Marianna Maver

I offer very gentle Yoga classes both in my studio and in the community with a focus on body awareness and anxiety management for middle aged and elder adults, to whom I also offer seated Yoga classes. My primary interest, however, is teaching Trauma Informed Yoga. For 5 years (until funding cuts brought the program to a close), I taught the first Trauma Informed Yoga classes offered as a part of programming at a public mental health agency in Michigan. My special focus when teaching trauma survivors is on creating a sense of embodiment; recovering , managing and expanding on a sense of moment to moment awareness (vs "dissociation"); and developing a sense of physical and social safety within the Yoga classroom.