Bend & Bloom: Trauma-Conscious Embodied Healing
A Women’s Group for Grief Support
This group series is designed specifically for women. It integrates trauma-informed yoga and somatic psychotherapy to support and heal the mind, body, and spirit from the impacts of trauma, grief, and loss. This group also incorporate expressive art therapies to help you explore, transform, and recover from painful experiences as you process through difficult emotions in meaningful ways.
Through honoring our bodies and expressing our thoughts through more than words, we allow our minds and our hearts the space we need to heal.
Trauma, grief, loss, and unprecedented stress all show-up with similar challenges: anxiety, fear, depression, isolation and difficulty carrying on with the normal activities of life. Giving expression to a traumatic experience is hard, but it’s also essential to our ongoing psychological health. Being able to talk to a caring person is great, but sometimes words are not enough.
If you’re struggling with any of these complex emotions that are intruding on your ability to function normally, or if you’re wanting to process through your trauma, grief, or loss in a holistic way that is meaningful (beyond just talking), while connecting with other women in the process, then this group is designed for you.
This soul-nourishing group will blend together mindful movement (gentle vinyasa-flow yoga; restorative yoga, yoga nidra), guided meditation, modified interpersonal group psychotherapy, somatic therapy, and expressive art therapy practices.
Each session is intentionally tailored to promote healing and relaxation of the mind and body. The atmosphere will be structured to nurture your soul, and will include tea, aroma therapy (essential oils), and yoga/meditation props.
All high-quality materials for expressive art activities are provided. Yoga mats, bolsters, blankets and blocks are also provided. You’ll receive your own art journal as a gift to welcome you to the creative healing process that you can use at home and/or in sessions during this 10-week series.
The group size will be small, capped at 8 women.
This group runs for 6 sessions held Sundays from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST, August 20th - October 1st, 2023 (skipping September 10th).
Participants are encouraged to attend all group meetings so you can collectively bond together on your healing journeys, and continually support each other through the series.
This group meets in-person at Nectar Community: 219 W Antrim Drive Suite G, Greenville, SC 29607.
The cost of this group is $495 (payment plans available by request)
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $450 for full series if paid by July 30th, 2023
No experience required.
This group is facilitated by Courtney Chandler, LPC, ATR-BC, AADC, E-RYT.
Courtney is a Board-Certified Art Therapist and Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher with a decade of experience facilitating therapeutic groups in mental health facilities, schools, detention facilities, community centers, wellness retreats, and substance use treatment centers.
Courtney is also a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Grief Informed Professional who integrates aspects of Somatic Experiencing (SE) trauma therapy, trauma-conscious yoga methods, EMDR trauma therapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction into her therapeutic practices.
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