Name: Mindful Flow with Mercedes (Trauma Informed & Low Sensory Yoga)
Start: 2025-12-12T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-12-12T19:30:00-08:00
Location: New Tides Counselling and Wellness

Sign up ahead of time necessary at [www.newtides.ca/classes](http://www.newtides.ca/classes) \- first time visiting our space for a yoga or expressive arts class is free\!

**Have you ever felt overwhelmed or overstimulated in a yoga class, or worried about even showing up in the first place? Or perhaps you were looking to connect a little more with yourself rather than feel like the focus is on exercising or pushing yourself to look a certain way?**

A lot of us have had experiences of feeling out of place in yoga classes, or as if it didn’t wind up quite feeling like we were expecting it to!

*As the teacher paces around behind, you glance at the person next to you, trying to figure out where your feet are supposed to go next - (what was it that the teacher just said?) while feeling hyper aware of the fact that no one else is in child’s pose, though that seems like a really nice place to be at the moment…. thinking “I don’t feel great in this position but don’t really know what else to do and even if I did, then I would be the odd one out…. **I thought I came here to relax, but I can’t get out of my head….”***

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*If ANY of this sounds familiar, we hope this will be the place for you to develop a different relationship with yoga, or expand the relationship you already have!*

In a trauma-informed, low sensory hatha yoga class with Mercedes, you can expect to start with a grounding practice, shift into a gentle flow, and end with a breathing practice and savasana. **There will be soft music playing, low lights, no scents or smells, and no hands-on assists.** The class will always have an invitational nature to it - you can choose what forms you do, you might choose pause, or move a different way, and you’ll be offered lots of different options for forms and for movement or stillness.

**You’ll be invited to slow down and get curious about how different forms and different types of movement feel in your body, and invited to check-in with your emotional and physical experiences throughout the class**. Yoga’s roots will be named and acknowledged throughout the class. There will be room for moments of **levity, joy, and laughter, as well as moments of stillness and calm**.

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