Emotional Wellness Yoga for Mental Health:
anxiety, depression, and trauma
Emotional Wellness Yoga bridges the science of mental health with the wisdom of the body. It’s a personalized, trauma-informed approach to healing that weaves together:
You don’t need to "be flexible" or experienced in yoga. You just need to be open to a new way of healing, one that honors all of you.
This Work Is for You If You:
- Somatic movement (gentle, intentional, and accessible)
- Breathwork and nervous system regulation
- Mindfulness and meditation practices
- Emotional processing through the body
- Deep rest and integrative self-awareness
You don’t need to "be flexible" or experienced in yoga. You just need to be open to a new way of healing, one that honors all of you.
This Work Is for You If You:
- Feel stuck in anxiety, overwhelm, or burnout
- Struggle to “get out of your head”
- Want to reconnect with your body after trauma
- Long for peace, but aren’t sure how to get there
- Have tried talk therapy but want something more embodied
- Are ready to shift from surviving to truly living
FROM OUTER CHAOS TO INNER CALM:
A 6-WEEK EMBODIED HEALING SERIES FOR WOMEN
This live, virtual program is not just another wellness checklist. It’s a guided journey back to your body, your breath, and your truth. Each week, you’ll gently reconnect with yourself through trauma-informed yoga, mindfulness, and nervous system support. You’ll release the tension you’ve been carrying and rediscover the calm, clarity, and steadiness that already live within you. This isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about coming home to who you truly are.
Who It's For
"From Outer Chaos to Inner Calm" is for deep-feeling, busy women (often creatives, caregivers, professionals, healers) who:
What You’ll Learn & Experience
Over 6 powerful weeks, you’ll learn to:
Each Session Includes
6-Week Curriculum at a Glance
Bonuses
Logistics
If your body exhaled reading this, take that as your sign. You’re not broken. You’re not alone. And there is a way through that doesn’t require pushing harder. Are you ready to go from chaos to calm?
Questions? Email me at hello@joannabarrett.com.
Join us: Email hello@joannabarrett.com to register.
*Subject Line: "I'm Ready to Go From Outer Chaos to Inner Calm"
Who It's For
"From Outer Chaos to Inner Calm" is for deep-feeling, busy women (often creatives, caregivers, professionals, healers) who:
- Feel stuck, misaligned, or quietly unfulfilled
- Are navigating perfectionism, anxiety, or burnout
- Are exhausted from looping through self-doubt and overdoing
- Crave more peace, space, and self-trust
- Are ready for a mind-body approach that doesn’t bypass the hard stuff
What You’ll Learn & Experience
Over 6 powerful weeks, you’ll learn to:
- Calm your nervous system using breathwork, gentle yoga, and mindfulness
- Soften your inner critic and perfectionist tendencies using IFS-informed tools
- Reconnect with your body as a source of wisdom
- Feel your emotions with compassion and safety
- Get clear on what really matters—so you can live in alignment
Each Session Includes
- Grounding movement and breathwork practices
- A weekly soul-centered theme + teaching
- Journaling prompts + personal reflection
- Group sharing (always optional, always safe)
6-Week Curriculum at a Glance
- Week 1: Arriving & Grounding – Creating Safety in Body + Mind
- Week 2: Listening Within – Befriending the Inner Critic
- Week 3: Releasing Perfectionism & Overdoing – Moving from Performance to Presence
- Week 4: Returning to the Body’s Wisdom – Somatic Self-Awareness
- Week 5: Redefining Alignment – Living from the Inside Out
- Week 6: Integration & Ritual – Anchoring the Journey Forward
Bonuses
- Weekly email check-in from Joanna
- Integration workbook
- Optional audio meditations and yoga flows for between sessions
Logistics
- Dates: Tuesdays from 6:30–7:45pm EST, starting June 10
- Location: Live via HIPAA-compliant video platform
- Investment: $450 (sliding scale/payment plans available)
- Space: Limited to 8 participants to keep the container intimate and supportive
If your body exhaled reading this, take that as your sign. You’re not broken. You’re not alone. And there is a way through that doesn’t require pushing harder. Are you ready to go from chaos to calm?
Questions? Email me at hello@joannabarrett.com.
Join us: Email hello@joannabarrett.com to register.
*Subject Line: "I'm Ready to Go From Outer Chaos to Inner Calm"
Yoga for Emotional Liberation
A 3-Month Program for Women Ready to Move from Chaos to Calm
Yoga for Emotional Liberation is a 3-month, trauma-informed mentorship and healing journey designed for women who are ready to move from a life of internal chaos to one of calm, clarity, and self-trust.
This isn’t about being more productive.
This isn’t about striving for the “perfect” mindset or pose.
This is about releasing what you’ve been carrying—and finally coming home to yourself.
Through gentle yoga, mindfulness, nervous system support, journaling, and embodied practice, you’ll create meaningful, lasting change—from the inside out.
This Program Is For You If:
What You’ll Receive:
What We’ll Explore Together:
Questions? Email me at hello@joannabarrett.com.
Join us: Email hello@joannabarrett.com to be added to the interest list.
*Subject line: "I'm Interested in Yoga for Emotional Liberation"
This isn’t about being more productive.
This isn’t about striving for the “perfect” mindset or pose.
This is about releasing what you’ve been carrying—and finally coming home to yourself.
Through gentle yoga, mindfulness, nervous system support, journaling, and embodied practice, you’ll create meaningful, lasting change—from the inside out.
This Program Is For You If:
- You’re constantly on edge or exhausted, even when “nothing is wrong”
- You feel stuck in cycles of overthinking, overgiving, or overworking
- You long for peace, presence, and deeper connection to yourself
- You’re craving something real... eyond tips, tricks, or quick fixes
- You’re ready for a healing path that honors your full humanity: body, mind, and heart
What You’ll Receive:
- 1/2-Day In-Person Intensive (held in the DC/Northern Virginia area)
- Weekly Customized Yoga and Meditation Practices
- Somatic Tools to calm your nervous system and support emotional healing
- Weekly Reflection Prompts & Guided Journaling
- Workbook
- Safe, Sacred Space held by a licensed therapist and experienced yoga teacher
What We’ll Explore Together:
- Phase 1: GROUNDING: Cultivate safety, nervous system awareness, and body trust.
- Phase 2: RECONNECTION: Release emotional tension, reconnect to your inner voice, and rebuild resilience.
- Phase 3: EXPANSION: Clarify your path, claim your truth, and live from a grounded sense of wholeness.
Questions? Email me at hello@joannabarrett.com.
Join us: Email hello@joannabarrett.com to be added to the interest list.
*Subject line: "I'm Interested in Yoga for Emotional Liberation"
Private Emotional Wellness Yoga (1:1)
Private Emotional Wellness Yoga sessions offer you a personalized space to explore your emotional and nervous system patterns through a gentle, therapeutic lens. Each session is tailored to your body, your needs, your pace. Sessions may take place virtually or in the Washington, DC or Northern Virginia areas.
For the Woman Who Holds It All Together, But Is Ready to Exhale
You’re the strong one.
The dependable one.
The one who keeps it all running.
From the outside, you look composed—maybe even thriving.
But on the inside, you're running on fumes.
You’re exhausted from over-functioning.
Anxious from the constant pressure.
Disconnected from your body, your breath, and, honestly… from yourself.
You’ve tried to keep it all together—maybe with therapy, journaling, the occasional meditation app. But something still feels off.
That whisper inside you?
It’s saying: “I can’t live like this anymore.”
You’re Ready for More Than Coping.
You’re Ready for Change.
You want to feel grounded in your body.
At ease in your nervous system.
Present with yourself.
You want peace that lasts longer than a weekend walk.
Relief that goes deeper than another checklist of “shoulds.”
You want to feel like yourself again.
Emotional Wellness Yoga Is the Bridge.
This is not a fitness class.
This is not a performance.
This is healing through presence.
Emotional Wellness Yoga blends therapeutic yoga, mindfulness, and nervous system education in a way that feels safe, accessible, and deeply nourishing.
It’s designed for real-life women—helpers, healers, sensitive souls—who are ready to reconnect to their bodies and release the pressure they’ve been carrying for too long.
Inside Every Session, You’ll Find:
You don’t need any experience with yoga. You just need the desire to feel better, more steady, more whole, more you.
This Practice Can Help You:
The Transformation Is Subtle—But Profound.
It begins when you start breathing again.
When you feel your feet on the ground.
When your body becomes a place of safety, not stress.
And from there, you begin to reclaim your truth.
Your rhythm. Your calm. Your power.
You Don’t Need to Push Through.
You Need to Come Home.
Let Emotional Wellness Yoga be your return—
to breath, to body, to self.
Join a session, series, or seasonal workshop.
This is your time.
For the Woman Who Holds It All Together, But Is Ready to Exhale
You’re the strong one.
The dependable one.
The one who keeps it all running.
From the outside, you look composed—maybe even thriving.
But on the inside, you're running on fumes.
You’re exhausted from over-functioning.
Anxious from the constant pressure.
Disconnected from your body, your breath, and, honestly… from yourself.
You’ve tried to keep it all together—maybe with therapy, journaling, the occasional meditation app. But something still feels off.
That whisper inside you?
It’s saying: “I can’t live like this anymore.”
You’re Ready for More Than Coping.
You’re Ready for Change.
You want to feel grounded in your body.
At ease in your nervous system.
Present with yourself.
You want peace that lasts longer than a weekend walk.
Relief that goes deeper than another checklist of “shoulds.”
You want to feel like yourself again.
Emotional Wellness Yoga Is the Bridge.
This is not a fitness class.
This is not a performance.
This is healing through presence.
Emotional Wellness Yoga blends therapeutic yoga, mindfulness, and nervous system education in a way that feels safe, accessible, and deeply nourishing.
It’s designed for real-life women—helpers, healers, sensitive souls—who are ready to reconnect to their bodies and release the pressure they’ve been carrying for too long.
Inside Every Session, You’ll Find:
- Grounding breathwork to quiet your mind
- Gentle, trauma-informed movement to release tension
- Nervous system support tools you can use every day
- Mindful practices to increase self-compassion
- A safe space to slow down, soften, and just be
You don’t need any experience with yoga. You just need the desire to feel better, more steady, more whole, more you.
This Practice Can Help You:
- Ease anxiety and emotional overwhelm
- Reconnect with your body in a kind and nonjudgmental way
- Release chronic tension and stress
- Build resilience in your nervous system
- Find inner calm—without abandoning your outer responsibilities
- Show up for your life with more clarity, softness, and strength
The Transformation Is Subtle—But Profound.
It begins when you start breathing again.
When you feel your feet on the ground.
When your body becomes a place of safety, not stress.
And from there, you begin to reclaim your truth.
Your rhythm. Your calm. Your power.
You Don’t Need to Push Through.
You Need to Come Home.
Let Emotional Wellness Yoga be your return—
to breath, to body, to self.
Join a session, series, or seasonal workshop.
This is your time.
Group sessions coming soon!
Restorative Yoga
Helps us to relax and rest deeply and completely. Restorative yoga relieves the effects of chronic stress, stimulates and soothes the organs, reverses the effects of gravity, and permeates the body with energy. Restorative postures are usually adapted from supine or seated yoga poses with the addition of blocks, bolsters, and blankets to eliminate unnecessary strain.
Yin Yoga
A style of yoga where gentle passive postures are held for sustained periods of time. Positive 'stress' is put on the deep layers of the connective tissue. Yin yoga restores and maintains the natural mobility of the joints. This style of yoga allows for deeper meditative experiences as well. Yin yoga is a complimentary practice to the dynamic and invigorating styles of yoga.
Vinyasa FLOW Yoga
A flowing and dynamic form of yoga. The poses link together as if they were a dance on the mat. Each pose moves rhythmically on an inhale or exhale breath. This style of yoga connects postures and creates heat in the body in order to release tension. Vinyasa yoga allows for a lot of variety, but always includes postures which build strength, followed by postures for stretching.
Prenatal Yoga
Offers expectant mothers a place to explore the changes in their bodies and minds. Gentle stretching and strengthening often relieves many common pregnancy discomforts, while also preparing the mother for labor and birth. Prenatal yoga classes adapt traditional postures to the needs of a changing pregnant body. Prenatal yoga is safe for the mother and baby.
Additional yoga offerings
GrouP Emotional wellness yoga sessions
Asana (physical movements), Pranayama (breathing techniques), Mantra (affirmations), Mudra (hand positions), Meditation (visualization), and Yogic Philosophy are seamlessly woven into personalized sessions. Guiding clients to promote inner and outer healing, restore balance, and increase vitality fosters an optimal state of physical and emotional well-being, both on and off the yoga mat.
No prior experience is needed, and all are welcome to experience the practice of yoga.
