The Resilience in Your Fingerprint: Yoga for Anxiety & Depression
This workshop will help you understand the ways you can adjust your yoga practice for your own unique system by utilizing the polyvagal theory to heal the nervous system.
Based in Deborah’s utilization of polyvagal theory and extensive work and teaching yoga techniques to address trauma, anxiety, depression, and pain, and other issues, this workshop will help you read the messages of your nervous system and personalize practice in the process of healing.
Deborah’s passion for therapeutic adaptations is ultimately about her passion for the individual finding their practice. Because each person is unique, each practice will be unique. One thing Deborah has 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, 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.
$150/ series
$30/drop in
Based in Deborah’s utilization of polyvagal theory and extensive work and teaching yoga techniques to address trauma, anxiety, depression, and pain, and other issues, this workshop will help you read the messages of your nervous system and personalize practice in the process of healing.
Deborah’s passion for therapeutic adaptations is ultimately about her passion for the individual finding their practice. Because each person is unique, each practice will be unique. One thing Deborah has 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, 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.
$150/ series
$30/drop in
Wednesdays 1:00-2:30pm
April 15-May 20
Taught by,
Deborah King
I have been teaching yoga since 2001, and I am a lifelong practitioner, having grown up with a mother who taught yoga and creative movement, and who passed on to me her kinesthetic way of being in and understanding the world.As I began to train professionally as an actor when I was a teenager, and later at The Theatre School at DePaul University, my study of yoga deepened too.
I have studied under a wealth of remarkable teachers in many eclectic traditions including the Iyengar, Viniyoga, Ashtanga, Anusara, Vijnana, and Integrative Yoga Therapy traditions.I began teaching while pregnant with my first child. I received my certification from Eight Limbs Yoga in Chicago in 2003 under the guidance of Per Erez, Miguel Latronica, and Carla Douros, and went on to assist in the following trainings, as well as presenting modules on prenatal and postnatal yoga. My work with pregnancy and following pregnancy spiraled into to a fascination with the therapeutic applications of yoga and this led me to apprentice with Iyengar teacher Gabriel Halpern for two and half years and to begin my own private practice, often adjusting the practice for therapeutic needs.
Now in Seattle, I teach full time both publicly and privately. I am fortunate to teach a large span of approaches to a wonderfully diverse spectrum of students: everything from Vinyasa classes to alignment-based hatha, to Gentle and Restorative classes and classes adapted for the needs of specific conditions. My passion is discovering the unique practice for each person.
I use my extensive understanding of alignment in an experiential way to guide my students to explore the story and the process of their body system, uncovering, unwinding and also celebrating the asymmetries that make us human.
Currently, I am pursuing my IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) certification as a yoga therapist at the 800-hour level through Integrative Yoga Therapy at Kripalu, so that I may continue to expand my passion and understanding of the healing potential of yoga and my ability to make the practice accessible to all.
I have studied under a wealth of remarkable teachers in many eclectic traditions including the Iyengar, Viniyoga, Ashtanga, Anusara, Vijnana, and Integrative Yoga Therapy traditions.I began teaching while pregnant with my first child. I received my certification from Eight Limbs Yoga in Chicago in 2003 under the guidance of Per Erez, Miguel Latronica, and Carla Douros, and went on to assist in the following trainings, as well as presenting modules on prenatal and postnatal yoga. My work with pregnancy and following pregnancy spiraled into to a fascination with the therapeutic applications of yoga and this led me to apprentice with Iyengar teacher Gabriel Halpern for two and half years and to begin my own private practice, often adjusting the practice for therapeutic needs.
Now in Seattle, I teach full time both publicly and privately. I am fortunate to teach a large span of approaches to a wonderfully diverse spectrum of students: everything from Vinyasa classes to alignment-based hatha, to Gentle and Restorative classes and classes adapted for the needs of specific conditions. My passion is discovering the unique practice for each person.
I use my extensive understanding of alignment in an experiential way to guide my students to explore the story and the process of their body system, uncovering, unwinding and also celebrating the asymmetries that make us human.
Currently, I am pursuing my IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) certification as a yoga therapist at the 800-hour level through Integrative Yoga Therapy at Kripalu, so that I may continue to expand my passion and understanding of the healing potential of yoga and my ability to make the practice accessible to all.