Special Events

yoga nidra with nicole domenic

Sunday, June 4th

4:30 pm-5:30 pm

$18 drop in or use your package

Yoga nidra is a mindful practice that is both a meditative technique and a meditative state. The Hindi translation is “yogic sleep.” The practice of yoga nidra aims to keep practioners fully awake and aware while at the same time, extremely close to the boundary of complete sleep all through guided meditation.
Nicole will also incorporate Marma point therapy, similar to acupuncture/pressure in TCM, is used in Ayurveda to manipulate specific energy points in the body. This healing practice can help improve our physical, mental, and/or emotional health by freeing stagnant energy and stimulating internal organs, hormones, and other chemicals in the body.

YOGA FOR RECOVERY, THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, STATE FACILITIES AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS

Led by Amina Naru

POSH Yoga Platform, (Hybrid)

Friday, June 9th 6pm-9pm online

Saturday, June 10th 12pm-6pm

Sunday, June 11th 12pm-6pm

3hrs (field work) 18hr Program

Tiered Tuition:

$595 Benefactor

$495 Supporter

$395 Community 

For people who can afford to pay a little more, the extra you give covers part of the cost for those who cannot. 

Guests 

Sahr Abu 

Elizabeth Getman 

Training Overview:

The rigors of being in the justice system, a state facility, recovery house or living as a system involved-person can be traumatic, volatile and in some cases, unbearable. It can be challenging to maintain wellness or hope. Oftentimes, many things are stripped away, like dignity, peace of mind, mental clarity, self worth, and the ability to care for yourself in a meaningful, substantive way.

Join Amina Naru, founder of POSH Yoga and contributor for “Best Practices for Yoga in the Criminal Justice System”, and guests, for this transformational training on how to teach the principles of strength and healing for physical, mental, and emotional wellness for systems involved people, institutions, and communities. You will learn how to create, and teach a yoga or mindfulness program that will help youth and adults build emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, and self awareness. Learn how to create and hold safer sacred spaces while sharing tools to access peace, balance, and tranquility in hostile environments and everyday life situations.

“I have worked over ten years with justice system involved youth and adults teaching how to regulate their nervous system while being incarcerated or living in hostile environments. Guiding them through tools to access comfort in discomfort, how to move energy, and how to increase and trust their emotional intelligence. Students in POSH Yoga Programs, express profound changes in mood, lifestyle, and physical, mental and emotional health. This field of yoga service needs more skilled, compassionate and well trained people to do this work. Allow me to share my story of incarceration and why this is a major part of my life’s mission and purpose with you; empowering you to empower others to be better, healthier versions of themselves” amina naru.

What makes this program unique is not just the content and lived experiences of the instructor and faculty but also the 3hrs of curriculum time assisting Amina Naru in facility sessions with students.

What You Will Learn:

Principle 1 

• The Importance of this Training (for yourself and your staff)
  • What gets in the way, saviourism, empathy vs sympathy, unhealed trauma
  • Power Dynamics, White supremacy, and why language matters 
• The history and trauma of mass incarceration
  • On families, communities, and individuals
• Trauma and the brain
  • Vicarious trauma, generational trauma, racial trauma
  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Principle 2 

• The POSH curriculum
  • What poses and why, meditations, using sanskrit, music
• Teacher expectations and standards
  • The embodiment of your practice
  • Attire, Do’s and Don’t, Boundaries
• How to create and hold safe space
  • For yourself
  • in hostile environments, outside, events

Principle 3

• Relationship Building
  • Staff, community partners, advocates
• The importance of maintaining a personal practice
  • For Selfcare, Soulcare, Mental Health
• Compassionate Leadership

Principle 4

• What community to serve
• How to Create a personal vision or mission statement
• Determine the needs of the community

Principle 5

• Gathering data
• Research study
• Pitch your program

Principle 6

• Training Others 
• Empowering Peer Leaders

This is for you:

• If you are a yoga or mindfulness practitioner interested in serving incarcerated and systems involved people
• If you are an administrator/staff person seeking to learn about, establish, or improve an existing program at your facility
• If you are a systems involved professional seeking knowledge on how yoga can help you, the people you serve and your staff 
• If you have a strong desire to serve or to be part of a social justice movement
• If you represent an underserved population, or are a POC 

Recommended Books:

• Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga, David Emerson
• How Yoga Works, Michael Gesne
• Best Practices for Yoga in the Criminal Justice System
• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Vanderkolk
• Restorative Yoga for Race Based Stress and Trauma, Dr. Gail Parker

This schedule will be given in a packet after registration. Please withhold.

SCHEDULE (Proposed, Subject to change)

Friday 6pm-9pm

Session 1 

• The Importance of this Training
  • What gets in the way, saviourism, empathy vs sympathy, unhealed trauma
  • Power Dynamics, White supremacy, and why language matters 

Saturday 12pm-6pm

• Practice (30min)
• The history and trauma of mass incarceration (Video & Discussion 2hr)
  • On families, communities, and individuals
  • Needs of Incarcerated People
  • Needs of System Involved and families

BREAK

• Trauma and the brain (Video&Discussion 2hr)
  • Vicarious trauma, generational trauma, racial trauma
  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
• Practice (30min)

Sunday 12pm-6pm

• Practice 30min
• How to create a curriculum for classes
  • What poses, meditations, using sanskrit, music
• Teacher expectations and standards
  • Attire, Do’s and Don’t, Boundaries
• How to create and hold safe space
  • in hostile environments, outside, events

BREAK

• Relationship Building
  • Staff, community partners, advocates
• The importance of maintaining a personal practice
  • For Selfcare, Soulcare, Mental Health
• Compassionate Leadership
• Practice &Closing

sound healing with ray and rebecca

from the om collective

Saturday, June 17th

12:00 pm-1:30 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Cost $40

Sound healing is an ancient healing practice that uses different vibrations to heal the mind body and spirit. Sound has been used in many cultures dating back for thousands of years. Through these practices it has been known in history to alleviate a multitude of ailments including but not limited to depression, anxiety, traumas, high stress levels, and physical diseases etc. Through the higher vibrations reached with the use of sound techniques stuck energy within your energetic body is released creating balance throughout the chakras allowing one to feel more present and self-aware.

Join Ray and Rebecca for an afternoon of inner dimensional healing through a symphony of vibrations and frequencies. Their mission is to take you on a journey of transformation and transcendence. Come for an afternoon of letting go and connecting to your higher self and remembering your inner beauty. 

wo-he-lo drum circle with walle adams

Friday, June 23rd

7:00 pm-8:30 pm

Donation-based

Wonder-Healing-Love

A drumming circle for like-minded adults who wish to be with sound, shared conversation and joy-full energy!

Bring: Any instrument that you can drum upon or rattle with! Upside down CLEAN trashcans
can be drums as well as containers with dried rice and beans a rattle! Always have plenty to
share if you don’t have something to bring this time! No worries!

All proceeds go towards scholarships for Sound Body Studio staff to attend the Trauma Conscious Yoga Teacher Training January 2024 

self care saturday with La-rhonda harmon, mariella roberts and shannon branch

Join us for a 2-hour self-care workshop. During our time together you will learn breathing exercises, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Tapping and Restorative Yoga Poses. All the tools are used to help calm the nervous system.

12:00 pm -12:30 pm Breathing Exercises with La-Rhonda

12:30 pm-1:00 pm Tapping with Mariella

1:00-2:00 pm Restorative Yoga with Shannon

Saturday, June 24th

12:00 pm-2:00 pm

Cost $40