About Yoga Where U R Planted

What is Yoga Where U R Planted?

Embody. Empower. Actualize.

Yoga Where U R Planted uses a trauma-informed framework adaptable to unique individuals, emphasizing collaboration toward self-sustained wellness and the importance of community (big and small). YWURP seeks to discover how evidence-based approaches to yoga, movement and mindfulness can complement other health and wellness modalities to metamorphose lives.

✧ Values ✧

  • I ensure I have the knowledge to facilitate a safe journey, providing clear disclaimers, contraindications, checks to make sure and referrals when necessary.

  • We collaborate to co-create practices and intentions so you have resources developed in our work, ANYWHERE. They can be waiting for when needed. I hope YWURP clients actually outgrow me (but hopefully stay in touch via our community here, and know that YWURP is always there, if you ever would like to recharge their resources for wellness). This is in line with a complete rejection of guru models - including other permutations like expert status, which foster power dynamics and inhibit true connection, collaboration and mutual growth.

  • I never try to be what I am not, and therefore have a trusted network of others operating with the same population to refer when needed and to help clients reach true health, safely. My services are complementary to medical and psychological care, not a replacement. I can work in a greater network of people you chose to support you.

  • Relying on practices and philosophies that draw on ancient wisdom traditions. Informing what we do with research and clinical applications from interpersonal neurobiology, somatic psychology and more.

  • Trauma is anything that overwhelms your ability to cope. This can vary in type, duration, the personal experience of intensity and along many other variables. It is uniquely personal. Stress, whether acute, prolonged, chronic or overwhelming can affect people’s perceptions, experiences, behaviors, beliefs. So, it’s my duty to continue to seek out more information to ensure our sessions are created and facilitated in ways that are of utmost benefit to you, whoever you are.

    I am also trained to offer Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). This is for someone facing acute trauma or the effects of a traumatic event or events, as well as complex trauma and disordered dissociation. If this is something you’re interested in, please contact me!

  • With training and lived experience with disordered eating, body image, body dysmorphia and eating disorders, I try to bring a body neutral or body image conscious approach to everything I offer. However, some offerings can be even more tailored to a population facing issues with food and self. For more tailored offerings, contact me!

the overarching method

  • Core Self-Systems

    Cultivate embodiment, self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-care & emotional resilience. Tone & balance the nervous system. Support gut health & digestion. Nourish respiratory & cardiovascular systems.

  • Other-Systems

    Open yourself to secure attachment & healthy boundaries. Safely transcend hypervigilance. Experience co-regulation. Release no-longer-needed adaptations, vestiges of relational or other (T)trauma and stressors.

  • Self-Actualization

    Nurture the agency to envision a future rooted in authentic sense of self. Solidify a framework to make intentional choices towards this life. Adapt this plan as you change & grow.

The Yoga Where U R Planted Approach

  • YWRUP offers a happy medium in between science and spirit. The methodological toolbox is not all neurobiology, nor psychology, not all philosophy, nor all asana or body-based. The YWURP style is open to the possibilities that could be effective for you. I am for what works. I am open-minded. All ideas relate back to where you are now. YWURP offers Bespoke yoga focused on safe embodiment, practical and experiential knowledge. Not tick-box training. No rush. Take time to apply what we learn in your life. At your own pace. You are where you need to be. Any chip away at what is holding you back makes space to replace it with something you choose. Mindfully. CONSCIOUSLY and with awareness. I'm willing to go in the directions that you're open to, because I'm into exploring whatever possibilities (I'm qualified in) that can improve your quality of life. This is your choice. Your journey. Each person is unique. I don't push anything on you because I truly do not believe in anything that doesn't serve you, right now.

  • Moving away from binge culture and mindless consumption or self-improvement. 

    Finding the unique expression of the 8 limbs of yoga (which including self-study, non-harm, breathing, movement, concentration, etc.) and other yoga philosophical concepts in your life, right now, is integral to YWURP's approach.

    Patanjali's Yoga Sutras posits personal sovereignty and the exploration of how to live yoga in one’s own life are seen as some of the key pursuits of yoga.

  • YWURP views you though koshic and other wholistic models, which view health as an amalgam of the interactions between different layers of your existence: a bio-psycho-social-spiritual self view. This means that practices can deal with your physical body, your breath and other aspects of your energetic body, your emotions, your wisdom and thoughts and your core or central essence.

  • Part of a whole-person approach includes considering a person from a spiritual lens. Spiritual can mean a wide variety of things for different people. This can include:

    • Going outside, being in nature

    • Gardening, tending plants

    • Being with animals, tending animals

    • Finding meaning and connection in creative expression

    • Volunteering or supporting community and other social improvement initiatives

    • If for you spiritual means religious — I can leave space for your personal faith system in your wellness plan and bespoke practices. We can discover a language and methods that you're comfortable with and that honor your beliefs. However, I cannot integrate religion directly into our sessions together, as that is not my place nor my area of speciality or authenticity.

    • Much More!

  • Currently, I am qualified as a:

    • Yoga facilitator in a variety of modalities (yin, restorative, vinyasa, hatha, trauma-informed, trauma-sensitive)

    • Breathwork/Pranayama facilitator

    • Yoga Therapist

    • Wellness Coach

    To ensure I’m facilitating sessions in a way that is safe and beneficial for you, I will regularly check-in on the efficacy of my approach, our interactions/relationship and your general feedback.

    I’m dedicated to an Openness and an Acknowledgement of Qualifications and a Team Approach.

    This means that if it becomes apparent I am not qualified to support you right now, I will provide you with resources or referrals for a better fit.

  • Ever-ready to learn more, seeing what my clients crave and need and seeking ways to give that to them where I am qualified. As a result, sometimes I do need to take breaks for continued education and self-care/reflection. During this time, I will still regularly check in and have a series of curated messages and offerings during this absence. I cannot offer what I don't have and what I don't know.

Specific traditions or methodologies that inform what you will encounter in Yoga Where U R Planted Offerings:

  • Yoga Therapy

  • Trauma-Informed Yoga

  • Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

  • Hatha Yoga

  • Therapeutic Yin Yoga (to practice feeling or safely defining an edge)

  • Non-Striving Vinyasa Yoga

  • Mindful Self-Compassion

  • Neurobiological and Psychological Theories on the Nervous System

  • Practices to Encourage Somatic and Sensory Intelligence

  • Eating-Disorder & Body Image Informed Approaches

  • Yoga Philosophy and Yogic Models

  • Breathwork and Traditional Pranayama Techniques

  • Diverse Concentration and Meditation Exercises (guided, active, passive, visualizations, body scans, etc.)

  • 3 Wisdom Traditions Wellness Coaching Methodology (Yoga, Ayurveda, Psychology)

  • Linguistic Representations of Self, Theories on Inner Voice and Parts

  • Reflective Writing Prompts and Thought Exercises Which Foster Self-Inquiry

YWURP = Ancient techniques and wisdom coupled with today's world and scientific understanding, applied to your unique life.