Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Nervous System Resilience
Feel safer, more empowered, and more at home in your body.
With Kelsey Maeve, SEP, TCTSY-F, RYT-500
Saturday, Nov 1, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
@Dwell Yoga, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Fee: $25 per person
This gentle, choice-based class is grounded in TCTSY (Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga), an evidence-based practice for complex trauma. You’ll be invited to move at your own pace, make choices that feel right in your body, and notice sensations in ways that support nervous system regulation and resilience.
We’ll explore:
Making choices that honor your body’s cues
Creating rhythms that support regulation
Noticing sensations to strengthen connection and resilience
Open to all ages, all levels, and all bodies—including folks with injuries and anyone who has felt like “yoga isn’t for me.” Expect simple options, lots of agency, and zero pressure to perform.
What to bring: Comfortable clothes; mats/props provided by the studio (or bring your own if you prefer).
Accessibility: Floor-and-chair options offered; all movements are invitational.
Modalities That Shape the Work
Somatic Experiencing® (SE)
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-based approach to healing trauma and chronic stress. Developed by Dr. Peter A. Levine, SE works by gently guiding the nervous system out of fight, flight, or freeze responses and toward greater regulation and resilience. Rather than revisiting traumatic events in detail, SE helps clients tune into bodily sensations and renegotiate incomplete survival responses at a pace that feels safe and empowering.
Learn more at traumahealing.org
Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)
TCTSY is an evidence-based somatic practice developed at the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA, under the leadership of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. Rooted in yoga and informed by neuroscience and trauma theory, TCTSY offers a healing pathway for trauma survivors through invitational language, interoception, and personal agency. Rather than emphasizing external forms or goals, TCTSY supports participants in making choices about how to move and feel in their bodies on their own terms.
Learn more at traumasensitiveyoga.com
About the Facilitator
Kelsey Maeve (she/her), is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), certified Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F), and trauma-informed educator with 15+ years in the healing arts.
In 2014, she became the first certified TCTSY teacher in California, and has since trained hundreds of students and professionals across the country. She brings warmth, nuance, and deep embodiment to her teaching, drawing from her private practice in Oakland and a background in somatic movement, expressive arts, and trauma recovery.
What students are saying about Trauma Sensitive Yoga:
“I loved being in a community where all of me (and my trauma) was welcome and held with gentleness and invitation.”
”Before working with Kelsey, I experienced anxiety and freeze states linked to emotional trauma. Now, I have less anxiety and feel more empowered in my embodied safety and inner guidance.”
”Kelsey is very attuned and brings compassionate presence, inquiry and guidance, with her heart, soul, poetry and humour. I felt really seen, cared for & supported in this grounding and inspiring container.”
”I loved all the beautiful body-based, creative and symbolic approaches Kelsey used. I loved the way she brought in education about the nervous system which helped me understand the process on an even deeper level.”
”This course changed my life. I learned how to be kinder to myself and that changes everything.”