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"Consent is where it\u2019s at\u2026 How do I offer that? How do I ask for it? How does it inform who I am to myself in the world?\u201d ~Colleen Millen

Our host Sarah Buino welcomes NARM Therapist and Accessible Yoga instructor Colleen Millen to dive into and discuss the theme of consent.\xa0

Colleen shares how her understanding of what consent means has deepened through her relationship with yoga and through her ongoing study of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM).\xa0

Colleen shares honestly that at first she was reticent to join the NARM training because of a traumatic experience that she had in a previous training community. She shares that she had been part of a yoga healing community where consent was not represented, and where \u201cthere were some cultic dynamics that created power differentials that were very, very difficult and abusive.\u201d She left that yoga community and continued to work as a therapist while she continued to heal from the experience of betrayal. After decades of dedicated yoga practice, she began asking herself \u201cDo I want to teach yoga at all?\u201d\xa0

Through this process of self-referencing and self-healing, she discovered the deeper aspects of yoga that continued to call to her, which led her toward trauma-informed yoga, and a new branch of yoga called Accessible Yoga. She describes that Accessible Yoga is specifically designed to place the student at the center of their own relationship with their practice.

About Colleen:\xa0

Colleen works with complex trauma and regulation at Discovery Counseling Center in Danville, CA, a community mental health center. Accessibility and consent are core values and interests of her work. Colleen is also an Accessible Yoga Ambassador and trauma-informed yoga teacher and trainer.

Contact Colleen:\xa0

Website: www.discoveryctr.net\xa0

Colleen\u2019s Accessible Yoga classes: https://www.tworiversyoga.com/

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