Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga is an invitation to reconnect with your body in the present moment.

TCTSY (Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga) is an evidence-based approach and adjunctive “treatment” developed for complex trauma based on the Hatha Yoga style. In the one hour session, participants are invited to explore and adapt shapes and forms that may feel supportive for them and to notice the felt sense in their bodies as they engage in the practice. No previous experience in Yoga is needed. It is a gentle embodied and restorative practice inviting participants to explore their sense of agency through a shared authentic experience.

The sessions will be facilitated by Katia Verreault.

Katia is a trauma-informed Dance Movement Therapist with extensive work experience in multicultural settings and more specifically with populations affected with trauma. In her community-based and clinical work, she integrates trauma-informed practices while supporting individuals and groups who wish to integrate the body into their therapeutic journeys.

Her work has taken her to Palestine, Uganda, Kenya, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and The Netherlands where she offers individual and group therapy sessions to develop Dance Movement Therapy education programs and workshops on trauma and restoration through the body.

In India, she has been supporting mental health practitioners and Expressive Arts Therapy programs through her training, workshops, and embodied supervision with various organisations. In the Netherlands, she collaborates with NGOs such as Refugee Company, War Child Holland, to develop movement-based psycho-social care for children and adults with a refugee background globally. Her research work focused on using Dance Movement Therapy for resilience building among traumatised women refugees and asylum seekers. She is also a certified trauma-sensitive yoga practitioner at TCTSY, associated with the centre for trauma and embodiment, JRI. Her trauma-informed approach anchors bodily engagement across the spectrum of creative modalities at A Moving world – WE DANCE; where she promotes dance and movement as a therapeutic tool for self-empowerment, community building, and resource-building.