"Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
This program is for those who are ready to step into the growth that comes from healing and integrating their trauma. We each live with different forms, and variants of trauma and how we react to the experiences we have been through is what makes or halts our healing.
Living with unprocessed trauma effects so many areas of our lives, but most importantly it seeps into our trust, our connection and our right viewing of other. Meaning when we have been neurologically pattered to see the world from a certain Trauma lens, it can make it nearly impossible to feel safe in the world. And this means it makes it incredibly difficult to feel safe in relationship to others. Even more so many of us that live with trauma may feel incredibly unsafe and dissociated in our own bodies. Meaning that we may have a difficult time accessing of true needs, boundaries and desires.
So what can we do to metabolize the traumatizing experiences we have had that have gotten us to this space of dissatisfaction within ourselves, and within our relationships? The first step is recognizing, and acknowledging our pain and our experience. We then need to give space to grieve and mourn this experience and the pain it has brought us. And finally we learn to integrate and step forward. This is not an easy process, but it is necessary for deep healing. And deep healing is needed in order to live a liberated life within our own body, mind and heart,
Moving from healing of trauma to our sexuality is a long bridge for many. Especially in cases of physical or sexual abuse. If you body has been a point of contention and a battlefield for your experiences, it may take time to come back into associating it with safety. But it is possible. So many individuals who have suffered trauma have had difficulty in sexual expression and liberation due to a lack of a safe container to allow themselves to surrender and trust.
But the beauty here is that if you are reading this, you are already deeply on your journey. You are curious, you are open, you are exploring your Self and your relationship to the world and others around you. This is a safe space for you to dive deeper. Into the shadows we may go, and dance with our lights. We embrace instead of turn away. We face instead of avoid. And we find another way, a better way to live our one unique life in these human bodies we've been gifted. And we love them, we enjoy them, we find ways to seek self pleasure, and collective....and we heal together.
4 Week Long Program Overview
Lectures include:
Week 1: Defining Trauma & Three Phases of Recovery with Trauma
Week 2: Attachment Theory, To Befriend the Body after Physical and Sexual Abuse, Neglect, Abandonment and Rejection.
Trauma Responses & The Window of Tolerance
Week 3: The Healthy Secure Interpersonal Relationship Dynamic
Post Traumatic Growth, Resiliency and Integration
Week 4: Tantric Perspectives on Sexuality, Activation, and Energetic Bonding
Live Calls
Self Regulating & Co-Regulating
Deeper Embodiment and Sexuality
How to improve our intimate relationships with Non Violent Communication, Agreements & Creation of Safe Containers
Classical Tantra & Neo Tantra Philosophy and incorporating into modern practice
Program includes meditations, journaling prompts and online interactive practices.
Tuition Cost
444 USD
2 partial scholarships offered to those with financial strain. Please email circumstances to email below for further information.
To reserve space and receive payment information contact
ECHO@ECHOFLOWYOGA.COM
Lectures include:
Week 1: Defining Trauma & Three Phases of Recovery with Trauma
Week 2: Attachment Theory, To Befriend the Body after Physical and Sexual Abuse, Neglect, Abandonment and Rejection.
Trauma Responses & The Window of Tolerance
Week 3: The Healthy Secure Interpersonal Relationship Dynamic
Post Traumatic Growth, Resiliency and Integration
Week 4: Tantric Perspectives on Sexuality, Activation, and Energetic Bonding
Live Calls
Self Regulating & Co-Regulating
Deeper Embodiment and Sexuality
How to improve our intimate relationships with Non Violent Communication, Agreements & Creation of Safe Containers
Classical Tantra & Neo Tantra Philosophy and incorporating into modern practice
Program includes meditations, journaling prompts and online interactive practices.
Tuition Cost
444 USD
2 partial scholarships offered to those with financial strain. Please email circumstances to email below for further information.
To reserve space and receive payment information contact
ECHO@ECHOFLOWYOGA.COM
TESTAMONIALS
" As someone who has done a lot of personal work and worked professionally in the fields of trauma resolution and wellness, I wasn't sure how much I would benefit from the Trauma to Tantra workshop. However, I gave into my curiosity and invested in it anyway. I was amazed at how relevant it all was to my life and my current experiences and I was blown away at how much NEW information I obtained. Echo's teaching style is a healthy balance of personable and professional and you can tell she has a plethora of knowledge to share and has done a lot of personal work herself. I left the workshop feeling energized, insightful and hopeful for a full recovery from my current symptoms related to trauma. But also I left with a sense of contentment and acceptance with the fact that healing might look differently than I imagine. The workshop inspired me to let go of my expectations around this and to stop trying to hold the reigns so tightly, to stop trying to control or rush my healing. Instead I feel a deep trust in the process and carry the reminder that this moment is where the medicine truly lays and that in staying present we hold great power. I left armed with more tools than I had prior and am excited to implement them. I could see shifts in others attitudes and hopefulness over the course of the workshop as well and to experience that as a collective, especially in such a short time, was so touching and beautiful. I highly recommend this workshop as well as Echo as a teacher. Her authenticity and transparency gives her an edge that allows for a feeling of safety in her presence and encourages an ability to dive deeper into practice, as well as gain confidence and a greater knowing of who we really are. I felt guided to look inward and to trust myself first rather than to look to someone or something outside of me and from that place everything is possible. "
--Anjali Libera
"The trauma to tantra workshop gave real-life tools that I immediately implemented. The trust, space, knowledge, and compassion Echo brings says wonders about her practice and this spirit as a teacher."
--Megan
"Where do I start??
Going through this course this week has been unravelling and healing for me. For the first time I feel like I can see myself and my patterns clearly, and I take accountability for my actions and my role in situations.
I’ve learnt so much. And if I were to share everything, I could write a whole book. There is so much depth, so much beauty within me that I have not seen in a long time, and this week I have written more than I have ever written in my entire life in terms of self reflection. I feel like if I were to start sharing, I would just overflow and I wouldn’t be able to stop.
And the beauty of it all is that I know that I’m only scratching on the surface and there is a lot more to discover, a lot more layers of the onion to unpeel.
Up to this point, I’ve always seen my healing as something external to myself – like a destination I had to reach, something in the distance, very far away from me. But I’ve realized now that it’s not “away” from me – it’s within me – it’s layers that I’m peeling and unravelling, skin that I’m shedding. I’m going back home to me. And this is course – what I’ve learned – is only one layer.
There is also a story I want to share that I feel maybe best encapsulates everything that I’ve learnt.
It’s been a year since I’ve been on this journey of self awareness. And I have learnt a lot theoretically, but not so much in a practical, real, every day sense. Despite learning all these theories, like narcissistic abuse, inner child healing, I have still continued playing out the same patterns and I have not been able to integrate my theoretical learning into my life, my thoughts, and the decisions that I make daily. I had all this knowledge but I haven’t been able to apply it to be place that was most important and the place I needed the most – the present moment. And I have allowed situations to take control of me and I haven’t been able to break out of old patterns.
This week I have seen real change in myself. And it’s really crazy to think that it’s only been a week since this course started. I feel like I have learned so much spiritually and emotionally this week than I have in the past 1 year. It became really apparent to me when I examined my relationship with my partner.
To give some context, we have been together for almost 5 years. We are very co-dependent in an unhealthy way. We are both anxious and avoidant attachers and we have both undergone trauma and we are both going through our own spiritual journey – in different ways.
Despite being together for nearly 5 years, we have a lot of trouble communicating. I realized, through this course, I have a very effective superpower of disassociation. I disassociate from my body – and because of the child sexual abuse, this was not surprising. But the surprisingly part I learnt was my ability to disassociate from my mind. Through journaling and reflecting this week, I realized it was a survival strategy for me to continue living in my house when I was a child. Growing up, my mom could say very cruel things to me. Unspeakable things. Things that I don’t even want to repeat ever because it’s horrible. And that’s where my superpower came in. Whenever she said something hurtful to me, I could block it out and forget. And that was what I needed to do to keep in living in that house. But I see now that that superpower has hindered me and is no longer serving me. Because I’m not able to listen if I perceive I am being threatened.
And by being “threatened”, I really just mean like if someone says something that I perceive as criticizing me, I will very skilfully be able to turn the entire situation around and be like, “well, what about you?” bla bla bla, as a way of deflecting the conversation from myself. My adaptive child was protecting me from hearing what I perceived as hurtful.
And it has hurt my relationship because we have been falling into the same patterns, which is – there is an issue – he brings it up – I perceive it as a threat – it escalates into a fight, because of my survival strategy, which is fight or flight – I fight – and he says something along the lines of “you are just like your mother” – and that’s so hurtful to me that I then turn into the victim and I cry and then I flee – and then he feels bad and comes around and apologizes – and then we hug and just move on. The original issue never gets resolved and it’s a vicious cycle. You can just imagine how damaging it’s been for both of us, because we haven’t been able to have difficult conversations and yet we’ve continued staying together because we are co-dependent.
This week we had another difficult conversation – something else that he brought up – he was just sharing his truth about a situation – and again I perceived it as a threat. But as it was happening, I felt it in my body. I felt my adaptive child coming up. I felt my chest tighten, my heart started beating faster and my body was getting ready to fight. And for the first time, I didn’t run away from it. I didn’t go into my fight mode. I noticed it. And I went into it. I went into that discomfort. And I breathed. And I told myself that I could handle those emotions. And that it was more important for me to be curious about his experience, and for him to feel like it was for him safe to explore those feelings. That was the same day we did the writing prompt about being able to create a safe space for ourselves. And as we were talking, I asked him – do you feel safe with me? Do you feel safe to have this conversation with me? And he said no. And I shouldn’t have been shocked, but I was – which just goes to show how out of touch I have been with my partner and with his reality. For the first time I actively listened. I had to repeat it back to him for myself to understand – and it was so hard. My brain couldn’t latch onto the words –it took me like 3 or 4 times to really be able to repeat accurately what he was saying back to him. But he met me with understanding. And that really reminded me of something Echo said in the course, which was – tell your partner how you feel and see how they react to it. If they are open, they can remain in your life. And I was met with openness and kindness.
I shared my truth with him, what I’ve learnt, and I turned the situation back on myself. I took responsibility for my role in our failure to communicate all these years. He said that was the first time we managed to have a conversation where he felt seen and heard and that didn’t escalate into a fight. And that’s big, because it took 5 years. I wanted to share this, because I wanted to share how this course has actually helped me practically in my life, not just theoretically. And at the end of it all, I feel more intimate, closer to my partner, than further away. And I feel closer to myself.
The biggest thing I’ve learnt is that just being aware and acknowledging things is enough. This whole time I’ve viewed healing as this big mountain that is so far away that I couldn’t overcome. But now my only expectation is to be aware, notice what comes up in my body, and breathe. And the healing will follow.
Thank you to everyone for sharing your stories – I have listened to them and I know that I’m not alone. And thank you to Echo for holding the space, sharing these invaluable lessons, you have touched my life in a profound way and I cannot express it in words. I hope that you can feel my love and gratitude. Thank you."
--Anonymous Student
" As someone who has done a lot of personal work and worked professionally in the fields of trauma resolution and wellness, I wasn't sure how much I would benefit from the Trauma to Tantra workshop. However, I gave into my curiosity and invested in it anyway. I was amazed at how relevant it all was to my life and my current experiences and I was blown away at how much NEW information I obtained. Echo's teaching style is a healthy balance of personable and professional and you can tell she has a plethora of knowledge to share and has done a lot of personal work herself. I left the workshop feeling energized, insightful and hopeful for a full recovery from my current symptoms related to trauma. But also I left with a sense of contentment and acceptance with the fact that healing might look differently than I imagine. The workshop inspired me to let go of my expectations around this and to stop trying to hold the reigns so tightly, to stop trying to control or rush my healing. Instead I feel a deep trust in the process and carry the reminder that this moment is where the medicine truly lays and that in staying present we hold great power. I left armed with more tools than I had prior and am excited to implement them. I could see shifts in others attitudes and hopefulness over the course of the workshop as well and to experience that as a collective, especially in such a short time, was so touching and beautiful. I highly recommend this workshop as well as Echo as a teacher. Her authenticity and transparency gives her an edge that allows for a feeling of safety in her presence and encourages an ability to dive deeper into practice, as well as gain confidence and a greater knowing of who we really are. I felt guided to look inward and to trust myself first rather than to look to someone or something outside of me and from that place everything is possible. "
--Anjali Libera
"The trauma to tantra workshop gave real-life tools that I immediately implemented. The trust, space, knowledge, and compassion Echo brings says wonders about her practice and this spirit as a teacher."
--Megan
"Where do I start??
Going through this course this week has been unravelling and healing for me. For the first time I feel like I can see myself and my patterns clearly, and I take accountability for my actions and my role in situations.
I’ve learnt so much. And if I were to share everything, I could write a whole book. There is so much depth, so much beauty within me that I have not seen in a long time, and this week I have written more than I have ever written in my entire life in terms of self reflection. I feel like if I were to start sharing, I would just overflow and I wouldn’t be able to stop.
And the beauty of it all is that I know that I’m only scratching on the surface and there is a lot more to discover, a lot more layers of the onion to unpeel.
Up to this point, I’ve always seen my healing as something external to myself – like a destination I had to reach, something in the distance, very far away from me. But I’ve realized now that it’s not “away” from me – it’s within me – it’s layers that I’m peeling and unravelling, skin that I’m shedding. I’m going back home to me. And this is course – what I’ve learned – is only one layer.
There is also a story I want to share that I feel maybe best encapsulates everything that I’ve learnt.
It’s been a year since I’ve been on this journey of self awareness. And I have learnt a lot theoretically, but not so much in a practical, real, every day sense. Despite learning all these theories, like narcissistic abuse, inner child healing, I have still continued playing out the same patterns and I have not been able to integrate my theoretical learning into my life, my thoughts, and the decisions that I make daily. I had all this knowledge but I haven’t been able to apply it to be place that was most important and the place I needed the most – the present moment. And I have allowed situations to take control of me and I haven’t been able to break out of old patterns.
This week I have seen real change in myself. And it’s really crazy to think that it’s only been a week since this course started. I feel like I have learned so much spiritually and emotionally this week than I have in the past 1 year. It became really apparent to me when I examined my relationship with my partner.
To give some context, we have been together for almost 5 years. We are very co-dependent in an unhealthy way. We are both anxious and avoidant attachers and we have both undergone trauma and we are both going through our own spiritual journey – in different ways.
Despite being together for nearly 5 years, we have a lot of trouble communicating. I realized, through this course, I have a very effective superpower of disassociation. I disassociate from my body – and because of the child sexual abuse, this was not surprising. But the surprisingly part I learnt was my ability to disassociate from my mind. Through journaling and reflecting this week, I realized it was a survival strategy for me to continue living in my house when I was a child. Growing up, my mom could say very cruel things to me. Unspeakable things. Things that I don’t even want to repeat ever because it’s horrible. And that’s where my superpower came in. Whenever she said something hurtful to me, I could block it out and forget. And that was what I needed to do to keep in living in that house. But I see now that that superpower has hindered me and is no longer serving me. Because I’m not able to listen if I perceive I am being threatened.
And by being “threatened”, I really just mean like if someone says something that I perceive as criticizing me, I will very skilfully be able to turn the entire situation around and be like, “well, what about you?” bla bla bla, as a way of deflecting the conversation from myself. My adaptive child was protecting me from hearing what I perceived as hurtful.
And it has hurt my relationship because we have been falling into the same patterns, which is – there is an issue – he brings it up – I perceive it as a threat – it escalates into a fight, because of my survival strategy, which is fight or flight – I fight – and he says something along the lines of “you are just like your mother” – and that’s so hurtful to me that I then turn into the victim and I cry and then I flee – and then he feels bad and comes around and apologizes – and then we hug and just move on. The original issue never gets resolved and it’s a vicious cycle. You can just imagine how damaging it’s been for both of us, because we haven’t been able to have difficult conversations and yet we’ve continued staying together because we are co-dependent.
This week we had another difficult conversation – something else that he brought up – he was just sharing his truth about a situation – and again I perceived it as a threat. But as it was happening, I felt it in my body. I felt my adaptive child coming up. I felt my chest tighten, my heart started beating faster and my body was getting ready to fight. And for the first time, I didn’t run away from it. I didn’t go into my fight mode. I noticed it. And I went into it. I went into that discomfort. And I breathed. And I told myself that I could handle those emotions. And that it was more important for me to be curious about his experience, and for him to feel like it was for him safe to explore those feelings. That was the same day we did the writing prompt about being able to create a safe space for ourselves. And as we were talking, I asked him – do you feel safe with me? Do you feel safe to have this conversation with me? And he said no. And I shouldn’t have been shocked, but I was – which just goes to show how out of touch I have been with my partner and with his reality. For the first time I actively listened. I had to repeat it back to him for myself to understand – and it was so hard. My brain couldn’t latch onto the words –it took me like 3 or 4 times to really be able to repeat accurately what he was saying back to him. But he met me with understanding. And that really reminded me of something Echo said in the course, which was – tell your partner how you feel and see how they react to it. If they are open, they can remain in your life. And I was met with openness and kindness.
I shared my truth with him, what I’ve learnt, and I turned the situation back on myself. I took responsibility for my role in our failure to communicate all these years. He said that was the first time we managed to have a conversation where he felt seen and heard and that didn’t escalate into a fight. And that’s big, because it took 5 years. I wanted to share this, because I wanted to share how this course has actually helped me practically in my life, not just theoretically. And at the end of it all, I feel more intimate, closer to my partner, than further away. And I feel closer to myself.
The biggest thing I’ve learnt is that just being aware and acknowledging things is enough. This whole time I’ve viewed healing as this big mountain that is so far away that I couldn’t overcome. But now my only expectation is to be aware, notice what comes up in my body, and breathe. And the healing will follow.
Thank you to everyone for sharing your stories – I have listened to them and I know that I’m not alone. And thank you to Echo for holding the space, sharing these invaluable lessons, you have touched my life in a profound way and I cannot express it in words. I hope that you can feel my love and gratitude. Thank you."
--Anonymous Student