benefits of Purna Yoga:

• Supports the mind, body, emotions and your Spirit
• It creates both strength and flexibility
• Promotes good cardiovascular health
• Helps to create mental clarity and will relieve stress
• Will create an emotional balance
• Connects you awareness to your intuition and wisdom within
• This style is safe for all ages and body types
• Promotes healing from injuries
• Promotes an overall sense of wellness

This class is for those who are newer to yoga and for those who want to deepen their practice of postures. Learn to engage alignment principles that deepen postures powerfully while keeping you safe.

Learn the fundamentals of a beginning yoga practice, enjoy the shapes of the yoga postures as you stretch and strengthen your body. Become familiar with the Sun Salutations called classical Surya Namaskar, Hip Series and The Morning Routine while you release tension along your spine with twisting actions and beginning back bends. Your teacher will share with you what poses may not be appropriate for you if you are working with areas in your body that are healing or you are pregnant/on cycle. You will also learn relaxation techniques and beginning breath awareness called pranayama. Increase self-awareness so that you may establish a sustainable practice. 

Purna Yoga is the style of yoga which teaches alignment-based asana, healthy living and heart-centered meditation to help people achieve healing, wholeness, fulfillment of one's life purpose. A regular Purna yoga practice supports an effective and evolutionary relationship to meeting the needs of today’s challenging world.

Chakra-Balancing Yoga

Awaken the energy-body and activate the chakra system while flowing through a carefully sequenced asana practice. Move through yoga forms, breath-work, and sometimes sounds that purify and reset each individual chakra located along the spine from the root (muladhara) chakra to the crown (Sahasrara) chakra. Transitions seamlessly from one to the next postures while learning about each chakra's individual qualities. Students are introduced to the higher 8th, 9th, and 10th chakras that reside above the physical body after they have completed their first 12 classes. The work in these higher chakras involve a deeper practice of breath-awareness, self-awareness, and meditation. This class is for all levels.

Tantra Energy yoga 

Tantra Energy Yoga is about restoring and creating greater intimacy and connection -with your self, your own body’s sensations, heart, and spirit, or with a partner and in relationships. It is ultimately about restoring a sense of juiciness and aliveness in all our relationships.

If you feel like you're in a disconnected cycle or simply seeking to integrate greater sense of intimacy and juiciness in your daily life, this coaching may be helpful and transformative for you.

Whether you practice with yourself or with a partner, as your facilitator, I guide you to:

• discover & connect with your sacredness energies, your elixir of life, your true essence

• understand how to practice consent and healthy boundaries which enable safety, and therefore, true intimacy & connectedness

• support you to dissolve and transform barriers/challenges that get in the way of creating healthy emotional, physical, & spiritual intimacy with yourself and others

Why?

• Because perhaps you have too much shame and guilt associated with your own needs/desires, blocking you from truly living in and caring for your body

• Because maybe you disowned pieces of your sensual self to survive

• Because perhaps you have a tendency to self-sabotage your body and/or relationships

• Because perhaps you learned to protect your heart by building up walls to prevent getting hurt again, diminishing your chances of intimacy with people in your life

• Because you learned coping strategies that are not the healthiest for your long-term wholeness and are now creating issues in your adult relationships/life

• Because you simply learned to shut off or go numb as a way to cope and move forward in life and now you are too bored/empty

Since early childhood, certain life experiences may have been unbearably confusing/shocking/overwhelming and maybe left your nervous systems feeling dysregulated/traumatized. As a result, you may have begun to survive with a sense of numbness/disconnectedness or other coping mechanisms that no longer serve your today.

It's only by reintegrating your lost self/s and with your essence that you'll be able to truly heal and move past the trauma. You may already know this deep down.

What happens in a tantra energy yoga program?

Tantra yoga is an ancient practice that offers tools and practices that include physical solo and partnered asana, mantra (sound/chant), mudra (hand position), and bandha (energy lock) and chakra (energy center) work that can be used to cultivate strength, clarity, and connection in everyday life. By harnessing and embodying the forces of creativity and transformation, Tantric energy yoga teaches how you may move through the world with more confidence, connectedness, and sacredness.

All Tantra energy yoga coaching sessions are offered in-person only. 1hr or 1.5hrs sessions are available.

Book Sonali for uncensored straight talk about things that hold you back from your highest and deepest intimate capacity.

Sonali specializes in coaching singles and couples through the 'stuck' place, whether that be in your intimate relationship/s, your life situation, or your spiritual practice.