somatic group intakes

Throughout the year I hold regular small group intakes to enable Trauma Informed Yoga to be more accessible.

Our group intakes are held periodically throughout the year in person at Growth & Gratitude Wellbeing Studio in Hoghton. You can find out more about the courses on offer below & join our waiting list for the next co-hort.

Next Intake

Finding Safety Within

12 week Trauma Informed Yoga Programme

This 12 week programme aims to bring stabilisation to your nervous system & psychoeducation surrounding how the nervous system works as well as recognising your own nervous system states.

Throughout the 12 weeks, you'll cover key areas of how to begin approaching a sense of safety in the body, allowing the body the slowly return back to presence.

Orientation & Grounding

Through orientation & Grounding practices we'll begin to understand how to bring a sense of safety back to the body using a bottom up approach. Developing an understanding of why & how this helps to begin the process of recovering from trauma & how to develop a practice that works for you as an individual.

Self-Regulation

Understanding & learning to befriend our nervous system allows us to approach our symptoms with compassion & without judgement. We can then start to learn self-regulation techniques & how they may differ in our approach depending on what state our nervous system is in.

Slowly being able to make appropriate choices for Vetral, Sympathetic & Dorsal states to help us return back to Ventral when we need it.

Befriending the Nervous System

As we begin to find practices that aid in bringing the body back into presence, we'll take a look into our nervous system states; what each state might look like for us leading with curiosity & discovering our internal language to understand which state might be modulating our behaviours.

Integration

Our last quarter of the programme focuses on integrating our understanding & stengthening the techniques we've found to help us.

We'll recognise areas of growth & progress, identify practices to take forwards and looking ahead to what might be next as well as the power of the group & closure.

What might group sessions include ?

Slowing down

Our group intakes aim to begin the process of slowing down so that our nervous system can begin to find a sense of safety. For some, slowing down can feel daunting & so our trauma informed yoga programmes aid in equipping you with learning how to re-establish safety within using bottom-up approaches.

Short practices

Each session builds on the the previous session. While we have a structure for our programmes, we lead from the group & our co-created safe space to begin learning to meet the body & presence through short practices. A typical session might include mindfulness & gounding, somatic movement, discussions & workbook exercises to help integrate our experiences.

open dialogue

Each session openly accepts dialogue to help you understand & discuss any sensations you might notice during the sessions, to ask questions or simply find connection with others & the group. As sessions are based on the body's response to Trauma, it's a safe space to heal on a physiological level without needing to re-tell or speak about our Trauma.

establishing safety

Our sessions are co-created around what safety looks like for you. Creating boundaries for yourself and the group in the beginning of our programme with reguar markers should you want to close a session down early. Together we create a safe space so you can create a sense of safety within yourself.

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"The [12 week] programme has brought a lot of peace into my day to day due to being given to tools to cope with triggers and intrusive thoughts. I am now able to regulate my emotions and feel as though I can be present and more fulfilled during the good days. The people around me can see a huge change in me."

- Trauma Informed Yoga 12 week programme participant

"I am so grateful I found this course. It was a welcoming and calm environment that has really altered my life in the best way. I continue to use the practices daily and feel like there are only brighter times ahead."

- Trauma Informed Yoga 12 week programme participant

Upcoming Intakes

May Intake - Now Open

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6th May 2025

29th July 2025

Tuesdays 6pm - 7pm

Growth & Gratitude Wellbeing Studio, Hoghton, Preston

Please note there is a one week break in this Intake on 27th May due to training

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September Intake

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9th September 2025

25th November 2025

Tuesdays 6pm - 7pm

Growth & Gratitude Wellbeing Studio, Hoghton, Preston

Join Waiting List

(Takes you to Growth and Gratitude's booking page)

To find out when booking opens for our upcoming intakes you can join the waiting list. Those on our waiting list are informed first when intake opens and have the option to book the course prior to being made available for public booking.