Bad Hair Day on Planet Earth: 20-hour Training for Mental Health + Health Care Professionals
Schedule
Fri May 03 2024 at 04:15 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
West Hartford Yoga | Hartford, CT
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Barbara Ruzansky… E-RYT 500, Owner/Director of West Hartford Yoga (WHY)Jen Leavitt… MSW/JD, RYT 200
Friday, May 3, 2024: 5:15 - 9:00 pm (break included)
Saturday, May 4, 2024: 1:00 - 9:00 pm (break included)
Sunday, May 5, 2024: 12:30 - 5:30 pm (break included)
Join Barbara Ruzansky, author and owner of West Hartford Yoga (WHY) and Jen Leavitt, MSW, JD and trauma informed yoga teacher, for this weekend workshop designed specifically for mental health clinicians seeking to incorporate holistic and somatic practices into their work with clients.
The workshop is inspired by Barbara’s decades long struggle with mental health, addiction, and eating disorders, as chronicled in her book Bad Hair Day on Planet Earth and her recovery through holistic health practices.
Learn how yoga, meditation, nutrition, and community building can provide a complementary approach to mental health treatment.
The weekend will include experiential exercises and psychoeducation. You can expect the following:
• Yoga postures and flows that promote healing through somatic connection
• Loving kindness meditations designed to expand capacity for self-reflection and self-compassion
• The impact of nutrition on brain health and how specific foods impact mood
• The latest research on the benefits of incorporating whole-body practices into traditional therapy
• An experiential journey into the healing power of community
This training will provide powerful tools to support your clients’ healing along with a renewed sense of hope, possibility, and engagement in your work as a clinician.
$375, registration required
This program has been approved for ten (10) Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal.
Approval also meets the continuing education criteria for CT LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, and licensed psychologists.
Program is designed for mental health clinicians and health care workers.
Interested students welcome with prior permission of the instructor. Please contact [email protected]
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About the Instructors
Barbara Ruzansky, E-RYT 500, founder and director of West Hartford Yoga (WHY), is widely known throughout Connecticut for her challenging yoga classes as well her compassion, support, and humor. As a teacher and community leader, Barbara encourages self-acceptance while helping her students strive to reach their personal best. Her conviction that yoga can spark health and fulfillment is at the heart of her teaching.
Barbara is author of the recently-released memoir, Bad Hair Day On Planet Earth, a story spanning three decades living with serious mental health issues, including depression, addiction, and eating disorders. After years of therapy, she began a companion journey into the world of yoga, whole foods eating, and holistic living, through which she eventually found healing. This book — told entirely through a compilation of “found objects,” such as journals, letters, artwork, and audio tapes — chronicles her struggles and her messy, nonlinear journey through recovery.
Additionally, Bad Hair Day On Planet Earth lays down the roots of Barbara’s holistic practices, from the moment she began to practice yoga through her integration into the macrobiotic cooking community to the opening of WHY, a culmination of her lifelong dream to help people, break the stigma surrounding mental illness, and hopefully forge a new path of awareness, understanding, and compassion.
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Jen Leavitt, MSW/JD, RYT 200, is WHY’s former studio manager and she also teaches WHY Power classes at the studio. A 2011 graduate of the WHY Teacher Training program, she is a certified Therapeutic Yoga Instructor and Yin Yoga Teacher.
Jen creates an energetic, vigorous, sweaty practice for those looking to move and breathe. She has explored many different paths along the yoga road, including Bikram, Ashtanga and Kripalu. Her classes combine many of these traditions with the challenging WHY Power flow, encouraging students to move safely beyond their edge.
Her personal practice has served as an anchor through various life experiences, including divorce, recovery, and spiritual growth. Trained as both a social worker and a lawyer, Jen has worked for many years in the juvenile court system. Jen also offers training in trauma-informed yoga for yoga teachers and mental health practitioners.
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Where is it happening?
West Hartford Yoga, West Hartford Yoga, 32 Jansen Ct, West Hartford, CT 06110, United States,West Hartford, Connecticut, HartfordEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
