I am the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE) in Massachusetts, where I coined the term, "trauma-sensitive yoga". CFTE addresses trauma in high-risk communities worldwide by leading innovative, body-based training and education for mental health and movement practitioners, grounded in decades of research and a commitment to compassionate, transformative care. Our first project included completing and publishing the first study ever funded by the national Institute of Health in the U.S. to look at yoga for trauma.I am the author of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment (Norton, 2015), as well as Coauthor of Overcoming Trauma through Yoga (North Atlantic, 2011).Prior to becoming a yoga teacher in 2001, I had a 10-year career as a Social Worker, which culminated in the position of Director of the St. Ambrose Family Inn (a shelter for homeless families in Dorchester, MA) and with one year of study at the Smith School for Social Work.Specialties: Nonprofit management, program management and implementation, research, teaching, trauma, writing, group class facilitation, training, yoga instruction, trauma-sensitive yoga, and teamwork.
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