Self Compassion & Trauma Workshop

Exploring trauma-informed self compassion approaches to manage the effects of trauma:

This 2 hour session is for those who are interested in understanding the physiology of trauma and to learn simple practices that can foster self compassion and post-traumatic growth.

There will be an opportunity for Q&A’s on yoga therapy and trauma recovery.

Investment:
General: $45 | Members/Concession: $40
Online: $30

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Facilitators:

Dr Shanti Shanti Kaur, PhD, C-IAYT
brings the ancient teachings of Kundalini Yoga into modern medicine. She has taught Kundalini Yoga since 1971 and began to teach people with chronic or life-threatening illness in 1986, during the AIDS epidemic. She is founding director of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology, with the mission to bring Kundalini Yoga into healthcare. She is a Certified Kundalini Yoga Therapist, a Medical Family therapist, and a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga mentoring lead trainer for Levels 1 and 2. Dr. Khalsa is a charter member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and served on the team that developed IAYT Educational Standards for Yoga Therapy Training. She developed and directs the accredited 1,120-hour Kundalini Yoga Therapy Professional Training, in 49 countries. Her Kundalini Yoga program for people living with HIV is featured in the book, Yoga as Medicine by Timothy McCall, MD. And her groundbreaking work in Kundalini Yoga Therapy is in Yoga Therapy and Integrative Medicine: Where Ancient Science Meets Modern Medicine.

Billie Atherstone / Siri Bhagvati, C-IAYT, Prof. Trainer
has been working in the field of health sciences and yoga for 20+ years.  She is a Kundalini Yoga Therapist and teacher, a Professional KRI Teacher Trainer and is a somatic therapist.  Since 2014, Siri Bhagvati has focused on Yoga Therapy with the Guru Ram Das Center (grdcenter.org) and is a member of the faculty team, teaching open courses and courses within its professional accredited Kundalini Yoga Therapy training.  In her clinical work, she has been successfully running specialised courses and one on ones for people in the recovery of trauma, PTSD and health recovery. This year she will be beginning a three-year study, funded by the NHMRC in Australia, on Kundalini Yoga and its effect on trauma aimed at those who have experienced sexual assault in their adult years.