Trauma-Informed Yoga

Come home to your breath, your body, and your embodied resilience.

At Empowered Spaces, our trauma-informed yoga isn’t about perfect poses — it’s about creating a space where you can slow down, breathe, and feel more at home in yourself. Our approach is supportive, attuned, and centered on helping you notice what feels grounding, steady, or nourishing in your body.

Whether you’re brand-new to yoga or have practiced for years, you’re welcome here exactly as you are. No flexibility or experience required — only a willingness to listen to your body and move at a pace that feels right for you.

Choose what feels right for you: a weekly class, one-on-one yoga sessions for healing, or a private yoga class for your group or organization.

Why Trauma-Informed Yoga?

Our trauma-informed approach is:

  • Choice-centered — everything is an invitation.

  • Accessible & attuned — honoring your pace and what feels right for your body that day.

  • Somatic & nervous-system guided — supporting nervous system nourishment and embodied healing.

  • Inclusive & anti-oppressive — affirming all bodies, identities, and lived experiences.

  • Relationship-based — grounded in safety, consent, and connection.

You don’t need experience, flexibility, or to move a certain way.

Just your body, your breath, and permission to go slowly.

We all carry so much in our bodies — stress, stories, protection, and the subtle ways we brace or soften to make it through the day.

Trauma-informed yoga honors theses truths and offers a space to meet yourself with presence, compassion, and choice.

Each offering supports your body, your nervous system, and your sense of connection — within yourself and in community.

Ways to Practice With Us

Join a Yoga Class

For a soft place to land, breathe, and belong.

Our classes offer a welcoming space to breathe, move, and reconnect with yourself in community.

Each class is guided with care for your nervous system and offers choices so you can move at the pace that feels right for you.

Join us if you want to:

  • Build grounding and connection practices that support you beyond the mat

  • Reconnect with your breath and presence

  • Move in ways that honor your body’s cues, pace, and needs

  • Be part of a warm, welcoming, non-judgmental community

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One-on-One Yoga Sessions for Healing

Personalized, attuned support for your healing journey.

One-on-one sessions offer a gentle, personalized space to explore breath, grounding, mindful movement, and somatic awareness with the full presence of a trauma-informed teacher.

These sessions give you room to settle, notice, and reconnect in ways that feel safe and doable.

1:1 sessions can support you in:

  • Rebuilding trust and safety in your body

  • Practicing boundaries and self-attunement

  • Moving through stress or overwhelm with compassion

  • Growing your capacity for presence, rest, and regulation

  • Having a dedicated space that’s just for your healing

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Private Yoga for Groups

For a shared space to ground, connect, and breathe together.

We offer trauma-informed group sessions tailored to your group’s needs. These gatherings support staff, teams, communities, and organizations in reconnecting with themselves and each other.

Sessions can focus on grounding, restoration, nervous system care, stress relief, burnout, vicarious trauma, connection, or collective well-being.

A good fit for:

  • Workplaces supporting staff wellness

  • Helping and healing professional

  • Educator or school-based groups

  • Nonprofits or community organizations

  • Support groups or healing communities

  • Retreats or trainings

Whether you need a one-time class or ongoing support, we create a space that nurtures grounding, connection, and shared care.

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What Makes Yoga at Empowered Spaces Different

We focus on embodiment, empowerment, connection, and choice.

Yoga here is:

Somatic

Helping you listen to your body, follow your impulses, and grow your capacity for connection and relationship.

Trauma-Informed

Honoring the realities of stress, overwhelm, and oppression — and creating practices grounded in safety, consent and attunement.

Accessible for All Bodies

Offering variations, props, chairs, and support for every mobility level.

Anti-Oppressive + Justice-Rooted

Honoring identity, lived experience, and cultural context.

Nervous-System Guided

Offering pacing and sequencing that invites your nervous system to soften, settle, and reconnect.

Relational + Compassion-Focused

Leading with presence. With warmth. With genuine care.

This is yoga that meets life as it is — messy, beautiful, overwhelming, hopeful — and supports you in moving through it with more grounding and agency.

  • A warm, welcoming, consent-centered environment

  • Accessible movement with options

  • Invitations, not directives

  • Support with breath and grounding

  • Space to pause, rest, or modify anytime

  • No pressure to perform or “do it right”

  • A pace set by your body

Here, you never have to push through.
You get to honor what you need.

What to Expect in a Trauma-Informed Yoga Class

Meet Our Trauma-Informed Yoga Teachers

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Trauma-informed yoga is an invitation to return to yourself — gently, slowly, with care.

We’re honored to offer trauma-informed yoga, therapeutic yoga sessions, and accessible group classes to the St. Louis community.