Movement & wellness
Therapeutic Yoga
A trauma-informed yoga practice designed to support healing, build body awareness, and reconnect you with yourself.
Yoga as a healing practice
Therapeutic yoga at Mind Body Align is not a fitness class. It's a carefully designed practice that supports the nervous system, builds somatic awareness, and creates a felt sense of safety in the body. Led by certified therapeutic yoga instructors with clinical training, our classes are accessible to all levels and adapted to support those working through trauma, anxiety, stress, and life transitions.
Trauma-informed from the ground up
Every class is taught with trauma-informed principles: choice-based language, no hands-on adjustments without consent, options for every pose, and an emphasis on internal experience over external form. You're always in charge of your practice. The goal is to help you feel more at home in your body, not to achieve a particular shape.
Choice-based
Every instruction is an invitation, not a command. You decide what feels right in your body.
Nervous system aware
Sequences are designed to support regulation, calming an activated system or gently energizing a depleted one.
Clinically informed
Our instructors understand trauma, attachment, and the mind-body connection at a clinical level.
What we offer
Group classes
Looking for ongoing group yoga classes? We partner with The Alignment Collective, a nonprofit offering affordable small group movement classes in Portland.
Private sessions
One-on-one yoga sessions tailored to your specific needs, goals, and history.
Retreat integration
Yoga is woven into our international retreats as a complement to EMDR therapy and somatic work.
Insurance & fees
Therapeutic yoga may be covered by insurance when provided as part of a mental health treatment plan and a mental health diagnosis is present. Accepted plans include Aetna, Providence, Moda, Optum, UnitedHealthcare, First Choice Health Network, UMR, Regence BlueCross BlueShield, and Kaiser Permanente. General wellness classes are not billable to insurance, though sliding scale options may be available. Reach out to discuss your coverage and options.
Come as you are.
For small group yoga classes, visit our nonprofit community partner. For therapeutic yoga or post-retreat integration work, reach out directly.