An Interview with Sandra Maurer, co-founder of Terra Firma. We discuss how trauma-informed yoga can help calm the nervous system and allow the brain to process difficult emotions.

Learn about how it works, who it’s for, and how yoga instructors can create safer spaces in their studio classes.

Sandra is a Registered, Experienced Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (E-RYT) through the Yoga Life Institute in Pennsylvania, Certified Birth Doula (Birth Arts International), BA in Art Therapy (Arcadia University), Trauma-Informed Yoga Trained through Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery and Firefly Yoga International. Sandra has completed the Advanced Provider training through Postpartum Support International.  Additionally, Sandra is currently completing her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Adler Graduate School and is a therapist working with individuals and families at Mindful Families.  She has over 10 years teaching experience as a yoga instructor, working in various clinical and public settings including Hennepin County Health Care’s Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorder program and the Emily Program, a comprehensive eating disorder treatment facility.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resma Menakem
• Dianne Bondy – Yoga for Every Body
• Amber Karnes – Body Positive Yoga
• Terra Firma’s professional training program
• Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: A Practical Guide
• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

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