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Jen Leavitt… MSW/JD, RYT 200Annie Keating-Scherer… LCSW, RYT 200
Learn the art of teaching yoga to individuals with a trauma history and the science of the impact of trauma on the brain and body. Explore the role of yoga and mindfulness as a healing tool for those with a trauma history.
Friday 1/17/25: 5:30 - 9:00 pm
Saturday 1/18/25: 1:00 - 9:00 pm
Sunday 1/19/25: 1:00 - 8:00 pm
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This training includes:
- Training on trauma sensitive practices
- Training on the science of trauma and the brain, nervous system dysregulation, and yoga’s relationship to this process
- Self-reflective inquiry
- Practice teaching
- Large and small group processes
You will leave this Training equipped to incorporate Trauma informed practices into your yoga teaching and other healing modalities. This Training is open to 200-hour trained yoga teachers of any discipline. Health care workers, movement professionals, mental health clinicians, and advanced students welcome with prior permission of instructor.
$350, registration required
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This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT.
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Jen Leavitt, MSW/JD, RYT 200, is WHY’s former studio manager and she also teaches WHY Power classes at the studio. A 2011 graduate of the WHY Teacher Training program, she is a certified Therapeutic Yoga Instructor and Yin Yoga Teacher.
Jen creates an energetic, vigorous, sweaty practice for those looking to move and breathe. She has explored many different paths along the yoga road, including Bikram, Ashtanga and Kripalu. Her classes combine many of these traditions with the challenging WHY Power flow, encouraging students to move safely beyond their edge.
Her personal practice has served as an anchor through various life experiences, including divorce, recovery, and spiritual growth. Trained as both a social worker and a lawyer, Jen has worked for many years in the juvenile court system. Jen also offers training in trauma-informed yoga for yoga teachers and mental health practitioners.
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Annie Keating-Scherer, LCSW, RYT-200, is a psychotherapist and yoga teacher and the founder of Sage Therapy and Wellness, a small therapy and holistic wellness center in West Hartford. Annie loves working with her clients, helping them connect to their innate self-worth, building resilience, strength and skills to navigate trauma, stressors and hardships. Through mindfulness, evidence-based psychotherapy and yoga, Annie supports adult and adolescent clients through their healing journeys. Annie holds an MSW from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and a BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Most importantly and most magically, Annie is the mother to two amazing girls who remind her daily to connect to wonder and awe.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
23 Brook St, West Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06110, 23 Brook St, West Hartford, CT 06110-2350, United States,West Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford
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