Trauma-Informed Yoga for Foster & Kinship Moms

Who This Is For

This Isn't About Becoming a Better Parent

It's about building a regulated nervous system — because connection, resilience, and confident parenting grow out of that, not the other way around.

This series was designed specifically for mothers in the foster care system: foster, adoptive, kinship, and reunifying moms. If you've noticed that parenting through trauma has changed something in your own body — the tension you carry, how fast you go from calm to overwhelmed, how rarely you notice your own hunger or exhaustion — you're exactly who this is for.

There is no fixing here, and no performing. You will not be asked to share more than you want to, hold a pose you don't want to hold, or be touched. The emphasis is on noticing, not changing.

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What It's Built On

Four Foundations

This is not a drop-in yoga class. Every session is designed by an occupational therapist and certified yoga teacher, and grounded in the same science we use with the children in our clinic.

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Occupational Therapy

Every practice connects back to real caregiving occupations — morning routines, meal prep, school transitions, visits, bedtime — not just to the mat.

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Interoception

The sense that tells you what's happening inside your own body. Most caregivers have learned to override it. We rebuild it, slowly.

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Polyvagal Theory

A plain-language understanding of survival states, the window of tolerance, and why your body reacts before your mind has a chance to explain.

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The ARC Framework

Attachment, Regulation, and Competency — the trauma framework that shapes each week's theme and gives the six weeks their arc.

The Series

Six Weeks, One Arc

Each week has a theme, a piece of education, a yoga practice, a guided interoception exercise, and space to write. Come to all six if you can — they build.

1

Creating Safety Within Attachment

“My body can become a safe place to come home to.” What trauma does to a caregiver's nervous system, survival states, and why your own regulation deserves support first.

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Listening to My Body Regulation

“My body whispers before it shouts.” Hunger, fatigue, anxiety, stress signals — and the honest truth that most caregivers notice everyone else's needs before their own.

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Regulating Without Judgment Regulation

“I can notice without needing to change.” The window of tolerance, the early cues of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and what helps you move back toward balance.

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Connection Begins with Me Attachment

“Connection grows from regulated presence.” Co-regulation, mirror neurons, and why children borrow our nervous systems before they can build their own.

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Trusting Myself Competency

“My body holds wisdom.” Self-efficacy, occupational balance, resilience — and learning the difference between strength and tension, effort and overwhelm.

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Carrying This Practice Forward All Three

“What do I want to remember?” Building your own regulation toolbox, realistic routines, planning for setbacks, and a long restorative practice to close the series.

Every Class

The Same Shape, Every Week

Predictability is not a scheduling convenience — it's what makes a nervous system feel safe enough to soften. Every one of the six sessions runs 75 minutes and follows the same five parts, in the same order.

Arrival & grounding — 10 minutes to land
Psychoeducation — 10 minutes on the week's topic
Gentle yoga practice — 35 minutes, everything optional
Guided interoception — 10 minutes of listening inward
Journaling & reflection — 10 minutes to close

What to Bring

Come As You Are

No yoga experience is needed, and no particular kind of body is expected. Bring what you have — we can help with the rest.

A yoga mat and a blanket
Two blocks and a bolster or pillow
A journal and colored pencils or pens
Water
A weighted blanket, if you like one

What You Leave With

More Than Six Classes

Every participant receives a full set of take-home materials, plus a practice that keeps working after the series ends.

Interoception worksheet and body sensation wheel
Nervous system tracker and daily regulation log
A 10–15 minute home yoga sequence
Weekly reflection pages

A co-regulation strategy card
Language for recognizing dysregulation early
A wider window of tolerance
Grounding strategies you can use mid-meltdown, in real life

Closing Ritual

How Every Class Ends

One hand on the heart, one on the belly. The same words, every week, until they start to feel true.

Today I practiced listening instead of judging.
My body is worthy of kindness.
Regulation is a practice, not perfection.
Connection begins with me.
I have everything I need to take the next small step.