Trauma Informed Yoga with Taryn

The body has its own story to tell, and its own healing to experience.

When the body holds onto stuck energy and trauma, illness, chronic fatigue, dis-ease, and/or other health conditions may manifest.

Through a trauma-informed approach, yoga can serve as a pathway to holistic healing that supports your body, mind, heart, and spirit. Its practice can amplify the release of what is no longer serving you, and can help you to recover from past stressors enabling you to live more fully in the present.

Try the FREE ONE MONTH trial to see how it flows for you!

Simply sign up for an account, you won’t be charged until four weeks after your sign up date. Cancel at any time.

Yoga Your Way. Anywhere. Anytime.

Practice SHE RECOVERS® Trauma Informed Yoga with Taryn from the comfort of your own home and on your own schedule.

Featuring unlimited access to a nourishing selection of over 90 themed classes, this online yoga program consists of recorded sessions varying from 5 – 60 minutes so you can select a class that works best for your schedule. Each session has a unique recovery-focused theme – allowing you to choose the class that resonates most with what you need at any moment.

Not a “yoga person”? We got you.

Taryn’s classes are invitational and designed to meet you exactly where you are – all levels are welcome – it doesn’t matter if you can touch your toes or stand on one leg. Invitation to release perfectionism, shake off expectations, and follow your body’s lead.

Learning that fits your lifestyle.

Your monthly subscription includes a library of yoga classes, guided meditations, and other resources. Whether you have a few minutes, a full hour, or somewhere in between – there will be a class or resource that will meet your needs in any moment.

Roll out your mat. Choose your experience.

Every class has a different theme. We will focus on dropping into our hearts and connecting with our breath, body, inner peace, strength, and resilience.

An embodied + collective approach to healing.

Your subscription includes access to a private SHE RECOVERS Trauma Informed Yoga group where you can connect with like-hearted individuals.

“Taryn’s yoga classes are like no other. Her holistic approach to her teaching always leaves me feeling that my mind, body and spirit have been nurtured and strengthened.”

~ CATHY ~

Why Yoga for Recovery?

Yoga is important because – as we state in one of our SHE RECOVERS Intentions & Guiding Principles – “Recovery is a journey to wholeness – we take care of our mind, body, emotions, and spirit.”

In many parts of the world we have become good at including opportunities for healing the mind and spirit when on a path of recovery (talk therapy, support groups, 12 step programs, etc.), and while these are essential for many, they exclude the healing of our bodies.

When it comes to trauma especially, unless we process and release the experience from the body, illness, chronic fatigue, dis-ease, and other health conditions may manifest. Our bodies also deserve to heal from the chronic stress we may have put it through prior to embarking on a journey of recovery.

Trauma informed yoga can complement your patchwork of recovery and serve as a pathway to holistic healing. Join Taryn as she takes you on a gentle, trauma-informed journey of exploration that will help heal your body, mind, and spirit.

“Taryn possesses such an amazing energy that is warm, welcoming and inclusive to all. She has THE BEST voice! Since moving away from Victoria I’ve never found a yogi who measures up to her – SO EXCITED FOR HER VIDEOS! I can’t wait to bring her into my living room!”

~ WENDY ~

What’s in store?

As soon as you purchase your subscription, you can access Taryn’s extensive library of themed yoga classes – including her six-session signature recovery series below.

Heart Space

Balance the energy around your heart to help heal from codependency, isolation, depression, or fear of intimacy.

Issues in Your Tissues

Nikki Myers, from Y12SR, teaches us that everything that happens to us in our lives, we store in our bodies.

Resilience

Resilience is like a muscle – the more life throws at us, the more opportunities we have to strengthen our resilience and thrive.

Feel It To Heal It

We have learned that feelings won’t kill us – but running from them might.

Grounding Practice

Are you often anxious? Overwhelmed? Unsettled? Use this practice to find your center and get grounded.

Crimes Against Wisdom

If you have been hearing yourself saying, “I know I shouldn’t, but I am going to do it anyway” – this class is for you.

“SHE RECOVERS Trauma Informed Yoga is IT. This is the missing piece of my recovery. I feel held, seen, supported and connected to myself and my body in a way I have never experienced before. Sometimes I laugh and cry in the same session. It is amazing how much can move through and out of my nervous system in such a short time, and I love that I get to choose a theme and duration that feels right for me. THANK YOU Taryn & SHE RECOVERS!”

Try one month for free!

As a gift from us, we invite you to try the program for one month for free! After that, the monthly subscription is only $19.99 / month – less than one drop in yoga class at a studio. Every dollar of your monthly purchase goes towards supporting the SHE RECOVERS mission to redefine recovery, inspire hope, end stigma, and empower women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves and help other women to do the same.

Subscriptions are set to renew automatically each month. You can cancel the renewal at anytime.

Need only the trauma informed yoga video series?

Get access to six of Taryn’s recovery-themed classes to support you as you dive deeper into your recovery and wellness journey.

This offer is for the following sessions only: Heart Space, Resilience, Grounding Practice, Issues in Your Tissues, Feel It To Heal It, Crimes Against Wisdom.

“I had such an awful experience the first time I tried Yoga. The Instructor stated that my chest MUST touch my knees. As a woman living in a plus-size body I felt so ashamed that I couldn’t make this happen. I knew Yoga could help me heal, but I didn’t try it again for years because of the shame I experienced in that class. I finally tried SHE RECOVERS Trauma Informed Yoga with Taryn Strong and I immediately felt at home. The invitational guidance and empowering cues helped me fall in love with the practice and with my own body. It is a cornerstone of my recovery patchwork.”

Hi! I’m Taryn.

I am a founder of the SHE RECOVERS® Foundation (with my mama, Dawn Nickel). I am also in recovery from substance use disorder, trauma, disordered eating, self-injurious behavior, codependency, and all of the things that manifested as those things; shame, low self-worth, low self-esteem, and being afraid of using my voice.

Today, I know, for a fact, that everything I have been through – every heartbreak, addiction, trauma, insecurity – has taught me to lead with my heart and affirmed to me that we must be supported to find and follow individualized pathways and patchworks of recovery. Yoga is my recovery pathway.

Since I began teaching yoga in 2007, I have led over 50 yoga for recovery retreats (including a retreat at Kripalu), presented at several Yoga conferences, and have co-taught alongside Elena Brower. I am also the creator of the SHE RECOVERS Trauma Informed Yoga philosophy, program, and teacher training.

I am also a recovery coach, aromatherapist, and herbalist. Aand, I am so honored to weave my personal and professional experience within the realm of recovery with my love for yoga and holistic healing modalities into the SHE RECOVERS Trauma Informed Yoga philosophy, program, and teacher training.

I am a firm believer in anti-oppressive practices and strive to bring an empathic and invitational approach to healing that can empower women to find and follow individualized pathways and patchworks of recovery. I am passionate about recovering out-loud, leading with courageous vulnerability, smashing the stigma often associated with mental health issues, trauma and substance use, and serving as a dDirector on the SHE RECOVERS Foundation Board.

I live, create, work and play with my beloved partner, infant son, and two dogs within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking Peoples (Saltspring Island).

I hope you will join me on this journey of recovering through the body. You are worthy of the time spent on your healing and deserve to practice yoga in a way that soothes your heart and soul.

Xo Taryn

P.S. If you are passionate about yoga like I am, and looking to deepen your practice, expand your professional experience, and learn how to hold a trauma-informed class, I welcome you to join me for our next SHE RECOVERS Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training. It would be an honor to have you with us.

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Shelly Dimitrijevic

Shelly Dimitrijevic’s professional and philanthropic activities have always focused on improving the lives of others. She began her nursing career at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis and went on to become a LifeFlight nurse specializing in neonatal, pediatric, and cardiovascular intensive care.

Shelly has been involved with numerous charities focusing on children and education including the Charlee and the Chocolate Factory gala, The Venus Orbit, Design For A Cure, Jackson Memorial, and Impact Oasis. In 2010 she founded the Lotus program, a program that focused on educating parents on the nutritional needs of children and basic child development. Shelly also served on the Frost Science Museum gala committee for 7 years before Co-Chairing the event in 2015.

After a diagnosis of Celiac disease and subsequently receiving Certification as a Nutritional Consultant, Shelly recognized that topically applied products have an effect on her Celiac Disease and overall health. She turned her focus to developing skincare that was free of toxic and hormone-disrupting ingredients.

Since she lost her only sibling in 2012 Shelly has been determined to find a way to contribute to the recovery community in a way that can make a great impact and ensure that others have the resources necessary when they are struggling.

Shelly's substantial contributions to SHE RECOVERS of both time and resources have been instrumental and deeply appreciated.

Kirsten Newquist

As a result of being introduced to SHE RECOVERS through retreats and meet-ups, Kirsten will be starting her yoga teacher training in the fall. These retreats also led her to become more deeply involved with SHE RECOVERS in a volunteer capacity. Kirsten was instrumental in setting up some of the Foundation's grassroots groups and currently volunteers her time helping SHE RECOVERS Foundation to design and implement the Volunteer Chapter Network. Kirsten and her husband recently moved from Southern California to Roswell, Georgia to be closer to Kirsten's sister and two young nieces. When she isn't spending time being an aunt, you can find Kirsten hanging out with their rescue Labrador or exploring their new state.

Mary Beth O'Connor

Mary Beth is a founding member of SHE RECOVERS Support for Legal Professionals and is active at the local level with SHE RECOVERS in the Bay Area. Mary Beth has been living a sober life in recovery for over 26 years. She also has a history of trauma and abuse, from which she’s worked hard to recover as well. 6 years into her recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014 Mary Beth was appointed an Administrative Law Judge. She recently retired, so she could devote her time to completing her writing and being more active in the recovery community.

She regularly speaks on behalf of LifeRing and develops relationships with organizations supportive of the multiple pathways approach. In August 2020, Mary Beth had an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, I Beat Addiction without God, where she described building a personal recovery plan by combining ideas from LifeRing, Women for Sobriety, and Narcotics Anonymous. In November 2020 she had an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I was a federal judge, and I support Safehouse. Here’s why. She is currently working on a full-length memoir.

Taryn Strong

Taryn Strong is a founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as well as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, recovery coach, aromatherapist, and herbalist (and daughter to Mama Dawn). Taryn has developed a unique yoga retreat program and led over 40 yoga for recovery retreats since 2012. She is also the host of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast and most recently created and taught the inaugural trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher Training Program. Operating from a trauma-informed lens and a firm believer in anti-oppressive practices, Taryn brings an empathic and invitational approach to healing - empowering women to find and follow individualized pathways and patchworks of recovery.

Taryn's courageous vulnerability and passion for recovering out-loud has made her an influential voice in the global recovery movement - smashing the stigma often associated with substance use and mental health issues. Taryn creates and lives with her beloved and two dogs within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples (Saltspring Island).

Susan Carter

Susan is an architect of hope and healing with over 30 years of experience in providing executive-level leadership to heart-centered teams in the non-profit realm. Since joining SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as Executive Director in April 2020, Susan continues to weave her experience with her passion to help other women receive what she has been so graciously given – long-term recovery from substance use disorder, body image issues, codependency, perfectionism, and moral injury.

Susan’s work in the treatment industry quickly revealed how stigma kept women struggling with mental health issues and addiction from seeking help, and the lack of resources available to them once they did. Having served as a founding employee of Susan G. Komen for the Cure for 20 years, playing an integral role in creating the global grassroots movement that changed the way breast cancer is talked about and treated, she felt called to utilize that experience to do the same for women struggling with mental health and substance use disorders.

Celebrating more than 27 years of continuous sobriety, Susan is a Certified Peer Support Worker (CPSW) in the state of New Mexico to provide resources and peer support to those in or seeking recovery. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her fur family of four, Alex, Chaco, Bodhi, and Gracie.

Dawn Nickel

Dawn Nickel, Founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation, is a thought leader in the women's recovery sphere as well as an accomplished leader, dedicated researcher, and visionary in the recovery moment. She holds a Ph.D. in health care policy with extensive experience in researching and writing about women experiencing substance use disorders, mental health challenges, and intimate partner violence. Dawn started her own journey of recovery from a substance use disorder and domestic violence in 1987. She is also in recovery from anxiety, grief, trauma, overworking, and cancer. Dawn's tell-it-like-it-is wisdom has created a ripple effect where you will often hear her quotes "the shit you did is just the shit you did - it's not who you are" and "recovering from all the things" resonating throughout many recovery realms.

Currently working on her first book, Dawn is living proof that in a world where all women in or seeking recovery are celebrated, supported, and deemed essential to healthy communities - anything is possible. She is fondly referred to as Mama Dawn in the SHE RECOVERS Community and to her daughters Taryn and Ashley. Dawn lives, works, and plays with her beloved grandchildren on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen speaking peoples on Vancouver Island.

Trauma Informed Yoga with Taryn

The body has its own story to tell, and its own healing to experience.