We are pleased to announce dates for the Pratyaagati Eating Disorder Group.
More information coming soon!
11/10 11/17 12/1 12/8 12/15 12/22 1/5 1/12 1/19 1/26 2/2 2/9 2/23 3/1 3/8 3/15
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Healing Grief through Mindfulness & Movement
Many of us hold unresolved grief. Is there a disappointment or loss from your life that stands in the way of your happiness now? Perhaps you feel you “should” be over it …but somehow you have trouble letting go. If you feel ready to engage in your...
Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Life experiences of loss or trauma can result in feelings of anxiety, sadness, agitation, and reactivity, as well as the symptoms of PTSD (e.g., flashbacks, hypervigilance, and nightmares.) These experiences live in our bodies, as well as our minds and hearts, and can manifest in subtle or obvious difficulties...
Infertility and Stress Reduction
Infertility is most often an unexpected experience that leads to physical and emotional stress. Individuals can often experience diminished feelings of personal power, as unexpected barriers to creating a family present themselves. Come explore the use of gentle yoga poses and breath awareness to calm the body and...
Yoga for Winter Blues
As daylight diminishes and the cold intensifies, our bodies’ biorhythms are affected. For some, a balance of energy and self-regulation become more challenging and the natural call to slowing down that winter evokes can result in feelings of lethargy and seasonal stress. Come explore the “skillful...
Self Compassion: Taming the Inner Critic
The harsh inner voice of self-judgment and self-criticism can cramp creativity, interfere with intimacy, and block adventure and joy. A crucial step on the path to healing, balance, and growth is making peace with our inner critic. Taming the inner critic brings a sense of freedom and possibility, sometimes never...
Meditation: Opening to What Is
Meditation practice encourages open-heartedly allowing whatever is arising in the present moment. The less we “fight” with experience, the less reactive we become, and the more present in our relationships and our lives. With regular practice, we can begin to meet all experience with an open heart, finding...
Mindfulness Tools for Health and Wellness
In this 8-week program, participants meet weekly for 2-hours to learn mindfulness meditation practices that have been known to reduce stress and anxiety and promote health and wellness. This includes guided instruction in a body scan, mindfulness meditation, and gentle yoga. Participants engage in discussions on stress management, working with...
Mindful Parents
Mindful Parents is a mindfulness-based series dedicated to parents of youth who are currently struggling with mental health issues. Mindfulness strategies will be practiced in a variety of ways for parents to learn how to apply these skills to parenting. Opportunities will be given for parents to also have...
Circle of Courage
Do you struggle with body image and disordered eating? Are you keeping these experiences to yourself? Is it difficult for friends and family to understand what you are going through? You are not alone! Many women find the experience of an eating disorder an extremely isolating experience. Together we...
Mental Conflict: Transformation & Deep Acceptance
A workshop utilizing methods from the IFS model of therapy and the Iyengar school of yoga to support participants in a deep investigation of the diverse and sometimes conflicting parts of the self. Each system offers complimentary tools to approach internal conflict through body-oriented identification of parts, group processing, and...
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Group
This is an ongoing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group that meets on Wednesdays from 11:00 - 12:30pm, led by Adrienne Slusky, LCMHC and Kristen Johanson, LCMHC. This group spends six weeks studying and practicing each DBT module or skill set. The four DBT modules emphasize skill building in the following...
Mindful Happiness
This is a brief, open-to-the-public mindful happiness course. All levels of experience are welcome. Experiential practices are research-based and practical. The Zen principle of “feeling perception” will be utilized.
Due to finacial support from a The Eleanor R. Liebman Foundation, the course will be co-funded by participant...
Pratyaagati…Journey Home
The Pratyaagati group is a unique offering that combines the mirror of yoga with experiential exercises, mindfulness techniques and relational elements. Participants are invited to encounter and experience themselves more fully in body, mind and spirit, individually and in relationship to others. Each week the group meets for an hour...
Eating Disorder Support Group
This is a therapist-facilitated, drop-in support group for women with eating disorders. Women over 18 only please. This group will be held every other Wednesday at the center. The next meeting is August 3rd 5:30-7pm.
This is free and there is no registration necessary.
Please call the center if you...
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Take a look at this short introduction video to learn more about Internal Family System's Therapy (IFS), presented by Dr. Richard Schwartz, a framework that some of our clinicians here use at VTCYT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E88q5z7WvSo
Or, check out the official IFS website, selfleadership.org
I often see people, whether they are new to yoga or seasoned practioners, place the fingers of each hand in Chin Mudra – a common yogic hand gesture, where the thumb and the index finger touch, while the other three fingers generally face the earth. When I considered introducing a regular yoga group geared toward stress reduction; I reflected on the ease and symbolism of this simple Mudra. This gesture represents the connected nature...
I grew up in a home where dinner meant sitting together as a family around the table. We talked about our day, we occasionally argued, but we always anticipated this time together. It was a part of our family culture.
After I graduated college, I began working at the NFI Hospital Diversion Program, where the daily schedule honored the importance of sitting together for meals and breaking bread. It’s surprising...
I am excited to offer a Meditation and Mindfulness workshop at VTCYT, which starts next Tuesday, Sept. 13. There are many concrete, measurable benefits from meditation -- decreased anxiety, enhanced immune system, better focus and concentration, improved relationships, and more -- but meditation at its best is not about fixing or improving anything. What becomes increasingly clear through sustained and regular practice is the paradox that what produces all these benefits is allowing everything to...
How can yoga assist in the healing trauma? What makes it effective and appropriate? These are good questions and they are being addressed formerly in research by Bessel van der Kolk and his associate, Dave Emerson, at the Trauma Center in Boston, as well as by other professionals on a national scale. I participated in the trauma-sensitive yoga teacher training program led by Dave Emerson and associates in May of 2009 and...
As we move through hectic and busy lives it is important to take time to “smell the roses.” I know as a parent of a seven year old there are many things to remember; school lunch, forms, baseball stuff, play dates, birthday parties…. The list goes on. Most parents I know hardly have time to breathe during the day, let alone find time for a mindful practice. Here are some...