Yoga training for modern life
The current challenges of the modern world, and particularly in 2020, can seem so overwhelming and so extreme as to be almost paralysing. The tendency is to fall into a fight, flight or freeze response, and yet this leaves us little room to drop into the heart space and to show up as fully as we know we can.
Trauma informed yoga for women
This online yoga course is about looking inwards to gently unwind stress and anxiety, integrate past traumas and support vitality. This course is not about reinventing the wheel, but rather about learning how to lean into yoga to support us through these unique times as women.
Empowered Healing for Women: Yoga to Transform Stress and Anxiety is for:
Women who can relate to times of challenge, injury, illness, depression or anxiety.
Yoga Teachers who wish to refine their offerings and teach yoga as a system of life support: to recover from past challenges and be prepared to embrace future ones.
Therapists who feel the importance of guiding clients back to the wisdom of their bodies via simple and effective yoga practices and techniques.
Professionals in need of some R&R: this is deep self-care for those working in conflict areas, humanitarian aid, social work and development.
Early Bird rate until 1st December 2020
Course Curriculum
- Welcome to Module 1
- Welcome to Unwind the Feminine (54:04)
- Practice Intimacy with the Breath (75:06)
- Sealing Intimacy With the Breath (9:17)
- The Courage to See Yoga Differently (66:00)
- The Gift of Sacred Sound (16:16)
- Introduction to Pavanmuktasana Practice (5:42)
- Practice Pavanmuktasana Series Shifting Stagnation and Generating Vitality (77:41)
- Sealing Pavanmuktasana (5:35)
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sister Hood
- Questions and Comments from Module 1
- Live Call, Module 1, 6th DECEMBER (56:55)
- Welcome to Module 2
- Introduction to Your Practice Your Prayer (25:49)
- Bonus Uddiyana Bandha (3:13)
- Your Practice Your Prayer (77:31)
- Sealing Your Practice Your Prayer (9:03)
- My Story My Offering (69:03)
- Special Guest Kate Reardon: Stress & Digestion (47:13)
- Special Guest Kate Reardon: Stress & Digestion Part 2 (28:06)
- Special Guest Zoe Nash: Traditional Chinese Medicine: Spirit & Trauma (161:25)
- Introduction to Elemental Prayer (9:39)
- Practice Elemental Prayer (46:20)
- Sealing the Practice Elemental Prayer (10:47)
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sister Hood
- Questions and Comments from Module 2
- Live Call, Module 2, 9th December (57:09)
- Welcome to Module 3
- Intro to The Wonderfilled Technology of Hatha Yoga (16:36)
- Practice the Wonderfilled Technology of Hatha Yoga (75:58)
- Sealing The Wonderfilled Technology of Hatha Yoga (8:01)
- Vagina Diaries (60:24)
- TCM: Sexual Desire and the Key to Longevity (43:26)
- Introduction to Lindsey (4:47)
- Special Guest Lindsey Wise: Introduction and Story (22:29)
- Lindsey Wise: SoulSong Revival Ceremony (59:45)
- Introduction to Elemental Yin (17:12)
- Practice Elemental Yin (50:29)
- Sealing the Practice Elemental Yin (7:17)
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sisterhood
- Questions and Comments from Module 3
- Live call, Module 3, 13th DECEMBER (59:59)
- Welcome to Module 4
- Introduction to Creativity, Cyles and Spirals (25:26)
- Practice Creativity, Cycles and Spirals (70:16)
- Sealing the Practice Cycles, Spirals and Creativity (11:25)
- Special Guest Lindsey Wise: Soul Songs (59:15)
- Your Hidden Super Power (53:06)
- TCM for MCA and Life Stages (66:11)
- The Vagina Dialogue with Kate & Bex (29:23)
- Introduction to Becoming Friends (15:34)
- Practice Becoming Friends (40:51)
- Sealing Becoming Friends (5:30)
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sister Hood
- Questions and Comments from Module 4
- Live Call, Module 4, 16th December (63:52)
- Welcome to Module 5
- Introduction to Moving with the Motion (19:10)
- Practice Moving with the Motion (74:10)
- Sealing Moving with the Motion (9:00)
- Returning to Yogic Thought (41:22)
- Moving Back to Move Forwards (25:09)
- Welcome Josh (3:04)
- Josh Wise: Mindfulness Meditation to help Relieve Anxiety and Stress
- Special Guest Josh Wise: Cultivating a Wise Heart (57:01)
- Introduction to Madhu (7:11)
- Special Guest Madhu Listen to the Body
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sister Hood
- Questions and Comments from Module 5
- Live Call, Module 5, 20th December (63:08)
- Welcome to Module 6
- Introduction to Uncomfortable Beauty of going Yin (14:28)
- Practice Uncomfortable Beauty of going Yin (78:10)
- Sealing Uncomfortable Beauty of Going Yin (8:31)
- Trauma and Social Justice (46:07)
- Introduction to Nadine (9:01)
- Special Guest Universal Empress (47:21)
- Introduction to Restoration (5:38)
- Practice Restoration (55:55)
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sister Hood
- Questions and Comments from Module 6
- Live Call, Module 6, 23 December (63:57)
- Welcome to Module 7
- Active Surrender Intro to Refining Yin (24:47)
- Practice Refining Yin (74:35)
- Sealing Refining Yin (12:00)
- Spiritual Transformation and Human Integration (44:11)
- Zoe: Global Rites of Passage and Personal Vision Quest (31:13)
- Introduction to Carroll (2:47)
- Caroll: Spiritual Transformation and Physical Health (72:50)
- Madhu's Introduction (9:05)
- Madhu Body Wisdom (55:05)
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sister Hood
- Questions and Comments from Module 7
- Live Call, Module 7, 27th December (62:25)
- Welcome to Module 8
- Introduction to Incorporate Elements & Ancestors (34:33)
- Practice Incorporate Elements and Ancestors (72:21)
- Unwind Teaching (48:49)
- Women the World and Stress (56:01)
- Introduction to The Final Unwinding (27:53)
- Practice The Final Unwinding (71:19)
- Sealing The Final Unwinding (7:46)
- Soul Journal
- Virtual Sister Hood
- Questions and Comments from Module 8
- Live Call 30 Dec 2020 (54:30)
- Last Call 6 Jan 2021 (58:56)
- Introduction to the Art of Self Practice (25:05)
- The Art of Self Practice Breath and Movement Part 1 of 2 (9:51)
- The Art of Self Practice Breath and Movement Part 2 of 2 (13:53)
- The Art of Self Practice Surya Namaskar (42:10)
- The Art of Self Practice Sun Saluations A (29:46)
- The Art of Self Practice Sun Salutation B (27:27)
- The Art of Self Practice Restorative
Hi, I’m Bex
In 2018, my life turned upside down when I was accidentally set on fire. I lost 30% of my skin. In return, I received the most gracious support of friends, students, teachers and total strangers. I was forced to apply my years of studying and practicing yoga to fully integrate a very real trauma whilst dealing with a severe physical injury.
The accident forced me to see the years of cumulative stress that had wound me into varying states of anxiety. My injury required that I become intimate friends with my body, its cycles, rhythms and history. My recovery demanded that I recommit to my intimate relationships, yoga and spiritual practices in order to move through fear and re-embrace my life.
The content of this training is fresh, sincere, and has come from lived experience. It is not a replacement for therapy. It is an exploration of the gems at the fingertips of every yoga practitioner. It is gold for these unprecedented times.
Embodied Practice: 20 plus hours of practices. You will be guided through vinyasa, hatha, yin and restorative yoga. Includes a section on developing your self practice.
- Feminine flows: supportive of reproductive health
- Yoga for stress and anxiety: the benefits of combining a breath-based practice with yoga therapy and restorative yoga
- Yoga for resilience: embrace a challenging practice to rebuild self-esteem without using it to distract
- Yin yoga and visualisation: methods to explore parts of ourselves we may have numbed and how to self-regulate
- Myo-fascial unwinding: calm the nervous system and gently increase the capacity to feel what is ready to be felt
- Personalise your self-practice: a necessary step in order to guide others to do the same
- Healing power of mudra: de-mystify the power of gesture to direct vitality and nurture positive thought patterns.
- Dance with a special guest teacher
- Vocal activation and shamanic ceremony
Live Sessions: 8 live calls, plus questions, reflections and post-course support
- Twice weekly circle on Zoom and opportunity to share for the duration of the course
- Yoga for 2021: How to teach, what to teach and why to teach in these unique times.
- Ongoing support through a co-created Facebook group page
- Yoga for social justice
- Teaching toolkit
- Reading lists, written materials and resources to continue your study
Daily Lectures & Presentations for you to work through at your own pace
- Ahimsa: we heal so that we don’t perpetuate the cycle of violence
- Hatha Yoga: Moving beyond the mind to the source – the body
- Patanjali Yoga Sutra: the kleshas and insights into the causes of our suffering
- Bhagavad Gita: Karma, dharma and bhakti
- Upanishads: discernment into the nature of life itself and the constant of change
- Samkyha: return to the elements
- Dangers of spiritual bypassing
- Grief as a testament to love and pain as a doorway to compassion
- Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Specifically for women:
- Trauma and the menstrual cycle
- The vagina-brain connection: a deeper understanding of self-esteem, vocalising and creativity
- The effects of stress on the reproductive system, fertility & libido
- The nervous system, nutrition and hormones