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pure joy ...


Is what we aim to inspire. Life can be hard, choices difficult, situations can feel impossibly overwhelming. The Indigenous Yoga Program is designed to be a space filled with tools to support change and help to explore our potential.

Denise Davis-Gains designed this program to serve the needs of indigenous youth but anyone and every one are welcome can use this program to support the journey to feeling inspired and joyful. To manage the feelings of overwhelm, loneliness, addiction and fear we need resources to build resilence. It takes brave souls to meet life head on and wake up each day open to finding our purpose and living our dream of a happy, healthy, spirit led life.

This program is born from experience with yoga, Indigenous ways of knowing and being and it is informed by contemporary somatic trauma based methodology that will help us to be a co-creator in our life path.



The Medicine Wheel


Using the four domain model of wellness our approach is simplistic. It can even feel too simplistic. When we are experiencing trauma, in the past, or on an ongoing basis, simple tools can feel trivial and irrelevant. It is our belief that this program exists to support you in re-orientating to the tools that work to help us to remember how to self-regulate, to reach out for help and to know the difference between the situations that we can manage and those that require the support of the allies that we have.


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Physical Health


All of the domains of health are interconnected. We start with the physical layer of our beingness as all other layers depend on this element. This part of our human beingness relates to earth element and is often represented by the colour yellow. In many creation stories there is yellow, brown, white and red earth. We will explore how the colours, the elements and the regular movement of the body can helps us to begin to feel a sense of groundedness and control in our lives.

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