Time & Location
Apr 16, 2024, 6:00 PM – May 14, 2024, 7:30 PM
Location sent after registration
About the Event
Yoga is a very unique tool in healing, and we understand more and more about how and why the more we research and understand the nervous system. Ultimately, though, yoga is not about parts of you- it is about you as an inherently whole being.
The world “healing” is used as a way of addressing and feeling that wholeness, not about “fixing” you.
This workshop is not about poses or breathing or even about meditation or relaxation, although we will do all of those things.
This workshop is about you, and how to use these techniques to serve your unique being, which holds your history, your present, and your dreamt future in the ways your responses to events in your life impact the way you feel in the world.
Trauma is not an event. Trauma is a process of your system adapting to overwhelm by taking you out of your body. While symptoms of trauma are unquestionably challenging, it is important to recognize that they developed out of the life force your body survived or is surviving with. As such, they must be approached with respect, self-compassion, and great gentleness as you bring yourself back to a place of embodiment.
This is a gradual process. So as we work, I will teach you first and foremost about reading your own body system's messages and ways to adapt movement, breath, and focuses to create the experience of connection in your nervous system.
Skills:
Understanding interpersonal trauma and our protection responses
Finding a felt sense of boundaries, choice, and autonomy
Uncovering connection to self, others, world
Discerning fight/ flight, freeze, and shutdown responses and how to work with them
Grounding
Centering
Working with rhythm, movement, and breath
JOIN US FOR ALL FIVE SESSIONS! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
To Register: https://www.vashondoveproject.org/event-details/regrowing-our-wings-yoga-therapy-with-deborah-king
About the Facilitator:
Deborah King, C-IAYT, is a yoga therapist certified by The International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is in private practice, specializing in interpersonal trauma. In addition to her partnership with The Dove Project, she works with Swedish Medical Centers to offer yoga therapy to people navigating multiple sclerosis, cancer, and postnatal mental health challenges. In addition to her lifetime of practice and 22 years of teaching, she has a vast and diverse background of training, including certificates in Embodied Social Justice and Polyvagal Theory applied to yoga therapy. She is the author of the article When Safety is a Privilege, Not a Choice: Yoga Therapy with Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, found in the 2024 Winter issue of Yoga Therapy Today.
Pop- Up Insomnia Workshop: Yoga Therapy to help you sleep
Monday, January 29, 2024
7:00 PM -9:00 PM PST
Yoga Therapy for sleep! Join me for a 2 hour practice designed to help you fall and stay asleep, along with overviews of working with night waking, nervous system reset through the day, panic attacks, and nightmares. We will end with an extended yoga Nidra you can do in bed!
https://privatesessionsyogawithdeborahking.as.me/insomniaworkshop
REGROWING OUR WINGS: Yoga Therapy for People Healing from Interpersonal Trauma
With Yoga Therapist Deborah King, C-IAYT, in partnership with The Dove Project
Saturdays, April15- May 6
11am-1230pm
FREE
In this workshop, you will learn how to use yoga therapeutically to support yourself in your process of healing. Yoga gives as an understanding of ourselves as inherently whole, and the practices are ways to tap your experience of this wholeness. More than just poses, you will learn to read the messages of your nervous system responses and to move and focus in the ways that best support your unique being in the face of triggers and symptoms of traumatic response.
This workshop is especially for those healing from interpersonal trauma, in all of its expressions and spectrums. No experience is necessary; all bodies welcome.
Accessibility information: There are stairs to the space. If you need online access to my work, please let me know.
To register: https://www.vashondoveproject.org/events
ReGrowing Our Wings: Yoga for People Healing From Trauma
- LIVE ON ZOOM -
Saturdays, Jan 7th - Feb 11th, 2023
1:00PM-2:30PM ET / 10:00AM-11:30AM PT
Cost (sliding scale): $150 - $300 (6-week series) / $30-$60 (drop-in)*
Led by: Deborah King. Photo credit: Norman King
This program is designed as a cumulative series. Drop-ins are welcome with the understanding that we will be referencing previous weeks in practice.
Trauma is an injury, in relation to an event or life situation, that overwhelms the nervous system, altering the way we relate to ourselves, and the world. It is not a story that simply happened in the past; it creates an imprint of fear held in the body, creating a chronic and ongoing set of adaptive responses that continue to tax our entire systems. This imprint can show up in many ways, and may appear to be only in the mind. However, research shows us that trauma is a physical experience and is held in the body, directly affecting a person's thinking and how they show up in the world. For healing to occur, reconnecting to our bodies, their instincts, and their resources of feeling and wisdom can be crucial.
Yoga can be a wonderful tool in the healing process. The practice of yoga can allow us to create a safe space within ourselves to reconnect the parts of us that may feel severed or lost. As this reconnection occurs, yoga can teach us to calm our nervous systems with breath, physical poses, and meditation; and to gradually undo the chronic tension, pain, and emotional and physical responses resulting from the trauma’s imprint. Yoga also teaches us that we are already whole, and that our identity is not the experiences we go through, but the self that can touch on peace, self-understanding, and joy regardless of our circumstances.
In this workshop, we will use the lens of polyvagal theory to tap into the essence of yoga- your essential wholeness. You will learn to use the practices to read the messages in your symptoms and to address them according to what they tell you.
These practices are adaptable for all mobilities, and no experience is necessary. All bodies are welcome.
Participate LIVE on zoom. Zoom recordings will be emailed approximately 48hrs after each class to all registrants.
*Please note that when you opt to pay more (upon registration, after selecting “pay now,” simply add the dollar amount you’d like to add to the minimum cost before entering your credit card number) for this series it makes it possible for those in need to gain access to this course, and your generosity makes a real difference. Also, no one will be turned away for lack of funds-- it is important to us that this work is accessible to anyone who wants it. Please be in touch if you need to about the cost.
Questions and concerns: Email admin@yogajubilee.com
To register: https://www.yogajubilee.com/regrowing-our-wings
ReGrowing Our Wings: Yoga for People Healing from Trauma
IN PERSON
In partnership with The Dove Project
FREE
Saturdays in March 2022 1130am-1pm on Vashon Island
Masks and Proof of Vaccination Required.
Please register at: vashondoveproject.org
Immersion Series: With the Earth as our Witness
A Body-based Practice Circle for Dismantling White Body Supremacy
- LIVE ON ZOOM -
Fall Series: Wednesdays
October 6th - November 10th, 2021
6:30-8:30PM EST / 3:30-5:30PM PST
Tuition*: Sliding Scale $140 ($30/class) - $270 ($45/class)
Register: https://www.yogajubilee.com/with-the-earth
Co-Led by: Deborah King & Rosa Vissers
This 6-part series is an opportunity for white identified people to practice somatic skills of resilience and resistance needed to dismantle our white supremacy. We will emphasize working with our body and breath, coming from the understanding that racialized trauma lives in our cells—as does our resilience. We will move, breathe, and pause together, drawing on therapeutic yogic practices that support trauma recovery and nervous system regulation. Through understanding and integrating our somatic responses as we explore our whiteness, we aim to increase our capacity to show up in a positive way for racial justice.
This is a space to practice body-based and internal tools that make accountability possible, so that we may become more capable of acting on and for our collective liberation. We do this work of unlearning our racism individually and collectively. There will be ample time for relationship building, reflection, and community.
We welcome the gift of the presence of any Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who would like to join us (free of charge). If any BIPOC folks are interested in joining (at no charge), please be in touch at the email below.
A note from the facilitators: We offer this series from a place of humility as white-identified humans dedicated to the practice of somatic abolitionism (credit: Resmaa Menakem). This is a lifelong devotion—it is a practice, not an identity, and there is no time that we will be done. We believe a world without white supremacy is not only possible; it is the only way forward. We present this work in relationship and community with the leadership at Yoga Jubilee. Also, for confidentiality classes will not be recorded.
*No one will be turned away for lack of funds-- it is important to us that this work is accessible to anyone who wants it. Please be in touch if you need to about the tuition. Please know that 30% of the tuition will go towards Yoga Jubilee and 40% to Black-led groups/organizations. Participants will collectively decide which organizations will receive these funds.
Questions and concerns: Email admin@yogajubilee.com
The Resilience in Your Fingerprint: Yoga for Anxiety & Depression
Through The Yoga Tree
Sundays, January 10-February 14
10 am-Noon, via Zoom
Preregistration required.
$120 for the series
$25 per single session
The Resilience in Your Fingerprint: Yoga for Anxiety and Depression
A six week workshop utilizing polyvagal theory in yoga practice to heal the nervous system
This workshop will help you understand the ways you can adjust your yoga practice for your own unique system.
Based in my utilization of polyvagal theory and extensive work and teaching yoga techniques to address trauma, anxiety, depression, pain, and other issues, this workshop will help you read the messages of your nervous system and personalize practice in the process of healing.
My passion for therapeutic adaptations is ultimately about my passion for the individual finding their practice. Because each person is unique, each practice will be unique. One thing I have found key in using polyvagal theory as a lens is that the uniqueness in the way a person’ s nervous system responds is often the key to the way they need to work.
Your nervous system is like your fingerprint. It is unique in all the land.
Finding the resilience of the way we have survived, and the ways we are surviving, gives an opportunity to both respect and honor the journey while simultaneously making space to shift responses that cause distress.
So our resilience really is like a fingerprint- it is both unique and part of who we are- it doesn’t need to be acquired, just uncovered and trusted. In that way, it is the essence of yoga, which is about finding the wholeness you already are.
Week 1: Boundaries, Autonomy and Choice
Week 2: Orienting: Coming into present time and space
Week 3: The Gunas: Using Movement to discharge, melt, and calm
Week 4: Grounding
Week 5: Centering
Week 6: Breath
To register: https://www.yogatree.com/workshopsretreats.html
Photo Credit: Norman King
TIDES AND CYCLES: YOGA FOR HORMONAL BALANCE
In this workshop, we will focus on learning to use yoga to bring balance to the hormonal system. Adjusting the practices to address challenges from PMS to hot Flashes to joint stiffness that can arise from hormonal changes within a single estrogen-based cycle or through a lifetime’s journey will be addressed, with an emphasis on turning inward to hear the body’s wisdom.
There will be an overview of active practice, but we will emphasize the use of restorative poses, breath work, and supported inversions to balance the hormonal and nervous systems and uncover the benefits of deep relaxation.
Using different modalities in different parts of our cycles and using the practice as a way to attune into rather than ignore the rich communication of the changes in the estrogen-based body’s internal initiations month to month as well as through the major phases of hormonal life can dramatically ease discomfort with transitional symptoms, as well as overall hormonal health including energy regulation, metabolism, and the process of discovering a healthy relationship with body weight.
Students will leave with a deeper connection with the inner workings of their body, and an understanding of how to use both gentle and active practice to bring balance into hormonal transitions.
All people experiencing hormonal cycles are welcome! All levels, all bodies are invited, no experience necessary. I am happy to adapt for all mobilities, it helps me if you share your needs with me.
Through Yoga Tree:
Sunday, December 13, 10am-1230pm PST
via ZOOM
to register: https://www.yogatree.com/workshopsretreats.html
Photo Credit: Norman King
Photo Credit: Norman King