Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery

with Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Live Yoga with Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Join Dr. Arielle Schwartz for her upcoming therapeutic yoga class, focusing on vagal tone, stress reduction, and trauma recovery. All classes are donation based.

Recommended props: a mat, 1-2 blocks, strap, and blanket 

Save the Date for Upcoming Live Yoga Classes:

  • Vagus Nerve Yoga w/ Dr. Schwartz September 6th
  • Vagus Nerve Yoga w/ Dr. Schwartz October 4th

September 6th, 2025
9:00 AM MST
Zoom

All classes are donation based. If you feel moved to do so, you may donate here.

Dr. Arielle’s Yoga for Trauma Recovery

Therapeutic yoga helps you to become increasingly flexible—not just of the physical body but in your nervous system. In her classes, Dr. Arielle helps you learn how to regulate the functioning of your vagus nerve with techniques such as altering the rhythm of your breath, practicing mindful body awareness, and exploring physical yoga postures to create greater choice about your level of arousal or activation.
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With an emphasis on self-driven healing, Arielle’s classes engage these key principles:

  • You are your own best teacher.
  • Honor your body, your pace, and let your breath be your guide.
  • Each posture is an opportunity to explore.
  • There is nothing to perfect and no goal to achieve.
  • Stop and rest as often as you would like.
  • Let this practice nourish your body, mind, and soul.
  • Listen to the cues you receive from your body, mind, and breath about the state of your nervous system.
  • Follow your instincts and make the practice a unique expression of you.
  • Have fun and let yourself find your inner joy.

On-Demand: Post-Traumatic Growth and Yoga

My new self-paced five-part online course with Yoga International combines science backed research and insights from somatic psychology with gentle, trauma informed yoga practices to support your healing from the inside out.

Post Traumatic Growth and Yoga
In this course you’ll learn:
  • Yoga for trauma recovery and vagus nerve regulation
  • Core concepts in somatic psychology and the neuroscience of trauma
  • How to identify and respond to your body’s stress signals
  • Daily tools for grounding, breathwork, and nervous system support
  • Trauma-informed movement, mindfulness, and meditation
  • 5 types of therapeutic yoga interventions

Through a blend of concise lectures, embodied yoga practices, and guided breathwork and meditation, you’ll discover the body’s natural ability to heal, adapt, and thrive—no matter what your past experiences have been.

Whether you’re navigating trauma recovery, seeking emotional regulation tools, or simply craving a deeper, more compassionate connection to yourself, this course offers a path forward.

Decolonizing Yoga

Please join me in helping to reduce the harm done from the Western cultural appropriation of yogic wisdom traditions.

In aims to participate in decolonization efforts, I acknowledge the recency of yoga within the United States as compared to the rich and extensive history of these traditions in Bharat/India which date back thousands of years.

While I am not from India, yogic traditions have enriched my life since I was 7-years old when my parents brought the joy of yoga into my life. I/we owe a great deal of gratitude to the teachers and historical wisdom holders that have come before me, specifically those of Indian descent.

If yoga is a tree, it emerged in the subcontinental land of Bharat/India enriched in the history of Vedic and other native traditions. When this tree of yoga branches out to reach new lands, and its roots are severed from the Mother Tree we risk losing the depth of spirituality that is the sap within these practices leaving us with deadened or hollow wood. However, if we cultivate and tend to the roots of yoga by honoring that connection to the Mother Tree in India, our yogic tree retains it’s powerful energetic, herbal, aromatic, medicinal qualities from root, to bark, to leaf, to sap, to flower to fruit to its seeds.

Nandani Narayanan LCSW, CMT, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT

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Yoga Class Recordings

If you are unable to make it to a live class or are looking for more Vagus Nerve Yoga practices, you can view all of Dr. Schwartz’s recorded classes on YouTube.