Meet Alice, a Paris-based yoga teacher who crafted a trauma-informed yoga program for overloaded executive women to improve their mental health and wellbeing. 

Following our 8-week training in trauma informed yoga, Alice created a yoga program for 30-40 year old women with high levels of stress and anxiety, depression, burnout and exhaustion, who are likely unaware that they're carrying trauma. 

Rest and Release with Yoga: 10 Weeks to Build a Healthy Routine Towards Rest is Alice's signature online program. It seeks to address a well-known but chronically under-resourced systemic challenge: that professional women (who are often mothers) tend to put their own wellbeing below others’ and lack the time, self-confidence and motivation to practice regularly.

Not only that, but they have limiting beliefs around their worthiness for self care.

Alice identifies how in high-functioning, executive circles of professional women, it’s seen as a weakness to talk about mental health struggles - and especially if you’re a mother because people imagine it should be painless and seamless, nothing but a pleasure.

She wants to provide a space where these women are safe to say that they’re not ok, where they can fill their own cup and have a mindset reset.

In Alice’s words, “I want to normalise resting, slowing down and prioritising mental health among busy, professional women with accessible, adaptable yoga. My aim is to support my clients to build their own easy, realistic and replicable yoga routine with daily tools, tailored to the individual so they can manage stress and anxiety in the moment, boost their energy levels and mood, create mental clarity and calmness, sharpen their concentration and introduce positivity to their lives.”

We wish Alice the best of luck in her onward teaching journey!

Here’s what she had to say about her time in the training:

Interested in becoming a trauma informed yoga teacher with an emphasis on taking your teaching off the mat and into the world?

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