Specialisms
Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Stress. Populations impacted by war, violence and displacement, including service providers working in these communities
Qualifications
- Becoming Trauma-Sensitive: Making Mindfulness and Meditation Safe for Trauma, with David Treleaven – Oxford Mindfulness Centre
- Healing yoga for refugees, asylum-seekers and displaced people – Our Mala
- Trauma Informed Facilitation Training – The Yoga Mandala Project
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Facilitator – Bangor University. Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice
- Yoga Therapy for Mental Health -The Minded Institute
- The British Wheel of Yoga Diploma
About
Elizabeth has been teaching yoga since 2009. Trained with The British Wheel of Yoga, she continued her studies with The Minded Institute in London, becoming a yoga therapist specialised in mental health. Elizabeth is also a mindfulness facilitator, having trained with Bangor University, Centre for Mindfulness Research & Practise. She teaches the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course, as well as other mindfulness-based interventions.
Working with a trauma-informed lens, she has a special interest in making yoga therapy and mindfulness-based practices available to refugee populations and is one of the teacher trainers with The Yoga Mandala Project, an international grassroots project providing psycho-social support and trauma-informed yoga to those displaced by war and conflict, and those who serve them.
Elizabeth has taught in a variety of settings from studios to schools, and has volunteered with Mind, ReThink and the NHS.