Ruth Day
Group & Private Yoga Instructor
Trauma Release Facilitator
Services
I offer a variety of classes, training, and workshops - public, small group, and private. Everything is personalized depending on your needs, abilities, and goals. My passion is in releasing trauma and making yoga accessible to everyone.
Below are a few services I offer. Feel free to contact me if you are looking for something you don't see, and check out my About section for more on my experience and qualifications.
In Person Trauma Releasing Workshops
Whether recent or ancestral, aware or unaware of we’ve all experienced trauma, and we all store some (or a lot) of it in our bodies.
Stored trauma leads to physical and mental issues that negatively affect our lives.
In these workshops, you will learn the basics of how your body stores this trauma, and more importantly, how to start releasing it. There will be a physical practice that will be adaptable to all levels, sound healing to address specific areas and overall wellness, and information you can take home to continue releasing stored trauma.
Private Session
Looking to begin, fine-tune or deepen your practice, or decide if there is a type of yoga for you?
Private sessions allow you to set specific personal goals while working more in-depth with me. Each session is tailored to your specific needs and goals.
Examples: Injury rehab, Trauma Release, Restorative & Yin Yoga, Meditation, Sound Healing, Cross-training for sports.
Trauma Release Membership Group
Six Month Private Small Group with twice monthly sessions that will build of previous work, zoom meetings, support and private supportive group chat. Enrollment limited to 4 clients.
Small Group Trauma Release Workshop
Small group workshops can address specific needs and will be catered to the concerns of the group - some examples, are grief processing, PTSD, and sexual trauma survivors.
The group can be all women, men, or any other gender identification, it can be families, professionals (ie first responders, teachers), or a group of friends with a common experience or goal.
In these workshops, you will learn the basics of how your body stores this trauma, and more importantly, how to start releasing it. There will be a physical practice that will be adaptable to all levels, sound healing to address specific areas and overall wellness, and information you can take home to continue releasing stored trauma.
Click the contact button below to set up a private workshop for 4-8 people.
About
Ruth is a Canadian transplanted to the Chicago suburbs. She has three, now grown and fairly sassy children and one loud parrot named Picasso. An (in)famous dabbler she has tried everything from meditation to martial arts, warrior dashes to green stick kayaking, improv comedy to story slams, and of course, belly dancing to surfing.
Ruth has experimented with various types of yoga on and off for years and used it as part of her recovery after a major car accident, from six major orthopedic surgeries and cancer. She has completed multiple 200HR trainings and a 500HR training with focuses on Vinyasa, Power, Restorative, Yin, Hot Fusion, Trauma Informed Yoga (Y12SR), Sound healing, Yoga as Medicine, Meditation, Private Yoga Coaching, and Life Coaching. She has co-led both 200HR and 500HR Yoga Teacher Trainings and mentors Yoga Teachers in between trainings.
She has taught in Cook County Jail, in Recovery Groups, for Corporations, in schools (elementary to university and home-schooled children), at Private Pilot conventions (yoga in a cockpit, it's a thing), and for the Prison Yoga Project. She has survived significant trauma and does individual coaching in this area. She has been sober for 16 years and counting. In Canada, she was an Acute Care Pediatric Nurse and has a second degree in Biology.
Yoga is her physical, emotional, and spiritual refuge, and continues to be her daily grounding and source of growth both on and off her mat. It is also the thing that has made her a happier, saner, and generally better person to hang with. Ruth is honoured to expand and share her yogic experience by teaching yoga classes in studios, nature, offices, restaurants, school, private homes, pubs, and even the odd flash mob.
Ruth is also a professional artist (Art website HERE) and published poet. She finds new and novel creative expressions through photography, writing, and art. She also reads Tarot Cards and Human Design Charts, you know, on the side, in her spare time.
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