Terra Firma

Terra Firma Solid ground for healing. Terra Firma Wellness, LLC provides trauma-informed, integrative, mind-body

Terra Firma offers individual and group Trauma Informed Yoga, Mindfulness and Movement services, as well as professional trainings, for public and clinical settings. Our evidence-based approach to yoga and mindfulness is designed as adjunctive mental health treatment that is inclusive, accessible, and participant led. Our mission is to promote individual and collective resilience by including the body in treatment, honoring the Indigenous heritage of Yoga and incorporating empirical research.

Thanks so much, for inviting Sandra to provide this training! You’ll be able to view the recorded version on the websit...
25/08/2022

Thanks so much, for inviting Sandra to provide this training! You’ll be able to view the recorded version on the website soon.

If you're a mental health provider that works in perinatal mental health, or a birth worker in the community, join Sandr...
16/06/2022

If you're a mental health provider that works in perinatal mental health, or a birth worker in the community, join Sandra for this training in August!

This training includes a brief overview polyvagal theory and the nervous system, trauma informed/trauma sensitive yoga, research findings on yoga and perinatal mental health, and practical applications for therapists, yoga teachers, birth workers and other mental health providers.

LAST DAY to register for training!!! Link in bio.
28/02/2022

LAST DAY to register for training!!! Link in bio.

Starts Tuesday at 12pm CST! (Via zoom). This 6 week series is designed to provide education, guidance and support for in...
20/02/2022

Starts Tuesday at 12pm CST! (Via zoom).

This 6 week series is designed to provide education, guidance and support for individuals experiencing anxiety, traumatic stress responses, depression or other challenges with feeling connected and regulated.

Everyone is welcome, no experience or special clothing/equipment necessary!

If you have questions about anything please DM or email us!

$225 for the 6 weeks. $50 deposits required. The rest due by the last session.

20/02/2022

Research tells us that a trauma informed yoga practice is beneficial for birthing folks and babies in a number of ways including lower stress hormones, decreased depression symptoms and improved bonding with baby.

But we wanted to hear from our clients themselves. This is what our small survey revealed.

Join our next public group! Link in bio.

If traumatic stress causes disconnection, healing is about rebuilding that connection.
23/01/2022

If traumatic stress causes disconnection, healing is about rebuilding that connection.

Traumatic stress responses cause a feeling of helplessness and sometimes hopelessness. A trauma-informed yoga/mindfulne...
21/01/2022

Traumatic stress responses cause a feeling of helplessness and sometimes hopelessness. A trauma-informed yoga/mindfulness practice helps to regain a sense of agency within our own bodies.

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We are holistic beings. Our emotions and the ways in which we experience the world take root in our flesh and bones. Our bodies experience and express our joy, pain, anxiety, peace, and fear on a level far deeper and richer than our conscious minds can fully know. Through classes and services offered by Terra Firma, we help women cultivate resilience by tapping into the wisdom of their own bodies. We offer movement classes, gentle and restorative yoga class series, and women's health & meditation workshops designed with authentic self-care in mind. We (Angela and Sandra) met teaching yoga in St. Paul and connected over a desire to meet the needs of students that were suffering from trauma responses during and around yoga classes. We were finding that students were coming into the room with grief, loss, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and trauma and that their needs required some special attention. We could relate! We desired a place to experience a healing yoga practice that would be safe emotionally as well. So Terra Firma was born.

Angela is a certified facilitator of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga , also known as TCTSY. TCTSY is an adjunctive clinical treatment for Complex Trauma & PTSD that was developed through the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, MA by Bessel van der Kolk, David Emerson & Jennifer Turner. Angela is a Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance and has completed an additional certification in Restorative Yoga. She enjoys teaching gentle, flowing sequences, providing accessible meditation lessons and often utilizes guided relaxation & imagery in her non-clinical offerings. Additionally, Angela is a Level II Reiki Practitioner through Devanadi School of Yoga & Wellness, and has completed an Herbalist Apprenticeship with Jessica Belden, Herbalist and owner of The Medicine Tree in Minneapolis.

Sandra is a Registered, Experienced Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (E-RYT) through the Yoga Life Institute in Pennsylvania, Certified Birth Doula (Birth Arts International), BA in Art Therapy (Arcadia University), Trauma-Informed Yoga Trained through Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery and Firefly Yoga International. She has over 10 years teaching experience as a yoga instructor, and has worked for many years in mental health as a social worker and yoga teacher for the Emily Program. She has additional training in Yoga for Anxiety & Depression (Yoga Center of Minneapolis) and Prenatal Yoga (Dhyana Yoga).

Her focus as a Trauma Support Specialist is on helping women feel empowered in their relationships with their bodies and honoring the connection between our mental and physiological health.