When: May 24, 2024
Where: Riverbank Wellness Center 5259 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019, USA
Time: 6pm PST
Cost: $65
Join us for trauma-informed movement and meditation, rituals of care for your nervous system, and nourishing community. Grounded in trauma and nervous-system informed frameworks, this gentle + grounding session will invite attendees to channel quiet awareness and presence, find stability and safety in the body, and cultivate resilience. The postures and breath work are thoughtfully crafted to help uncover trauma imprints, support the healing process, offer tenderness and care to the nervous system, and lessen the grip that past experiences of trauma may have on the heart. Participants will be provided with tools to cultivate restorative rituals in their life and be held in a supportive and affirming space that reminds them that their sensitivity and softness are their most powerful forms of strength.
Participants will be invited to explore and identify rituals encouraging self and community care. This invitation honors each participants unique needs and wants, while exploring how we can heal and hold space in community in our time together. The importance of ritual as an act of radical self and community care dates back to our ancestors, and in this practice, we will work towards honoring our lineage and identifying and releasing the parts we embody that no longer belong to us.
All attendees will receive copies of two decks: The Ritual Deck by Dr. Sahar Martinez and Trauma-Informed Yoga Affirmation Deck by Zabie Yamasaki.
Zabie will have copies of her additional books and affirmation decks for purchase.
About Your Facilitators
Zabie Yamasaki, M.Ed., RYT (she/her) is the Founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga which is an organization that offers trauma-informed yoga to survivors, consultation for universities and trauma agencies, and training for healing professionals. Zabie has trained thousands of yoga instructors and mental health professionals and her trauma-informed yoga program and curriculum is now being implemented at over 50 college campuses and trauma agencies including the University of California (UC) system, Stanford, Yale, USC, University of Notre Dame, and Johns Hopkins University.
Zabie received her undergraduate in Psychology and Social Behavior and Education at UC Irvine and completed her graduate degree in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs at The George Washington University.
Zabie is widely recognized for her intentionality, soulful activism, and passionate dedication to her field. She is a trauma-informed yoga instructor, resilience and well-being educator, and a sought after consultant and keynote speaker. Her work has been highlighted on CNN, NBC, KTLA 5, and The Huffington Post.
She is a survivor, mother, partner, daughter, sister, friend, and activist. She has received countless awards in victim services and leadership, including the Visionary in Victim Services award from one of the largest rape crisis centers in California and the Voice of Courage Award from Exhale to Inhale. She is the author of the book, affirmation deck, and flip chart published by Norton: Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors, children's book published by PESI, Your Joy is Beautiful: The Magic of Knowing You Are Enough, Just as You Are, and children's deck H is for Healing: 52 Everyday Practices to Strengthen Children's Physical, Emotional, and Mental Well-being.
Dr. Sahar received her undergraduate in Psychology at Chapman University and her Masters in Couple and Family Therapy at Alliant International University. She completed her Doctoral Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Couple and Family Therapy at Alliant International University, where she was recognized for Outstanding Dissertation of the Year and was awarded the coveted AAMFT Minority Fellowship.
Dr. Sahar is trained in Somatic Attachment, Internal Family Systems and Emotionally Focused Therapy. These clinical lenses provide a blueprint to explore how we embody the narratives of our lives, alongside the stories we have inherited and hold within our souls and physical body.
Dr. Sahar is a trauma-informed therapist, educator, and consultant. Her work is grounded in holding space for healing and honoring the impact of the lived experiences in our lineage on our lives today. In addition to her clinical work, she is a mother, partner, sister, daughter, friend and advocate.