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workshops |The Veterans Yoga Project
A Program for Yoga Teachers: Mindful Yoga Therapy
for Veterans Coping with Trauma
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new dates
coming soon...
Friday 7:15 – 9:15pm
Saturday 12–7pm
Sunday 8:30am – 4:30pm
Join Suzanne Manafort and Daniel Libby as they share their experience working with Veterans with PTSD. |
This three-day teacher’s program will cover:
- Defining PTSD
- How yoga works for PTSD
- Core elements for working with trauma-affected Veterans
- Special considerations and specific techniques for working with Veterans using asana, pranayama, yoga nidra, and meditation
Continuing Education Units •
15 CEUs are available upon request. |
$275
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Suzanne Manafort - Director of Newington Yoga Center, is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She studied at Yoga Center Amherst with Patty Townsend, completing her 200 hour and 500 hour programs in embodyoga®. She also completed 200 hour and 500 hour programs with Beryl Bender Birch and a teacher training with David Swenson.
Suzanne serves on the board of the Give Back Yoga Foundation. She also works with Veterans with PTSD in a program called PPRP (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Residential Rehabilitation Program), teaching them yoga and its many practices to help them manage the effects of PTSD.
In 2009, she was designated a Wells Fargo Second Half Champion? for her work with Veterans.
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As a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Yale University,
Dr. Daniel J. Libby conducts research and psychotherapy with Veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related psychiatric disorders in the Connecticut VA Healthcare System, West Haven.
He conducts two weekly mindful yoga classes for Veterans suffering from PTSD and chronic pain and leads a study for the Evaluation Division of the National Center for PTSD examining the use of yoga and other “complementary and alternative medicine” practices in VA Specialized PTSD Treatment programs. |
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www.veteransyogaproject.org www.newingtonyogacenter.com/veterans |
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