Join us on January 21 with instructor Christine Badalamenti Smith, from OGGI BE Yoga Therapy and Rewilding yourself by engaging in yoga therapy, an ancient practice intended to help people access their minds and emotions by moving and exploring awareness in the body. Improve your connection to your body and align your layers of being to work with loss, grief, and hope at the pace of you.
The 2-hour workshop will begin with introductions and a brief education of the yoga therapy process and practices. Then, there will be 45 minutes - 1 hour of a therapeutic embodied experience to provide skills, frameworks, and behavior that will support the grief, loss, and hope journey. Participants will get some time to journal and process their experiences internally. The workshop will close with a circle and integration.
Be seen, validated, and supported by a community of people with shared lived experiences. Explore this work in a way that is uniquely yours and take home new ways of being that make taking that next step or next breath a little easier.
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(this workshop is free and intended for those grieving pregnancy and infant loss or infertility)
Instructor
Christine Badalamenti Smith is a yoga therapist, rewilding guide, environmental advocate, and writer. Christine’s mission is to help people feel at home, alive, and powerful in their bodies and outdoors. She; 's observed that people who feel whole, safe, and empowered are more careful stewards of their lives and the natural world. Christine founded OGGI BE to offer services and resources and convene a collective of people who want to be present, authentic, and intentional in their lives. Clients come to her for healing, change, alignment, and deep connection to self and purpose.
Christine is certified in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy which utilizes the teachings, research, and practice of yoga, Ayurveda, Buddhism, neuroscience, and psychology to offer a therapeutic experience addressing mental and emotional health and wellbeing. She sees individual clients, couples, and groups at her office in Vermont and online, and provides workshops, learning opportunities, and private and corporate retreats at locations around the state. Christine is a rewilding guide certified through Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership. She curates powerful and intimate experiences in nature that connect participants to their inner wild essence and vital relationship with Earth. Christine has over 2000 hours of specialized training in diverse yoga modalities and is registered as an RYT 500 teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Christine reached out to Empty Arms Vermont after she experienced a loss in January 2022. The experience revealed a whole new world of grief, isolation, and longing that she had never seen before. Most people she encountered who had not shared a similar experience could not grasp, express, or articulate her experience in a way that made her feel seen and understood. She relied heavily on her own skills as a yoga therapist to maneuver through her pain and guilt and make her way back to herself and hope. It was a solitary journey but Christine is so grateful for her training as she was uniquely supported and did not alone in her work. She is still on her fertility journey.
