Empowered Spaces

✨New Series with Laurie starting in July✨

Finding Ground is A Yoga & Meditation Series for Nervous System Healing in Community.

This 4-week yoga and meditation series is to help you reconnect with yourself, calm your nervous system, and find steadiness—both within and around you—during uncertain and challenging times.

If you’re feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or in need of a gentle retreat, this series is here to support you—whether you’re new to yoga and meditation or already have a practice.

The practices and teachings of yoga offer a path of slowing down, tuning into the wisdom of the body, and releasing stuck energy and emotions.

Practicing in a shared space adds to these already-powerful benefits by fostering community, connection, and support.

Each session will include an intentionally-sequenced practice of:

✨gentle yoga asana (movement/ physical shapes)
✨yin yoga (a slow, meditative practice that involves holding seated or reclining shapes for longer durations)
✨breath work, meditation, mudra (symbolic hand gestures)
✨opportunities for reflection (with optional sharing).

You’ll also receive encouragement and guidance for building a simple home practice, including audio recordings to support you between sessions.

Over our four weeks together, we’ll explore what it means to feel grounded—physically, emotionally, and in community.

This series is based on the teachings of The Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method.

Laurie teaches in a trauma-informed way: offering choices throughout the practice, inviting each participant to move at a pace that feels physically and emotionally safe, and guiding with verbal cues and demonstration (no physical touch).

Sign up for the whole series or drop in.

🗓️ Tuesdays, 5:30-7:00pm
July 7-28, 2026

Your grief is NOT a disorder. Your hypervigilance is NOT a flaw. Your body’s response to an unsafe world is NOT something to be fixed.

Dominant culture has spent a long time teaching us to mistrust ourselves, to see our reactions as problems, our pain as weakness, our emotions as disorders, our nervous systems as broken.

That’s not an accident. Pathologizing human responses to harm keeps people focused inward, on what’s “wrong” with them, rather than outward, on the conditions that caused the harm.

It’s easier to prescribe a diagnosis than to reckon with the world that made the wound.

And so many of us have internalized that story.

We’ve sat with the shame of not being able to “just get over it.”

We’ve tried to manage, suppress, push through, wondering why we can’t seem to function the way we’re “supposed to”.

We’ve been handed frameworks that locate the problem inside our bodies, inside our minds, inside us, as if we arrived broken, rather than having been broken down.

But your bodymind has been doing exactly what it needed to do.

The flinch, the freeze, the way you go somewhere else when things get too loud, these are not failures. They are intelligence.

They are the evidence of a nervous system that has worked extraordinarily hard to protect you in conditions that were never designed to help you thrive.

At Empowered Spaces, we don’t start from the assumption that something is wrong with you.

We don’t position ourselves as the experts on your inner life.

We walk alongside you, as you begin to turn back toward yourself and remember what your body, what you, have known all along.

Healing here isn’t about reaching some fixed endpoint or learning to function better within systems that were never built for you.

It’s about reclaiming your own internal authority. Trusting yourself again. Finding your way back to the wisdom that was always yours.

You don’t need to be fixed, my dear friend. You need space to remember.

With love and care,
Kelly