Yoga can be utilized as a healing tool for all. Understand how being trauma-informed can promote long-term healing for clients who have experienced trauma without triggering unwanted memories or sensations. This workshop will teach a trauma-informed approach to ensure that all students feel safe to experience yoga as an empowering, healing practice. Presenter Ivelise Castillo also answers questions from Part 1. Find Part 1 of this workshop and others on yourya.org.

Learn how to share yoga with preschool children appropriately and safely, along with specific techniques to help children relax and focus. Practice structuring a 30 to 45-minute class, and a guided relaxation using breath and visualization. This workshop also reviews guidelines for children with ADHD and Autism.

This workshop explores some of the body changes that can occur throughout pregnancy and how yoga can support common challenges. Learn safe and simple modifications that can be incorporated into yoga practice to support both the parent and the baby during this sacred time.

Understand how the practice of yoga fits into the landscape of constant change. Discuss how to live yoga in a meaningful way. The world seems like a never-ending landscape of suffering and injustice. At the same time there is also breath-taking beauty, raw magic, courage, kindness, and bravery. Climate change poses an imminent threat to all life. Explore how using yoga to educate and empower is one of the possible solutions for taking on the work of being climate awake and climate proactive. Along with the insight of fundamental yogic teachings, practical tools and ways forward are shared.