Do you feel stuck in patterns of despair, burnout or agitation? 

Are you looking for ways to access your wise and whole self?

Do you want practices that can be a place of refuge you can return to over and over?

Yoga Therapy is a creative, compassionate, mindful and embodied approach to healing that supports you to find the seeds of wisdom and healing inside yourself. In this immersion, we will work with the body, breath, mind and heart to support you connect to your inherent wholeness.

This 5-month immersion is ideal for people experiencing trauma symptoms, depression, anxiety, grief, chronic pain or any other challenge that is causing suffering in the body/mind/heart.

In this immersion you will:

• Learn tools to settle and soothe the nervous system in order to feel more grounded, content and at ease and less chronically overwhelmed, distracted or shut down.
• Explore mindfulness practices that support compassionate awareness and the ability to address stress or pain at lower levels of distress.
• Gently work with the body through routine and embodiment practices so you can feel empowered and a sense of freedom in the physical body.
• Practice listening to the body’s intuitive guidance so you can be partners with it instead of at odds.
• Understand consent in your relationship with yourself so that you can understand consent in all relationships.
• Learn to meditate from a trauma-sensitive lens so you can work effectively with the mind’s power.
• Work in a private group where we can share openly while learning and growing together.
• Have recommended practices to deepen your awareness of the material in between live sessions in order to integrate the teachings more fully.

Structure of the Immersion:

• Attend 4 online yoga therapy groups (recordings will be available).
• Get individualized support with 4 individual 50-minute yoga therapy sessions (online) where the teachings can be modified and refined for your specific needs.
• Daylong retreat (in person or online) in South Seattle.
• Have journal prompts, guided meditations, embodiment practices and readings to incorporate the teachings.
• Enjoy a bonus recording at the end of the year on Loving Kindness.

The intention behind this immersion is to create a space where you can come exactly as you are, with all your unique strengths and challenges, to learn tools to add to your toolbox in supporting your healing, resilience and growth.

Each month will focus on particular skills to work with the body/mind/heart you can apply into your daily life to cultivate a sense of stability, groundedness and ease, and we will build on the skills from previous months for continued learning and integration. 

Schedule:

Nurturing the Nervous System: Tuesday, September 10, 2024 from 6:30-8:30pm PT
Grounding and Centering: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 6:30-8:30pm PT
Befriending Your Brilliant Body: Saturday, November 16 from 11am-1pm PT
Yoga Nidrā: Restore and Renew: Tuesday, December 10 from 6:30-8:30pm PT
Integration and Expansion: Daylong Retreat: TBD (January 2025)

Topics:

Nurturing the Nervous System

1. Learn about your unique nervous system.
2. Explore the ways your system responds to stress and safety and how to work with the nervous system when it is in a threatened state. 
3. Learn Ayurvedic principles, based on the Heart of Wellness by Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan, that support the nervous system to align with its natural rhythms.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 from 6:30-8:30 PST.

Grounding and Centering

1. Explore how you currently resource and ground yourself.
2. Integrate and expand on ways to support yourself to feel more centered through mindfulness and embodiment practices.
3. Have tools you can use anywhere when feeling anxious, overwhelmed and agitated.

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 6:30pm-8:30pm PST

Befriending Your Brilliant Body

1. Learn how to listen to what your body is telling you and address the body’s needs.
2. Explore tools to tend to the body when there is physical or emotional pain.
3. Work with the body through movement, meditation and artwork in order to more deeply understand the body’s signals, cues and needs.

Saturday, November 16, 2024 from 11am-1pm PST

Yoga Nidrā: Restore and Renew

1. Learn the powerful practice of Yoga Nidra, a meditation that can be used to settle the nervous system.
2. Rest and rejuvenate your body/mind/heart.
3. Develop a sustainable meditation practice. 

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 6:30-8:30pm PT

Daylong Retreat: Integration and Expansion

1. Spend the day together immersed in practices to nourish and replenish your body/mind/heart.
2. Integrate all the incredible work you have done in the last 5 months.
3. Have a plan on how you want to live these principles in your life.
4. Re-commit or revise your intention going forward.
5. Have fun together in community.

Date: TBD (January 2025)

Bonus Session
Maitrī: Loving Kindness Recording

1. Welcome yourself into the new year with tools of acceptance, compassion and regard.
2. Tailor this meditation practice to work directly with where you are stuck in judgement, fear or self-loathing.
3. Retrain the mind to default to kindness instead of harshness, comparison or pity.

Investment:

$999

Payment Plans available.

Make an Offering Spots: If the Immersion is not financially accessible reach out to Saumya to make an offering with the amount you can contribute.

Current clients receive a discount. Contact Saumya to get discount code.

FAQ:

How do the individual sessions work?

We will meet once/month in between live sessions. These sessions are 50 minutes and will be online. This is a time to share how the practices are going, what questions you have and we work together to refine them to your specific life circumstances.

If I can’t come to the live sessions will there be recordings?

Yes, all the group sessions will be on Zoom and recordings will go out shortly after class.

Is this immersion appropriate if I have never done yoga?

Yes, everyone is welcome. All the guidance, whether around movement, meditation or yoga philosophy, will be broken down and explained to make it accessible and digestible to all, whether you are brand new or a seasoned practitioner.

I am currently in therapy. Will this be a conflict since you are also a therapist?

This is best to talk with your current therapist about. I have found that yoga therapy can be a wonderful adjunct therapy to other forms of mental health therapy, but it is always good to talk with your healthcare team and tune into your own intuition to determine if this would be a useful addition to your care.

Is this immersion mental health therapy?

No. This is a skills-based group and we will not be contracting to do mental health work together. This is a practiced-based group that is present-orientated rather than processing previous experiences or traumas. If you are wanting mental health therapy and are curious to see if yoga therapy would be a good resource for your mental health set up a free individual consultation to discuss options here. Please note I can only contract to work with yoga therapy clients who want to focus specifically on mental health in Washington State.

Can I use insurance for this immersion?

No.

I am a current or previous yoga therapy client? Would I benefit from this immersion?

Yes. I have found that current and previous clients benefit from this immersion in a few ways.

1. It reinforces the tools you are learning and practicing from the work we do together.
2. You get to hear other people’s experiences, which can deepen and refine your own understanding and integration of the tools.
3. You learn additional resources and skills that will add to the work you are already doing.

I am a healthcare provider or mental health therapist. How will I benefit from this immersion? Will I be able to use the information in my business at the end of this immersion?

This immersion is for personal use only, and if you are are healthcare provider or therapist I invite you to leave that professional identity at the door and focus on your own process, even if it is your process in regards to your work. This is what I personally do when I go to classes and workshops, which ultimately does affect my work because my own healing deepens. This immersion is not a training and no one is authorized to train or teach anything taught here. If you are interested in consulting on how to integrate yoga into your private practice setting set up a consultation here and we can discuss options.