As we collectively continue to better understand the diverse impacts of trauma in our bodyminds, the call for dynamic, embodied practices for survivors expands. Simultaneously, so many of our communities are being exposed to persistently or increasingly traumatizing conditions in our social-political landscape. Within this landscape, Embodied Possibilities is a 6-week series for folks interested in a non-verbal container to explore the possibility of having a body through choiceful movement. Rooted in research in complex trauma, neurophysiology, and attachment, as well as yoga, Embodied Possibilities provides a pathway to transform embodied trauma patterns through practicing personal agency in a container attuned to safety.

In practice, an Embodied Possibilities session looks and sounds like a series of invitations to move or find stillness within the range of ways that your body moves. There's no expectation to look, move, or feel a certain way, and you’re free to make each practice your own. Importantly, there’s no specific movement or flow that heals trauma. Rather, this practice is about exploring choices and noticing points of curiosity or sensation that might serve to create more possibilities for how to move forward. I will also be practicing, from my own mat; facilitation is entirely verbal, and never includes “hands-on assists” or other “corrections.” You are welcome to practice from a chair or mat as suits you; both will be available for each in-studio session.

Embodied Possibilities is an expression of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), an evidence-based intervention for survivors navigating the effects of complex trauma found to be supportive for many survivors experiencing unwanted trauma-related patterns like fatigue, numbness or detachment, fear and sadness, self-doubt, nightmares, confusing emotions, and more. LB Marger Moore (they/ze) has been supporting folks as a neuroqueer, disabled somatic trauma steward in their work as a movement facilitator and somatic trauma therapist since 2015. You’re welcome to learn more about TCTSY and LB on their website, including a brief sample TCTSY practice.

As part of the registration process for this series, it is required to complete an additional participant waiver/registration form (Google form, only viewable by LB, see below). You will not be asked to identify as a trauma survivor or describe experiences of trauma. While Embodied Possibilities is intended to be therapeutic, this offering is not therapy. Any movement practice can bring up unexpected thoughts, feelings, or sensations; some participants find it useful to identify supportive people (such as a trusted friend, bodyworker, therapist, etc.) with whom they can verbally process their experiences outside of class if desired.

Note: Masks will be required.

Registration

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Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

As we collectively continue to better understand the diverse impacts of trauma in our bodyminds, the call for dynamic, embodied practices for survivors expands. Simultaneously, so many of our communities are being exposed to persistently or increasingly traumatizing conditions in our social-political landscape. Within this landscape, Embodied Possibilities is a 6-week series for folks interested in a non-verbal container to explore the possibility of having a body through choiceful movement. Rooted in research in complex trauma, neurophysiology, and attachment, as well as yoga, Embodied Possibilities provides a pathway to transform embodied trauma patterns through practicing personal agency in a container attuned to safety.

In practice, an Embodied Possibilities session looks and sounds like a series of invitations to move or find stillness within the range of ways that your body moves. There's no expectation to look, move, or feel a certain way, and you’re free to make each practice your own. Importantly, there’s no specific movement or flow that heals trauma. Rather, this practice is about exploring choices and noticing points of curiosity or sensation that might serve to create more possibilities for how to move forward. I will also be practicing, from my own mat; facilitation is entirely verbal, and never includes “hands-on assists” or other “corrections.” You are welcome to practice from a chair or mat as suits you; both will be available for each in-studio session.

Embodied Possibilities is an expression of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), an evidence-based intervention for survivors navigating the effects of complex trauma found to be supportive for many survivors experiencing unwanted trauma-related patterns like fatigue, numbness or detachment, fear and sadness, self-doubt, nightmares, confusing emotions, and more. LB Marger Moore (they/ze) has been supporting folks as a neuroqueer, disabled somatic trauma steward in their work as a movement facilitator and somatic trauma therapist since 2015. You’re welcome to learn more about TCTSY and LB on their website, including a brief sample TCTSY practice.

As part of the registration process for this series, it is required to complete an additional participant waiver/registration form (Google form, only viewable by LB, see below). You will not be asked to identify as a trauma survivor or describe experiences of trauma. While Embodied Possibilities is intended to be therapeutic, this offering is not therapy. Any movement practice can bring up unexpected thoughts, feelings, or sensations; some participants find it useful to identify supportive people (such as a trusted friend, bodyworker, therapist, etc.) with whom they can verbally process their experiences outside of class if desired.

Note: Masks will be required.

Registration

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Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Softly start the new year with a gentle Kripalu yoga class and live music savasana to soothe your spirit.

For an auspicious start to the year, this practice is centered around Ganesha, the deity from the Hindu pantheon associated with new beginnings, transitions, and removing obstacles. Connect with Ganesha through yoga, mudra, mantra, and music to center yourself as you move into what this year may bring. Intentions for the New Year that may arise from the practice will be sweetly sealed with a peaceful live music savasana to honor Ganesha.

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Sliding-scale pricing: $30 - $50.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

As we approach the new year, we will gather in the warmth of great company to honor what has been and turn our hearts toward new possibility. Re-align yourself with what matters most to you and receive the power of community to magnify our individual and collective intentions. This workshop will include joyful yoga, meditation, rest, and contemplation.

All experience levels welcome.

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Sliding Scale Pricing: $30-$50

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Sanctuary welcomes you to a discussion and physical movement workshop of yoga therapy practices aimed at supporting digestive health. The gut and brain are in constant communication and this relationship, with factors like stress, trauma, and our environment, plays a role in digestive health. In this workshop we will discuss this gut-brain axis that is central to yoga therapy practices for digestive health and bring this awareness into a gentle physical yoga practice.

You may opt to bring a notebook. The studio is wheelchair-accessible. Please note: This workshop will be presented in the context of the yoga therapy model, which is aimed at holistic treatment using yogic practices to treat body-mind system related concerns. Safara’s certification is in teaching Yoga for Digestive Health. She is not a licensed yoga therapist.

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Pay-What-You-Can, by donation: $5-$40, Suggested Rate: $30

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

With Award-Winning Poet and Yoga Instructor, Sebastian Merrill, this writing and yoga workshop will include an asana practice designed to spark our creativity, followed by generative writing. We'll cultivate a sense of wonder, intuition, and magic with various tools including meditation, bibliomancy, and tarot.

The act of writing is an act of revelation: this workshop will provide you with techniques and skills to act as a medium for your writing, discovering new ideas, shapes, and forms through your own subconscious. This workshop is for anyone who wants tools and structure for supporting their own creative practice.

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Sliding Scale Pricing: $30-$50

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

With LB Moore

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an empirically-validated choice-based movement practice for survivors navigating the effects of complex trauma. The purpose of TCTSY is to provide opportunities for participants to explore agency and the possibility of having a body through making choices about movement and/or stillness. As a modality focused on your internal experience and choices, TCTSY isn’t about “correct” or “best” ways to move, and you’re not expected or required to have a particular emotional or physical experience. There’s not a right or wrong way to move or have a body.

While participant experiences are inherently personal and varied, TCTSY is generally associated with increases in interoception (internal awareness) and self-efficacy in making choices within and beyond the movement space. Positive changes in trauma-related experiences (e.g., mood concerns, vigilance, perspective of self, relationships, physiological arousal) are also commonly reported by participants of TCTSY.

If you’d like, you can learn more about the body of formal research about TCTSY at traumasensitiveyoga.com/research.

Any movement practice can bring up unexpected thoughts, feelings, or sensations; some participants find it useful to identify supportive people (such as a trusted friend, bodyworker, therapist, etc.) with whom they can verbally process their experiences outside of class if desired.

For this series, the same overall flow and series of shapes will be provided each session in service of predictability. Options for ways to move or explore stillness are offered as invitations, and you are welcome to make choices about how to practice. If you’d like to see a brief sample video of TCTSY facilitated by LB, you can find one on their website here. You are welcome to practice from a chair or mat as suits you; both will be available for each session.

This special series is intended for adults who are interested in trauma-sensitive movement. You’re welcome to learn more about TCTSY and LB at ampersandhealing.org/tctsy. As part of the registration process for this series, you will be asked to complete a participant enrollment form (Google form, only viewable by LB). You will not be asked to identify as a trauma survivor or describe experiences of trauma.

Registration

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Sliding Scale Series Pricing: $120-$180

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

A space for queer and trans family builders of all types, this series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community (as well as straight allies who want to be in a queer-positive space) who are looking to connect with their bodies, their breath, and their pregnancies in a supportive environment.

Each class will include time for community and connection and an exploration of the ways that yoga can support pregnancy and birth through movement, breath, and meditation. All bodies, sizes, and abilities are welcome and celebrated.

Sebastian Merrill has been teaching Queer & Trans Yoga with skill and care since 2018. He is passionate about creating supportive spaces for queer and trans pregnant people. His teaching is gender-affirming, body-positive, and trauma informed. He is a Certified Accessible Yoga Teacher as well as a Certified Prenatal Yoga Teacher.

Registration

Thursdays, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM.

Sliding-scale series pricing: $80-130. Drop-in pass: $20-30.*

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.