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Today we celebrate our 5 year anniversary! Thank you to our 100+ healing arts and health + wellness practitioners, located across the U.S. and Canada, for your commitment to serving the sexual assault survivor population with expertise, grace and compassion. Thank you to our supporters and donors who believe that the time to center and prioritize survivors' healing - healing of their bodies, minds and souls - is now. Thank you to friends and family who have offered emotional and energetic support to this massive undertaking to build a trusted network of sliding-scale, trauma-informed, holistic healing arts professionals - giving survivors tools and resources that will lead them towards their own innate resilience. Thank you to all the other anti-violence, trauma healing and social justice organizations, movements and mentors for teaching, collaborating and inspiring us to recognize the urgency and believe in the possibility of transforming our society. Thank you to our board members, advisory council and volunteers for their enthusiasm, creativity and faith in our capacity to create our own unique path within this movement, and for lovingly tending to our garden of ideas, dreams, projects and aspirations for where and how our mission and vision may organically grow. Thank you most of all to the survivors of sexual violence and trauma who remind us that healing is not only possible, but truly, healing is every person's birthright; survivors' whose struggles, vulnerability and strength both fuels and humbles us every single day. #thebreathenetwork #buildingresilience #embodiedhealing #holistichealing #trauma #traumainformed #traumaresilience #embodiedjustice #mindbodysoul #survivor #sexualassault #sexualabuse #sexualviolence #socialjustice #socialchange #transformingtrauma #survivorcentered #survivorlead #nonprofit #anniversary #buildingresilience #buildingcommunity #buildingamovement #justbreathe

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We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a grant to develop and run an online course for sexual trauma survivors on trauma-informed yoga and meditation practices for healing! The course, “Embodied Healing: Trauma-Informed Yoga and Meditation for Survivors” will run for 6 weeks beginning this November. It will include a combination of education on the impacts of sexual abuse and trauma on the brain, nervous system, body and mind, and also, an in-depth look at how yoga and meditation practices can support an integrated and sustainable approach to healing. We will also offer trauma-informed meditation and yoga practices in 3 different lengths to support survivors in developing a home practice. As a scaffold to the online course, we will have weekly readings to supplement the week's core content, a weekly live call where we will review and discuss the previous week’s readings and course material, and an moderated online discussion forum for participants. Please stay tuned for more details about our teaching team and registration coming in early September! You can also email me at: [email protected] to sign up to be notified as soon as registration and course details go live! #survivor #sexualabuse #sexualtrauma #survivorcentered #survivorlead #holistichealing #nonlinearhealing #mindbodysoul #buildingresilience #traumainformedcare #traumainformedyoga #traumainformedmeditation #selfcare #communitycare #healingisapractice #onesizedoesnotfitall #nonprofit photo: @mollyboha

Sweet home Chicago! We are excited to spend more time building our TBN community in this amazing city, and the place where the vision for our work was born. Stay tuned for details about our Saturday, February 25th fundraising party, and our 6-hour, multi-disciplinary, trauma-informed care training at @yogaview on Saturday, May 13th, 2017. | photo: @mollyboha #traumainformed #sexualassault #recovery #resilience #holistichealing #embodiedhealing #embodiedjustice #traumatraining #traumainformedcare #survivor #survivorcentered #mindbodysoul #nonprofit #chicagohealing (at Chicago, Illinois)

Today we celebrate our 4 year anniversary! Thank you to our 100+ healing arts and health + wellness practitioners for your commitment to serving the sexual assault survivor population with expertise, grace and compassion. Thank you to our supporters and donors who believe that the time to center healing - body, mind and soul - is now. Thank you to friends and family who have offered emotional and energetic support to this massive undertaking to build a network of sliding-scale, trauma-informed, holistic healing arts professionals across the U.S., Canada and beyond giving survivors tools and resources that will lead them towards their own innate resilience. Thank you to all the other anti-violence, trauma healing and social justice organizations and movements for teaching, collaborating and inspiring us to believe in the possibility for transforming our society. Thank you to our board and volunteers for their enthusiasm, creativity and faith in our capacity to create our own path and for lovingly tending to our garden of ideas, dreams, projects and aspirations for where and how our mission and vision may organically want to grow. Thank you most of all to the survivors of sexual violence and trauma who remind us that healing is not only possible but every person's birthright, and whose struggles, vulnerability and strength fuels and humbles us every single day. #thebreathenetwork #buildingresilience #embodiedhealing #holistichealing #traumainformed #traumaresilience #embodiedjustice #mindbodysoul #survivor #sexualassault #sexualabuse #sexualviolence #transformingtrauma #survivorcentered #nonprofit #breathe #justbreathe

"For those who have attended to their healing prior to pregnancy, they have a sense of familiarity with the disorienting and unpredictable terrain that pregnancy and birth exist within. Survivors who have braved the tremendous epic storm of life taking a dramatic, unexpected turn, and their whole being and world being deeply and forever altered by it, and embarked on the personal journey of healing and restoring themselves, can relate to the unfolding journey of the deeper aspects of pregnancy and birth. While the circumstances between pregnancy and healing from sexual violence are drastically different, the inner experiences of navigating deep bodily and psychic information have curious parallels. For some survivors, the chance of a new life, now so tangible in her body, is like throwing fuel on the fire of healing that she has already tended to and cultivated. This new journey is not without tears, fears, grief, and doubt, of course, as no transformational journey can possibly be. But these courageous survivors who have made significant progress on their healing path, have a sense of trust in this landscape of not knowing, in their body and mind’s capacity to find the way, and even in pregnancy they continue to grow and meet what life is asking of them." -Ellen Boeder On this 11th day of #30daysofholistichealing, we are featuring birth doulas and midwives as a component of supporting survivors along the nonlinear journey of healing. In this blog interview with TBN member, Ellen Boeder, we explored the unique strengths that a survivor brings to the process of pregnancy, birth and parenting and how to offer support for the possibility of being triggered by the process and also, the experience becoming another integral part of the survivors' post traumatic repair. Link in profile. #saam2016 #birth #pregancy #parenting #survivor #survivorcentered #doula #midwife #embodiedhealing #holistichealing #traumainformed #transformingtrauma #mindbodysoul #nonlinearhealing

"I feel very strongly that our body speaks to us and after the experience of a traumatic incident, we don’t always want to verbally repeat and explain everything we have experienced in great detail. In order to feel the power we have within ourselves, I think it’s key to have an experience of that feeling within us that so we can begin to internalize and feel more in control once again. When we’ve been traumatized, it may feel safer to disassociate from our bodies and I think craniosacral therapy and yoga can impact us on a deep cellular level and connect us back to our own sense of power that may feel lost." -Manisha Tare Have you received craniosacral therapy? For #day9 of #30daysofholistichealing we are featuring this gentle and powerful healing modality that can serve people at a variety of levels - physically, mentally, energetically or spiritually. TBN member, Manisha Tare is and occupational therapist who offers CST and teaches yoga to support her clients in restoring themselves after a variety of traumatic experiences, including sexual assault. Learn more about this deep approach to healing, and Manisha's practice in D.C. by visiting her practitioner page on our website. #saam2016 #sexualassault #survivor #survivorcentered #holistichealing #embodiedhealing #embodiedjustice #occupationaltherapy #healingisapractice #traumainformed #slidingscale #traumaresilience #transformingtrauma #mindbodysoul

"I have worked for social change for over 15 years prior to finding my passion as an herbalist. Because of this, my approach as an herbalist is as an activist. I work to know and to hold myself accountable for my intersections of privilege with the places that I have been violated or marginalized. I believe the economic impacts of trauma in a person’s life can be devastating and that is further compounded for someone who has less access to care, resources and support due to racism, ableism, heterosexism, misogyny, forced assimilation into neurotypicality, transphobia, homelessness, etc. As an ally I work to identify ways in which my services can resist, rather than uphold, these dominant cultural narratives." -Kirsten Hale We are thrilled to welcome Community Herbalist, Kirsten Hale to The Breathe Network! With an upcoming move, she will be joining our growing collective of practitioners in Portland, OR. Learn more about Kirsten's practice by visiting our website, and checking out our Browse Providers page. #herbalism #communityherbalist #plantmedicine #traumainformed #slidingscale #survivorcentered #holistichealing #portlandhealers #portlandhealingarts #transformingtrauma #sexualassault #survivor #mindbodyspirit #nonprofit