Rising Strong Wellness LLC

09/13/2025

09/11/2025

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My third collection of poetry, Shapeshifter, is officially out in the world. See the link in my bio for ordering details.
L.E. Bowman | Author of Shapeshifter, What I Learned From the Trees, and The Evolution of a Girl.

09/10/2025

✨ Trauma-Informed Yoga: Healing Through Choice + Care
Trauma-informed yoga is an evidence-based healing practice and an empowering way to reconnect with the body. It centers safety, trust, choice, and control, honoring the lived experience of each student.

This practice supports survivors by:
🌿 Strengthening vagal tone
🌿 Expanding the window of tolerance
🌿 Building resilience + self-trust
🌿 Encouraging nervous system healing over time

At its core, this is about going slow, offering choice, and creating space where rest feels safe and bodies feel like home again.

Core foundations include:
💜 Empowerment-based language
💜 Supportive, present teaching
💜 Cultural awareness + accessibility
💜 Consent + physical/emotional safety
💜 Mindful approach to breathwork + triggers
💜 Self + community care for the teacher

When held with care, trauma-informed yoga can help folks feel grounded in their worth—and take powerful steps toward post-traumatic growth.

You are allowed to go slow.
You are allowed to rest.
You are allowed to heal.

This work can be done in my Sunday morning class or 1:1.

09/07/2025

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Healing isn’t linear—it’s a spiral. 🌀

It’s easy to think, “Why am I here again?” when an old wound resurfaces or a familiar challenge reappears.

But in reality, you’re not the same person you were before. You’ve returned to this moment with new tools, deeper wisdom, and greater resilience.

Each step forward, even when it feels like a step back, is part of the profound, non-linear journey of healing. 💛

09/05/2025

Gentle Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Sundays • 9:00–9:45 AM • Yogi Union Studio
Pay-What-You-Can

This class is designed specifically for those navigating the effects of trauma, stress, or overwhelm. You don’t need to have yoga experience—just a willingness to explore how movement, breath, and stillness can support your healing journey.

What makes this space different?
Choice + Consent: My language is invitational, not directive. You are always in charge of your body. I offer suggestions, not commands, and you decide what feels right for you.

Predictable Environment: I stay in one spot. The setup is always the same. This consistency supports your nervous system and builds trust and safety.
Time + Space: You’ll have plenty of time in each shape to simply be—to let sensations settle and move through your system at your pace.

Subtle, Somatic Work: Behind the scenes, I’m guiding a class rooted in somatic principles that support the vagus nerve and fascia. You don’t have to know how it works—just show up and let your body have the experience.
This class includes slow, gentle movement with lots of options. You’re welcome to participate as much or as little as feels right. It’s an opportunity to explore your body with curiosity, not judgment.

"Many participants shared the empowering realization that they have ownership and control over their bodies, as well as a greater ability to acknowledge, tolerate, and confront emotions that previously felt overwhelming—such as anger, shame, or vulnerability."
—West et al. (2016)
Research shows that yoga practices emphasizing interoceptive awareness (your sense of your internal body state), without external correction, can help trauma survivors reconnect with their bodies—by as much as 45% improvement in body awareness.
—Price & Hooven (2018)
This class is a pay-what-you-can offering and is open to anyone who feels called to attend.

09/05/2025

What's really that different about a class designed specifically for those surviving trauma and overwhelm?

You'll hear that my language is invitational vs directive. These leaves you in charge over your body. I am your guide towards curiosity.
You'll experience great consistency. I don't move around the room, I sit in the same spot every time and I keep everything the same for set up.
You'll have A LOT of time and space to really BE in your shape and to allow it to seep through your nervous system and physical body.

There is SO much happening behind the scenes and methods of these classes and I handle that. All you have to do is become available to show up and give your body the opportunity to experience.

Experience slow, gentle movement with opportunities for exploration and curiosity. You can choose your level of participation, with mindful pose options provided. The session includes somatic cues to support the mind-body connection, benefiting both fascia and the vagus nerve.

I offer gentle yoga for trauma every Sunday morning 9-945am at Yogi Union Studio.
This is pay what you can class for anyone who wants to come.

TCTSY works. Periodt.

Check out 20 years (!!) of original and adjunctive research on the TCTSY model of trauma sensitive yoga on our website:

traumasensitiveyoga.com/research

09/02/2025

NEW SEASON NEW MAGIC !

It is good for us to sync with the seasons. You'll find the same amazing offerings this season with a new-ish schedule.

How and went does your body want to move? Tell me in the comments! Are you a morning mover or evening? When does your natural energy flow?

You'll find me this season spreading the joy!
On Sunday's: Experience slow, gentle movement with opportunities for exploration and curiosity. You can choose your level of participation, with mindful pose options provided. The session includes somatic cues to support the mind-body connection, benefiting both fascia and the vagus nerve. This is a PAY WHAT YOU WANT CLASS! We want it available to our community!

On Thursday's: Come to slow burn at 730am. This one hour class that cultivates intentional movement, breath awareness, and a deep connection to the body.This style of yoga combines elements of traditional vinyasa with slower, less vigorous poses, allowing practitioners to fully explore each posture.

On Friday's: Shake it all loose with Energy Reset. During this lunch time 45 minute class you'll move intentionally through
15 minutes powerful movement inspired by dance
15 minutes grounding slow motion
15 minutes meditation/rest
Find BIG body choices to BIG beats!

Can't move with me? No worries... you'll enjoy SO SO many gifted teachers and offerings everyday of the week. Come be moved in community!

08/28/2025

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There are languages we never learned in school.⁠
The soft murmur of a tired body. The steady insistence of an aching heart. The roar of a system stretched too far.⁠
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Most of us were taught to ignore these voices. To keep pushing. To numb. To scroll. To silence. But your body has never stopped speaking, or whispering; it has only been waiting for you to listen.⁠
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Listening is repair. It is reclamation. It is remembering that your body has always been your first home.⁠
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Come closer to the sound of your own skin.

08/23/2025

On Sundays we gather making NO assumptions of what anyone is carrying in with them. Not attempting to change or fix anything, instead, to witness and hold as a community.

I’ll meet you at 930am .studio in anyway that you want to show up. This trauma informed gentle flow aims at creating space for you to be, for you to explore and for you to rest in the glimmers. It’s pay what you can, mats are available- it just asks you to arrive. Even just sitting and being is the work, breathing, practicing.

In case this applies to you today…
Conditions are ripe for compassion and wisdom while your body-mind-heart is wiling to be vulnerable and feel this.
if you look away, even a little bit, you are looking away from the full spectrum of what is occurring. Your capacity to feel is endless when you don’t add commentary or reject feeling confused, angry or deeply saddened.
Stay here. Stay here. Say nothing and feel. Feel. Cry. See. Hear. Listen. Let your body soften or let it be hardened, but don’t look away. Drop the idea that you have to draw any conclusions. There is room for shapeshifting.
Be genuine and quiet. Be quiet to hear what is just beneath fear and commentary about what this looks like. Please, take a seat alone in a quiet room.
No words. Empty the tongue of words. Free yourself from mental limitations. How? Let the thoughts show up, gather, linger, hide in the hidden corners of mind. Stay still. Be still to see how the feeling changes, amplifies with commentary. Perhaps it will reveal something new, fresh? No thought, idea, belief, ideology, opinion is truth. None of these are who you are. Drop that s**t and see who is here.

08/21/2025

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Diet culture is often talked about like it’s just about dieting or “watching what you eat.”
But it’s so much bigger—and more harmful—than that.

It’s a system rooted in white, Eurocentric beauty ideals that erases BIPOC, trans, fat, and disabled bodies, while deciding whose bodies are worthy of care, safety, and respect.

These aren’t just personal preferences; they’re standards built on histories of oppression.

Body liberation means making space for all bodies to exist without policing, shrinking, or erasing them. It’s about dismantling the systems that profit from our shame and expanding what’s possible for every single one of us.