Gentle Hatha with Mindfulness with Heather Ding

This class offers a safe and supportive space for individuals healing from trauma to explore the benefits of yoga.
About this Event

Coming Home Embodiment Work is a guided journey inward—a space to reconnect with your body through self-exploration, playfulness, and mindful awareness. In this class, Heather offers a compassionate, non-judgmental environment where you’re invited to move freely and authentically, accessing parts of yourself that may have been long forgotten or never explored.

This experience blends a variety of healing modalities to support your mental health, personal growth, and inner healing, including

• Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
• Somatic Movement
• Dance and Freeform Expression
• Energy Work
• Guided Meditations
• QiGong
• Breathwork
• Mantras
• Journaling
• Mudras
• Chakra Meditations …and more.

Whether you are just beginning your journey or looking to deepen your connection with your inner self, this class invites you to return home—to your body, your breath, and your truth.

Benefits of Coming Home Embodiment Work

• Stress reduction and nervous system regulation
• A deeper connection to your Self
• Improved adaptability during life transitions
• Tools for mindfulness and emotional resilience
• Enhanced creativity and expression
• Restorative sleep and relaxation
• Greater self-compassion and self-care awareness
• Support for healing from within

About Heather

Certified Yoga Instructor | Trauma-Informed Specialist | Embodiment Facilitator

Heather Ding is a certified yoga teacher with over six years of teaching experience and a lifelong dedication to the practice. She holds a 200-hour certification from Almaden Yoga (2019) and is completing her 300-hour training in 2025. Heather specializes in trauma-informed yoga, completing advanced training through Collective Resilience Yoga (2021) and Porchlight Wellness, focusing on support for survivors of sexual assault.

She leads “Coming Home Embodiment Work,” an integrative offering that blends yoga, meditation, somatic movement, journaling, and energy work. Heather teaches at Jiaren Yoga Studio and a local counseling center, offering trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation.

Additional experience includes work with The Art of Yoga Project (2019–2020), over 30 hours of community volunteer service, and recognition as San Jose Library’s Volunteer of the Year (2020). Certified in Laughter Yoga (2021).