Home ›

My Work

in

Here is a glimpse of some of my recent work.
(Click on one of the links right below "All..." to filter the list a bit.)

  • Street Yoga

    Street Yoga is a Portland-based non-profit that teaches yoga and mindfulness to at-risk youth and families.

    Street Yoga was recently featured on NPR in a story produced by Neda Ulaby.

    My Role: I founded Street Yoga in 2002, and currently serve as Board President and Lead Trainer.

  • Insight Communication

    Insight serves health care and EMS personnel with mindful communication for high-intensity situations.

    My Role: I founded Insight Communication in 2007, and serve as Principal Consultant.

  • Yoga Service Council

    The YSC provides best practices and research expertise in the field of yoga service throughout North America.

    My Role: Principal co-founder of the YSC, steering committee member and current co-chair of the Executive Sub-Committee

  • Body-Mind Rehab Therapy

    This project brings yoga therapy to patients recovering from diverse injuries and illnesses in the pediatric inpatient setting.

    A training for this practice is in development.

    My Role: Co-Creator, Lead Therapist

  • Healing Childhood Abuse with Yoga

    This program combines yoga with mental health therapies to help young people recover from childhood sexual abuse.

    Classes will begin in fall, 2009 for this program.

    My Role: Co-Creator

  • Mindful Parents & Caregivers

    This innovative training brings key mindfulness skills to parents, caregivers and social workers in high-intensity, at-risk environments.

    Classes will start at three sites in the fall of 2009.

    My Role: Creator, Co-Developer, Co-Trainer

  • Felix Maus

    This book tells the story of my journey through the truama of my son's near-death fall from a tree, and long, painful recovery.

    The book is scheduled for release in the first half of 2010.

    My Role: Author

  • ICU Survival Guide

    This Family Survival Guide to the ICU is written from direct experience, to serve families who have a loved one in Intensive Care

    My Role: Author

  • Yoga Activist

    A Washington DC based non-profit, Yoga Activist partners qualified yoga teachers with social service and community organizations.

    Street Yoga just offered a training there, and has begun working with Yoga Activist as an affiliate of Street Yoga.

    My Role: Advisor

  • Omega Institute

    Founded in 1977, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is the nation's most trusted source for wellness and personal growth.

    My Role: Faculty

View DIV with id="mydiv" on the page

Projects

Project Description My Work
Street Yoga Core Training This weekend training covers a wide range of topics, from guided introspection to boundaries to needs analysis, to help prepare people to serve at-risk populations with yoga. These trainings are held regularly across North America. Creator, co-developer along with Katie Arrants, primary trainer and lead developer.
Street Yoga Advanced Training This weekend training deepens the SY Core Training by examining Mindfulness & Trauma, Mindful Communication, and yoga teaching specifics for diverse at-risk populations, including break-out sessions covering (Healing Childhood Abuse with Yoga, Yoga for Homeless Youth, Yoga for Youth in Foster Care, Yoga in Detention, Spa Days and Self-Care, Yoga for Social Service staff and more. The first SY Advanced Training will be held in December, 2009. Creator, lead developer and lead trainer.
Felix Maus The need is to tell this story, this crazy story of what happened to us one summer, the story of when my only son, my first born child came within a whisker of dying, both in body and in mind. He fell 30 some-odd feet from a tree and cracked his skull, shattered his thigh, crushed his wrist and slipped into a coma from which he almost didn't wake up.
It was the brain injury that freaked us out, after the nearness of death, of course. The crooked road of life plunged us into a chasm so deep we didn't know if we'd ever get out alive.
This is that story. It started one Saturday in June high up in a red cedar tree. Or, it started ten years before when a ten pound boy named Felix came into our lives forever.		 Author
Mindful Communication for Healthcare Providers This training supports the following value proposition through a focused practice which blends core mindfulness tenets with Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication: "Mindful Communication will allow you to contain and defuse conflict, and better advocate for your own needs, and the needs of your colleagues and patients." Creator, lead developer and lead trainer.
Moving Through Trauma This training serves those who have personally experienced primary or significant secondary trauma with yoga, meditation and healing mindfulness practices. Creator, lead developer and lead trainer.
Yoga Way to Birth The Yoga Way to Birth helps couples prepare for birth by connecting the ancient healing practices of yoga with the powerful experience of birth Consultant, adviser.
Packing Your Parachute with Love This powerful workshop brings people to a strong present tense awareness, and helps people prepare for any eventuality by committing themselves to living completely in this and every moment. Creator, lead facilitator
     
adf