Jill Ippolito

Jill Ippolito is a leading Trauma-Informed Yoga Educator, Keynote Speaker, and Executive Mindset Coach. She is the Founder and CEO of Yoga For Healing Trauma and the nonprofit organization UpRising Yoga. Jill is sought out for her extraordinary approach to healing trauma with Yoga Life Skills with a unique blend of humor and lived experience.

As the Executive Director of UpRising Yoga, Jill spearheads initiatives to bring yoga life skills to "system-involved youth," probation officers, mental health professionals, and marginalized individuals. Under her leadership, UpRising Yoga has established over 40 consistent yoga classes a month across Southern California and 18 drop-in centers for unhoused youth. Jill is a vocal advocate for reforming the juvenile justice system in California, working passionately to shift probation culture from punitive to restorative.

Jill's impact extends beyond direct teaching. She has developed specialized yoga curriculums and has educated hundreds of yoga instructors, first responders, childcare providers, mental health professionals, and educators through her Trauma Informed Yoga Trainings. These trainings have become integral to the mandatory curriculum for many probation officers working with incarcerated youth.

Additionally Jill founded Yoga For Healing Trauma, offering yoga curriculums, coaching, and consultations worldwide, including serving as a consultant to Sesame Street for Monster Yoga (with Elmo and his friends).

Jill Ippolito is a leading Trauma-Informed Yoga Educator, Keynote Speaker, and Executive Mindset Coach. She is the Founder and CEO of Yoga For Healing Trauma and the nonprofit organization UpRising Yoga. Jill is sought out for her extraordinary approach to healing trauma with Yoga Life Skills with a unique blend of humor and lived experience.

As the Executive Director of UpRising Yoga, Jill spearheads initiatives to bring yoga life skills to "system-involved youth," probation officers, mental health professionals, and marginalized individuals. Under her leadership, UpRising Yoga has established over 40 consistent yoga classes a month across Southern California and 18 drop-in centers for unhoused youth. Jill is a vocal advocate for reforming the juvenile justice system in California, working passionately to shift probation culture from punitive to restorative.

Jill's impact extends beyond direct teaching. She has developed specialized yoga curriculums and has educated hundreds of yoga instructors, first responders, childcare providers, mental health professionals, and educators through her Trauma Informed Yoga Trainings. These trainings have become integral to the mandatory curriculum for many probation officers working with incarcerated youth.

Additionally Jill founded Yoga For Healing Trauma, offering yoga curriculums, coaching, and consultations worldwide, including serving as a consultant to Sesame Street for Monster Yoga (with Elmo and his friends).

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Yoga Life Skills - Self Care Mindset (Sit Breathe Feel)
Saturday | May 3, 2025
6:30 am – 7:30 am

Session Description

Engage in basic mindful yoga poses (with and without chairs), breathing and meditative techniques that are useful for restoring and maintaining well-being and improving the body's flexibility and vitality. Instruction is taught in a trauma sensitive approach that takes into account each individual student’s physical ability. Participants are provided with positive reinforcement so that they feel encouraged to continue with their mindful yoga practice. Life Skills are introduced to provide education, leadership and confidence for autonomy.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will explain four principles and terminology of trauma-informed yoga life skills: Terminology of Trauma-Informed Yoga Life Skills: Grounding, Resourcing, Window of Tolerance, Body Awareness.
• Participants will be able to identify and demonstrate four different trauma-informed YLS chair yoga postures they can practice with their clients. (Handout)
• Participants will acquire a list of four different yoga postures and their benefits, as well as a sequence they can practice themselves, and share with their clients and with their co-workers thus developing community.
• Participants will learn the difference between “yoga” and “Trauma Informed Yoga Life Skills.”
• Participants will gain knowledge and experience in yoga life skills.
• Participants will learn how to apply trauma informed yoga, consisting of specific breathing and stretching techniques, for themselves, their clients and co-workers.