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.

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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.