Susan Stevens

Sue Stevens, BS, E-RYT 500, TCTSY-F, YACEP

Sue Stevens is a professional yoga teacher (E-RYT500 hour) and trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator with extensive advanced training and experience in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). She has been teaching adults and children since 2011. 

Sue has trained in numerous types of yoga methodologies including Yoga Warriors International for military/veterans, yoga for children, seniors, substance abuse recovery, cancer, meditation, chair yoga, restorative yoga, yin yoga, yoga nidra, qigong, reiki, and has completed the UMass  MBSR stress reduction program and the post-graduate certificate program in Traumatic Stress Studies at The Trauma Center at JRI. With over 3000 hours of yoga teaching experience and over 1000 hours of yoga training, she is a lifelong learner with a passion for helping others heal and thrive through yoga.

Having personally felt the restorative power of yoga, Sue feels fortunate to be able to share this amazing experience with others.  

Sue’s Experience Teaching Yoga: 

• Since 2011 teaching gentle and all levels yoga to adults and children at the YMCA, community centers and schools
• Trauma Center at JRI programs in Massachusetts – TCTSY at 4 residential programs for at risk youth and teens.
• Wayside Trauma Intervention Services in Milford, MA – TCTSY for women
• Yoga Warriors International for Veterans – Teacher & Trainer
• Annual Worcester MA Trauma Conferences- TCTSY
• Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital, MA – TCTSY for at risk teens
• Worcester MA Public Schools alternative classrooms – TCTSY for grades K - 12
• Community Healthlink Victims Services, Worcester MA - TCTSY
• Enlightened Interventions Health and Integrative Wellness Practice – TCTSY for women
• McLean Fernside Addiction Treatment Program in Princeton, MA – Yoga Warriors
• Veterans Inc., Shrewsbury, MA –Yoga Warriors
• Yellow Ribbon events for active duty military, Bedford, MA – Yoga Warriors
• Alternatives, for Mentally Challenged adults, Southbridge, MA – Gentle yoga
• Mercy Center, for Mentally Challenged adults, Worcester, MA – Chair yoga
• Bedford, MA VA Hospital – Taught in a Study for Military Veterans – Yoga for back pain
• Private and small group classes of chair, gentle and restorative yoga for people with various diseases including MS, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, epilepsy, back pain, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief and other medical and emotional problems.

Workshops Presented:

Yoga Healing Grief, Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness, Yoga/Mindfulness/Trauma Sensitive Yoga in Schools, Yoga Warriors International –  teacher trainings, Trauma Sensitive Yoga - for yoga teacher trainees, Sharing Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Tools with Kids, Teens, and Trauma Survivors, Healing Grief Mindfully

Locations of workshops:

Worcester, MA Public school system, Auburn, MA Public school system, Brockton, MA School system, Hope Floats Wellness Center- Kingston, MA, The Compassion Friends National conferences- Boston MA and Scottsdale AZ, Heartwell Institute in Worcester MA, Central Mass Yoga and Wellness, West Boylston MA, Enlightened Interventions, Worcester MA, Yoga Warriors International –  Vienna VA, Chicago IL, West Boylston MA

My training:

• 200 hr. yoga training, Lucy Cimini, Central Mass Yoga and Wellness, 2011
• 300 hr. yoga training, Daniel Orlansky, Yoga of Energy Flow, 2015
• Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga 300 hr. Certification, Dave Emerson, Center for Trauma & Embodiment – JRI, 2014
• Rest and Restore Restorative Yoga Certification, Judith Hanson Lasater
• Duke Integrative Yoga for Seniors Certification, Kimberly Carson, Carol Krucoff
• Yoga Warriors International™ Teacher Certification & Trainer, Lucy Cimini, Founder
• Medical Qigong - Healer Within Practice Leader, Dr. Roger Jahnke
• Chair Yoga Certification with Paul Jerard, Aura Wellness
• Children's Yoga Certification, Marsha Danzig, Color Me Yoga
• Y12SR Yoga for Recovery Certification, Nikki Myers
• Restorative Yoga for Cancer Certification, Del Bachard, Pinkhippy
• Yin Yoga training, Josh Summers
• Yoga Nidra training, Jennifer Reis
• UMass Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR), Umass Medical
• Mindful Self-Compassion training, Chris Germer
• Thai Yoga Bodywork Level 1 certification, Jennifer Yarro
• Reiki, Levels 1 & 2 certification
• BS in Computer Science, Rivier College, 1984
• Completed the 9 month Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies from the Trauma Center at JRI in Brookline, MA, 2017

Sue Stevens, BS, E-RYT 500, TCTSY-F, YACEP