Keri Sawyer, owner of Openview Yoga, has over a decade of experience facilitating movement and breath practices, embodiment, and trauma informed practices. She is a seasoned speaker and facilitator who has trained thousands of people as an experienced 500 hour yoga teacher and licensed Trainer with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Boston.

 

Keri provides Trauma Sensitive yoga to trauma survivors of all ages, facilitates trainings for yoga teachers and healthcare workers, and provides research-based information and trauma-informed treatment practices to the therapeutic world. She oversees the implementation of of trauma informed practices into therapeutic models in clinical and residential treatment programs across the country along with agency trainings and regular consultation for mental health clinicians, therapists, nurses, massage therapists, yoga teachers and more.

 

Her passion is to provide an opportunity for survivors of trauma to have an authentic experience with a safe and predictable felt sense of their body along with spreading awareness of trauma-informed practices. 

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Keri is the owner of Openview yoga, Somatic Director at the Developmental Trauma Training Institute and The Trainer Liaison for the Center for Trauma and Embodiment where she supports, builds community and communicates with the training team. Keri is also the co-director of training for the Namapsa foundations non profit group that brings yoga into areas of Central Oregon that need it most. 

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Keri specializes in training and facilitating Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Yoga for mental health and therapeutic yoga. She also coaches new and advanced yogis and yoga teachers in deepening their personal practice or exploring teaching practices, workshops and business. Keri is a 200 hour and 500 hour teacher trainer and loves working with others as they explore teaching yoga. 

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