Join Sarahjoy and yoga teachers from around the country at the 8th annual Northwest Yoga Conference! The NWYC aims to celebrate and promote the benefits of yoga while cultivating a unified yoga community through learning, sharing, and growing together. 

Sarahjoy will be presenting the following sessions:

• Trauma-Informed Brain-Sensitive Yoga
• Developmental Journey of the Chakras: Root to Solar Plexus
• Developmental Journey of the Chakras: Heart to Crown
• Yoga Therapy for Upper Back, Chest and Heart

Read on for details on each session.

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Sarahjoy's NWYC Schedule

Thursday, January 23rd
Trauma-Informed Brain-Sensitive Yoga 
With so much increasing need for safe, informed, attuned, sensitive, adaptive, inclusive, and culturally competent care, yoga is being considered a vital resource in settings where such care is needed. We provide yoga programs in prisons, hospitals, schools, and rehab centers. We also have requests to provide yoga in mental health triage centers, immigration centers, and domestic violence shelters.
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While yoga provides a body-centered, brain-nurturing, stress-reducing experience, and develops the life skills tool kit our community members need to move from struggling with surviving to learning about thriving, HOW yoga is provided has a significant impact on its efficacy.

Students will learn the neurological, physiological, and psycho-spiritual workings of yoga for the brain, body, mind, and heart.

• trauma-informed principles for the triune brain and polyvagal systems.
• mindfulness-tools that help acclimate students' to increasing levels of safety and self-awareness.
• breathing practices to disarm over-active (rajasic) or to nourish under-active (tamasic) nervous systems.
• integration of right and left brain aspects for yoga practices.
• essential relationship skills based on attachment theory and brain development.

We will also focus in skill development, in real time. Sarahjoy will support the development of your:

• ​Voice prosody, pace, and purpose.
• Language choices and strategies.
• Personal and interpersonal resonance.
• Compassionate responsiveness (not enmeshment).

This one-day session includes a 110 page manual and workbook.

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Friday, January 24th
Developmental Journey of the Chakras: Root to Solar Plexus
Incorporating the developmental journey of the chakras into your yoga practice bridges your practice from the physical body to the subtle body, opens these energetic centers as gateways for healing, vitality, and integration, and prepares you for the deeper practices of pranayama and chanting to be truly accessible and transformational.

With 7 chakras and a lifetime to dedicate to practice, this workshop will focus on the developmental imperatives of the first 3 chakras including the life purposes, the emotional potentials and challenges, and the community responsibilities for each chakra.

We will incorporate asana, pranayama, chanting, and meditation.

Developmental Journey of the Chakras: Heart To Crown
Incorporating the developmental journey of the chakras into your yoga practice bridges your practice from the physical body to the subtle body, opens these energetic centers as gateways for healing, vitality, and integration, and prepares you for the deeper practices of pranayama and chanting to be truly accessible and transformational.

With 7 chakras and a lifetime to dedicate to practice, this workshop will focus on the developmental imperatives of the last four chakras including the life purposes, the emotional potentials and challenges, and the community responsibilities for each chakra.

We will incorporate asana, pranayama, chanting, and meditation.

Discount on tickets to NWYC ends September 25th

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Saturday, January 25th
Yoga Therapy for Upper Back, Chest and Heart
 Considering the lens of Yoga as a whole science and a mystical path, yoga therapy works with the lenses of the subtle body as well as the physical body.

The koshas, the vayus, and the doshas all inform us about the ongoing interplay of the mind-body-wisdom-psyche-ecology, the medicinal applications of yoga, and our responsibilities of inquiry into how our lifestyle is influencing our whole health, our life conditions, our relationships, and the ecology.

This session will cover yoga therapy for the upper back, chest, and heart. Conditions addressed may include thoracic immobility or pain, shoulder injuries, heart congestion, asthma, blood pressure, and depression.

Discount on tickets to NWYC ends September 25th

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