Human beings are designed to experience, endure, survive and evolve. New immigrants and refugees face significant challenges, offering an opportunity to extend yoga’s benefits. Collaborative trauma-sensitive yoga therapy can aid professionals in understanding unique needs while providing self-care tools, promoting community, and fostering empowerment, self-efficacy, and wellness.
Eligible for one YA credit and one IAYT credit
Mona Flynn, EdD, founder of Life Fit Yoga, is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT, ERYT500, YACEP), Pilates instructor and a TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercise) Advanced Provider. She specializes in blending these practices with safe, appropriate modifications for participants’ unique bodies, movement abilities and medical histories, while focused on centering, strengthening, and improving quality of life. She offers several live weekly group, online and in person classes, workshops, retreats, teacher trainings and a soon to be released evidence-based certificate course, Trauma-Sensitive Training for Mind-Body Professionals, 25 YA CECs. is seasoned in mind-body practices, with over 35 years in exercise physiology and teaching, blending preventive and rehabilitative therapies. Understanding the challenges of resettlement firsthand, and the potential of offering yoga for well-being, Mona founded The Yoga Connection, a 501c3 which aims to provide empowerment and community to immigrant and refugee women through a group yoga therapy class.