Have you have ever been too intimidated or just don’t feel safe enough to join a self defense or martial arts class?

Then join us and Mike and Lindsey walk you through some easy to use self-defense maneuvers that will help you build confidence and strength in your body and mind. With more than 20 years of martial arts experience, they will be able to guide you into building greater autonomy in your movements.

We hold a safe, trauma informed space for participants of any fitness level. You will learn dynamic bodyweight techniques designed for real world challenges. You will also be offered a small meditation to ease integration and calm your nervous system.  

This class allows our Peaceful Warriors to grow stronger as a community as we treat each individual with dignity and self respect. A safe container is held so everyone can have the ability to grow at their own pace. 

Together we will overcome the barriers that block all the rich layers of strength and courage within us.

Join us for this four week Art Class series where we will take your kiddo on a creative journey and help bring out that little artist.

This multi-media class will rotate through different crafts and modalities to help your pint sized kiddo learn, explore, and create in a safe and inclusive environment.

Target ages for this class is ages 5-12, but if you've got a kiddo outside that range, please reach out so we can see if we can accommodate.

No supplies needed, but please wear clothing that you don't mind getting a little messy (just in case of spills, etc).

As we process trauma through the mind, we must process it through the body.

Whether we’ve been in a vehicle accident, lost a loved one, or anything in between, our body keeps the score. Our nervous system is wired like branches of tree. And when we experience a traumatic event, those branches get pruned.

But those branches can regrow, and that’s what we focus on with our Empowerment Protocols. By using these evidence-based techniques that have been thoroughly tested and peer reviewed, we offer self-regulation techniques that help each client process trauma through the body.

Over this 6-week series, Lindsey will be guiding you through classroom instruction to help you understand the biomechanics of trauma, educating you on how your brain and nervous system responds to various events. From there, she will guide you through movement techniques and meditative practices that help integrate the trauma helping you to calm the nervous system and move past blockages that may have been holding you back.

This is an excellent compliment to any talk therapy that someone may be engaged in, but just know that you do not have to talk about any traumatic experience or share any personal details about your life in this series. This series is designed to give you a whole new set of tools that you can plug and play in real time in your life to create the conditions for healing by linking your body to your mind.

These protocols are wildly effective and are based on the clinical research of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (Author of The Body Keeps the Score), Dr. Richard Miller (Author of The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, and many other books and clinical research), Dr. Ida Rolf (Biochemist and founder of Structural Integration protocols now called “Rolfing” in her honor), Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn (Author of Full Catastrophe Living and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School), Dr. Bruce D. Perry & Maia Szalavitz (Authors of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog) and many other fantastic clinicians who have dedicated their lives to the research and data collection of how trauma needs to be processed through the body.

One month of unlimited yoga included in your purchase!

If you purchase this series, you will also be given an unlimited yoga membership to Sanford Yoga & Community Center for the duration of this series allowing you to take as many yoga classes as you would like during these four weeks.

Scholarships available!

If cost is a barrier for you, please reach out. We have a limited number of scholarships that we are able to give out. Please send your request to sanfordyogaandcommunitycenter@gmail.com to make your request.