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Welcome to OpenView Yoga! A trauma-sensitive virtual community for embodied practice, professional learning, and steady support.

Start with live Classes & Workshops—trauma-sensitive, accessible practices that support nervous system balance, connection, and embodied awareness, with options and choice throughout.

If you’re here for professional development, explore Trainings—practical frameworks you can bring into real sessions, grounded in safety, choice, and presence.

You’re welcome exactly as you are.

New here? Start with live Classes & Workshops.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga & Movement

Many people carry the impacts of stress, trauma, or difficult life experiences in their bodies. Trauma-sensitive yoga offers gentle pathways to restore a sense of safety and connection, helping participants feel more at home within themselves. Rather than pushing or forcing, the practice invites curiosity, awareness, and compassion.

Trauma-sensitive yoga is a compassionate approach to movement and breath that emphasizes safety, choice, and present-moment awareness. This practice invites you to notice what feels supportive in your body and to explore movement at your own pace. By shifting the focus to inner experience, trauma-sensitive yoga creates space for healing, reconnection, and self-agency.

The benefits of trauma-sensitive yoga may look different for everyone, but some common experiences include:

Reconnecting with your body in ways that feel safe, supportive, and nourishing
Strengthening your capacity to meet stress and emotions with steadiness and awareness
Exploring choice and empowerment, honoring what feels right for you in each moment
Creating community, where practicing together—even virtually—reminds us that healing doesn’t have to happen alone and that support can be found in shared presence
Cultivating a sense of agency, discovering that you can influence how your body feels and gently shift your experience through movement and breath

These benefits often unfold gradually and gently, reminding us that healing is a process.

Openview Yoga Offerings

Trauma Sensitive Yoga Classes & Workshops

Our trauma-sensitive yoga group classes are offered online in a safe and welcoming space, where you’re always invited to move or pause in ways that feel right for you. These practices focus less on how things look and more on how your body feels, creating space to reconnect with yourself at your own pace and in your own way.

Private 1:1 Sessions

One-on-one trauma-sensitive yoga tailored to your unique needs, offering space for movement and reflection. As we all move into these practices with our indivigual bodies, backgrounds and experiences, a 1:1 session creates space to explore what works and feels useful for your body.

Rooted in Recovery Coaching

Combines strategic addcition recovery coaching with trauma-sensitive yoga to support individuals at any stage of recovery. Whether rebuilding in early recovery or navigating long-term challenges, sessions offer gentle movement, grounding strategies, breath awareness, and reflective conversation—all centered on safety, choice, and agency. Together, these practices provide practical tools for daily life, strengthen empowerment, and support meaningful connection with yourself & others.

Professional Trainings

Foundational and continuing education for yoga teachers, therapists, and practitioners who wish to integrate trauma-sensitive principles into their work. These trainings combine practice, reflection, and discussion to explore how safety, choice, and present-moment awareness can transform professional settings and communities. Participants gain practical tools to create supportive environments, deepen their understanding of trauma’s impact, and build confidence in applying trauma-informed care.

Professional Coaching

One-on-one consultation for yoga teachers, therapists, and other professionals who want to deepen their understanding of trauma-sensitive practice. These sessions provide a supportive space to ask questions, explore challenges, and reflect on real-world experiences. These sessions can also include mentorship in business —developing sustainable offerings and learning trauma-sensitive approaches including marketing and operations.

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Meet the Facilitators

Openview Yoga is guided by a team grounded in safety, compassion, and trauma-sensitive awareness. Each member brings unique experience in trauma-sensitive practices, creating a supportive community where both healing and learning can unfold. Together, we honor choice, empowerment, and connection in every class, workshop, and training.

Keri Sawyer

Founder, Openview Yoga

ERYT 500, YACEP, TCTSY Licensed Trainer

Keri Sawyer is the founder of Openview Yoga, a deeply experienced yoga teacher with over 1000 hours of training, seasoned trainer, and compassionate speaker dedicated to trauma-sensitive and embodied practices. As a licensed Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Trainer and Trainer Liaison with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment, she helps cultivate community and collaboration among a global team of trainers, supporting the growth and accessibility of trauma-sensitive yoga worldwide. She has trained and mentored hundreds of practitioners in integrating body-based approaches to trauma recovery.

Keri also serves as the Somatic Director at the Developmental Trauma Training Institute and sits on the Board of the Namaspa Foundation. An Experienced 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500) and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP), she is known for her grounded, compassionate presence and ability to create inclusive spaces that foster healing and reconnection.

Guided by a deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom and capacity to heal, Keri’s teaching invites curiosity, gentleness, and inner safety through mindful awareness and movement. She continues to advance the field of trauma-sensitive and embodied care through education, collaboration, and mentorship on an international scale.

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Yoga & Somatic Facilitator, TCTSY - Trainer

Anna Maimi

Anna Helena Malmi is a Finnish-Italian yoga teacher and trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator based in Berlin. She coordinates programs for The Center for Trauma and Embodiment and Yoga Hub Berlin. With 15 years of personal practice and over 700 hours of yoga training—including TCTSY, Hatha/Vinyasa, Shakta Yoga, and Restorative Yoga. Anna Helena integrates modern trauma theory, knowledge in anatomy with yoga philosophy and practice.

Her background in International Development, Social Policy, and Gender Studies, and experience in humanitarian projects around the world inform her inclusive approach. She creates learning spaces grounded in compassion, shared learning, community building and embodied agency - where yoga becomes about remembering our innate wholeness and returning to the felt sense of safety and connection.

Movement & Stretch Facilitator, TCTSY - F

Janice Haung

Janice Haung is a Certified Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and holistic healing practitioner dedicated to creating spaces of safety, embodiment, and compassion. Through mindful movement and presence, she supports individuals in reconnecting with their bodies and inner wisdom as part of their healing journey. Her integrative approach blends trauma-sensitive yoga, grief education, movement, sound healing, spinal flow, and healing touch to nurture balance and resilience.

Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, Janice brings a cross-cultural and inclusive spirit to all she does. She is the founder of Present Moment Wellness, LLC, and has served in a variety of healthcare and community settings, including palliative and hospice care, women's cancer programs, and behavioral health. Through Openview Yoga, Janice shares her love of embodied healing—inviting students to explore presence, compassion, and wholeness.

Empowered Through Practice. Supported in Community.

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