Curious about meditation? Whether you're looking to start a new practice, or deepen and refine your existing one, this workshop is for you! Join us in a welcoming and supportive environment where we'll explore the foundational principles of meditation, debunk common myths, and discuss practical ways to overcome obstacles to meditation. You'll also discover various meditation techniques and have the opportunity to experience them through a guided session. We hope you'll leave this workshop feeling confident, inspired, and equipped with the resources you need to continue your meditation journey.

*No prior experience required

When: Saturday, March 29th

Time: 11:00-12:30pm

Where: in-person

When: Saturday, March 29th

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

Investment: $35

At check out, you will have sliding scale options (after you click on “Enroll Now”) for purchasing this series at $80, $98 or $125 for all 6 sessions.

Led by: Rachel

About: Trauma-sensitive yoga (TSY) is yoga taught with heightened awareness of how the body holds trauma and stress. TSY’s aim is to start freeing the body of held trauma and its symptoms.

• Each session will start with some education around trauma, the brain and the body in efforts to validate one’s experience and shed some light on what is happening when stress and trauma go unaddressed.
• Each session will include about an hour of slow, gentle yoga that will slightly build in strength as the series progresses.
• This series is for EVERYONE. We all hold stress and trauma in our bodies (especially now, we are all living with a new, heightened baseline of stress because of how the pandemic and racial reckonings have affected us).
• This series is for those who’ve experienced any type of trauma and/or heightened stress.

Date: Wednesdays, April 2nd - May 7th

Time: 6:00-7:30pm

Where: 441 Wadsworth Blvd, Suite 122, Lakewood, CO 80226

Investment: Pay what you can (sliding scale of $80/$98/$125 for entire series)

This training is specifically for yoga teachers who want to dive deeper into how to support trauma survivors while they teach. Led by Buffalo + Sparrow Co-founder and Owner, Rachel Stroud, who holds her E-RYT® 500, YACEP® and has steeped training in TSY, Sociology, Psychology. Guest Speakers will be announced soon!

What you will learn:

• How to cue your class through a trauma-informed lens.

• How to hold space for students who experience triggers, as well as how to help them regulate from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system.

• How trauma is trapped in the body and how yoga can help to move it out.

• How the brain works in trauma and how yoga can help restore its communication with the body.

• The neurobiology of a traumatized brain and how the power of neuroplasticity works toward freedom and empowerment.

• How to self-regulate your nervous system and assist others to do the same through techniques, poses, breath and mind-body practices.

• How to support students with various types of trauma including, but not limited to: ptsd, sexual assault/abuse, domestic abuse, marginalization, complex, developmental, vicarious trauma and bullying.

• You will learn the latest and most relevant research and theories in trauma that will give you the confidence to teach from a place of being fully informed and equipped to teach to trauma survivors.

• We will discuss current and ancient world issues that will inform the way you teach and hold space (cultural appropriation, colonization and how to dismantle these in yoga spaces).

• Through practice teaching, you will be able to experience how to curb your verbiage, body language and sensitivities to hold space for anyone who walks into your classroom.

• Valuable lessons and guidance through reading homework.