Trauma-Informed Yoga · Exeter & Online
Heal, grow, recover
Would you like to explore trauma-informed yoga or offer trauma-informed yoga to your community group? Contact us to explore some options.
Kayleigh offers trauma-informed yoga classes, courses, and workshops to individuals and groups including working alongside charity organisations to support people with a lived experience of trauma or people struggling with mental health concerns. Kayleigh is an Accredited Trauma-informed Yoga Teacher, certified by Yoga Pros.
Individual trauma-informed yoga sessions are £65 (up to 60 mins).
Questions
Common questions about trauma-informed yoga
- Is trauma-informed yoga only for people who have experienced trauma?
- No. It's designed to be safe and supportive for people healing from trauma, but its principles — safety, choice, gentleness and self-compassion — benefit everyone, including people who simply find general classes too fast or impersonal.
- Will I have to talk about what happened to me?
- No. This is yoga, not talking therapy — there is no requirement to share your story, and sessions never depend on it. If at some point you wanted to explore talking therapy too, that's available separately and entirely at your own pace.
- What if I need to stop during a session?
- Then you stop — resting, pausing or opting out of any practice is always explicitly welcomed. Every invitation in a session is exactly that: an invitation. You remain in control of what you do with your body throughout.
- What's the difference between this and a gentle yoga class?
- A gentle class is slower; a trauma-informed session is deliberately built around an understanding of how trauma affects the nervous system. That shapes the language (invitational, never commanding), the structure (predictable, with no surprises), the environment, and the teacher's training in recognising and responding to signs of distress. The article What is trauma-informed yoga? goes deeper.
- Can we book trauma-informed yoga for our charity or support service?
- Yes — Kayleigh has worked with charities and health services to bring trauma-informed yoga to their client groups, as one-off sessions or longer blocks. See yoga for organisations or get in touch to discuss what your service needs.