Join Our Community Learning Series
Using Yoga to Empower Survivor Healing
Join Exhale to Inhale’s 2026 community learning series to deepen your understanding of yoga’s influential role in survivor healing.
Trauma disconnects us from our bodies, our agency, and our sense of self-worth. To heal, survivors need opportunities to safely reconnect with themselves. Yoga offers a pathway back to that connection.
Whether you are a yoga teacher, a professional working with survivors, or someone on your own healing journey, this series will offer tools, insight, and reflection to support your practice and deepen your understanding and connection to the why behind Exhale to Inhale’s work.
You will leave each session with tools you can begin to use right away - whether in your life, your work, or your personal practice.
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While participation is free, donations are welcome and appreciated to sustain and grow our efforts to bring trauma-informed knowledge to as many people as possible.
Upcoming Session
Using Yoga to Disrupt Oppression and Support Survivors Through Embodied Non-Harming
Systems of oppression impact lives in complex and often invisible ways, especially for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. These systems are often unintentionally reinforced, and can deepen harm, limiting individuals’ access to safety, support, and healing.
In Exhale to Inhale’s first Community Learning Series session of 2026, we’ll explore how systemic harm shows up in everyday life, and how the ethics of yoga – particularly the principle of non-harming (ahimsa) – can support personal and collective healing. We’ll examine how intentional, embodied actions rooted in non-harming can begin to shift the systems we live in, starting with ourselves and extending to our communities.
This session is open to all survivors and those who support and care for survivors.
This session is FREE to all - though we appreciate a small donation to support our ability to bring these resources into the community.
with Jenna Conner on February 27th, from 1-2pm EST / 10-11am PST
Past Sessions
Yoga for Folks with Trauma and Physical Disabilities
True yoga is accessible to anyone who wishes to practice. However, general classes often focus on non-disabled people or those who have been practicing yoga for some time; prioritizing a workout over a healing experience.
This Exhale to Inhale community learning session, hosted by Adaptive & Accessible Yoga Teacher Rodrigo Souza, will introduce the concept of creating an inclusive yoga classroom where everyone feels they belong.
Yoga teachers will leave this session better equipped to provide yoga to individuals with physical disabilities, and who may have experienced trauma, with the mission of creating safer, more accessible, yoga spaces.
This session is FREE to all - though we appreciate a small donation to support our ability to bring these resources into the community.
with Rodrigo Souza and Sophia Holly
Caring for Ourselves and Our Communities
April's Community Learning Series centers Sexual Assault Awareness month in this special collaboration with Halli Faulkner (JD, MAEd, YACEP).
As a survivor-leader, trauma-informed educator, and yoga therapist, Halli has found her life's purpose in holding healing spaces for survivors. You're invited to join this experiential session with Halli and Exhale to Inhale as we create and explore our toolboxes for self-and-community-care and explore the question of how we care deeply for both ourselves and others. Session will include journaling, reflections, and group discussion.
with Amy Apgar and Halli Faulkner
Understanding the Impact of Birth Trauma
For many people, giving birth can be a traumatic experience. However, it is possible to prepare for the experience of birth and it is possible to heal from birth trauma with a body-based healing lens. This session is meant to provide education around the faults of the systems of giving birth and how one might seek support to have a supportive experience. We will also discuss how this trauma can live in the body and how yoga might help one to recover from the experience. This session is open to all- those who have given birth, plan to give birth, or simply want to learn more about the process.
Participants will leave with:
A basic understanding of the process of labor and birth
How we can recover from the trauma of birth when we have support
Why birth can be traumatic and the faults in the systems of giving birth
How to seek support before and after giving birth and how yoga can help
Why it is especially important for DV/SA survivors to have support
Why it is important for the community to understand birth trauma and how they can support their community in or outside of a yoga class
with Ellyn Gerry and Jenna Conner
Yoga for Personal and Social Change
with Susanna Barkataki and Julie Fernandez
While often practiced for personal well-being, yoga's roots are deeply intertwined with ethics, justice, and community care. In this session, we’ll explore how yoga’s principles can guide us toward self-liberation while addressing social issues such as power and privilege. Together, we’ll reflect on how reconnecting with the essence of yoga can support sustainable personal growth and meaningful social change.
Participants will leave with:
An understanding of how yoga principles such as Ahimsa, Svadhyaya, and Seva can foster personal empowerment, collective healing, and meaningful social change
Knowledge of how power and privilege shape yoga spaces and how honoring yoga’s roots fosters equity and justice
The ability to reflect on one’s relationship with power, privilege, and social responsibility through the lens of yoga philosophy
Practical strategies for applying yoga philosophy off the mat to engage in sustainable social change efforts