Amy Secrist

Tag: EMBER

  • Teaching Embodied, Mindfulness-Based, Emotional Resilience in School

    This article is an introduction to my work with PreK-12 students, parents, and educators. My work is grounded in trauma-sensitive yoga pedagogy & praxis, neuroscience, and polyvagal theory upon which I’ve built a school-based curriculum, The Way We BE Together. Below you’ll find a bit of theory, some practice, things I wish I’d have known,…

  • The Power to Be: Trauma Sensitive Practice and the Capacity to Be Fully Alive

    The Power to Be: Trauma Sensitive Practice and the Capacity to Be Fully Alive

    An Experiment Notice if you’re feeling curious.  If you are, I invite you to try an experiment with me.  The experiment is to notice your embodied experience of language.  This means noticing your body’s response to words and phrases.  Another way to say this is noticing how words and phrases feel in your body, or,…