Like church, for your body.
Sacred Body is a monthly space curated to facilitate soulful ways of being and healing.
This workshop will feature yoga and movement teaching by Jenny Wade, LMHC, intuitive touch and physical assists from Karen Cirulli, LMP, and soulful rituals led by Heather Stringer, LMHC. All three have extensive training in trauma informed care, and are dedicated to creating a safe space for your body. Join these three for a powerful evening of movement, blessing of body, and touch.
This is an all levels yoga class and all bodies are welcomed.
Date: May 17th, 2019.
Time: 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Location: Soma Yoga
Cost: $60
About the instructors: Jenny Wade, Karen Cirulli and Heather Stringer
Jenny’s passion is to help people reclaim the bodies that are clouded by shame and disgust. As a yoga teacher and licensed psychotherapist, she teaches the individuals she works with to develop a deep trust in their body and inner voice in order to help them be more engaged and connected to their lives.
The yoga classes she created at Haven are meant to help people not only release physical constriction in the body caused by stress, but to also release deeply held negative thoughts and emotions. Yoga is an opportunity to have a different experience of your body. Not as an object to critique, but as a part of ourselves to accept and connect to deeply.
Karen has lived in the Seattle neighborhood of Greenwood for over ten years. Karen earned her B.A in 2007 and in 2013 completed the Lay Leader Counseling Certificate from the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Karen has been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 2005 and specializes in work specific to women who have experience trauma and/or abuse.
As well as starting two successful small businesses, Karen served as an Americorps volunteer along Aurora Avenue in in North Seattle for two years where she received training in Asset Based Community Development.
Heather Stringer is a therapist, artist, and ritual maker. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Seattle, WA. She completed her M.A. in Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and the Externship Program at The Allender Center. She received a BFA in painting from Columbia College.
She believes that when we are intentional about engaging our bodies, memories, and communities (both spiritual and earthly), a softening and opening for healing and change are possible. We are meant to be witnessed, both in our memories and our bodies in order to reshape how we love ourselves and those around us. Heather’s work in any arena — art, therapy, or ritual making — involves intuitive listening, prayer, and curating mutual creativity.
She is married to Jay Stringer, a fellow therapist and writer, and they have two wonderful babes, Amos Muir and Iona Kennedy. You can find her professional work at We Are Temples.