Benefits of Yoga Therapy for Compassion Fatigue and Burnout

Nervous System Regulation
Clinicians learn how chronic stress, emotional labor, and secondary trauma shape their nervous system responses. Through practices like breathwork, grounding, and gentle movement, they begin to shift out of survival mode thus moving from fight, flight, or freeze into a felt sense of safety and calm.

Emotional Awareness & Self-Compassion
Yoga therapy strengthens interoception, the ability to sense what’s happening inside. This gives providers a way to track their emotional and physiological cues in real time, respond with care, and practice self-regulation without judgment. Over time, this builds emotional resilience and capacity.

Reconnection to Self
Holding space for others often requires disconnecting from your own needs. These sessions invite clinicians to come back to themselves, to feel what’s present in their body, soften internal pressure, and release what they’ve been carrying physically and emotionally.

Restoration & Identity Integration
When burnout takes hold, it’s easy to lose sight of who you are beyond the work. Yoga therapy offers a space to remember. Through intentional rest, embodied practice, and nervous system repair, clinicians can reconnect with their sense of purpose, not through effort, but through ease.

Community & Co-Regulation
Group sessions offer more than individual insight. Groups create a sense of shared humanity. Breathing, moving, and grounding together allows for a kind of co-regulation that words alone can’t reach. It’s a gentle reminder that healing doesn’t have to be done alone.

Each Session Includes:

• Gentle, somatic movement practices
• Breathwork and vagus nerve toning techniques
• Guided meditation and sound therapy
• EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique/tapping)
• Education on nervous system and emotional regulation
• Space for integration, rest, and reflection

All sessions are accessible (seated or standing) and guided with compassion, professionalism, and deep respect for what clinicians carry.

Rates & Scheduling

• $200 per 90 minute Workshop 
• $175 per 60 minute Workshop
• 10% Discount when booking 2 or more workshops in a calendar year
• In person on-site at your facility within 60 miles of Richmond, VA and Online from anywhere

Interested in bringing yoga therapy to your team?

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What the Research Shows

Yoga therapy is gaining recognition as an effective intervention for reducing burnout, secondary trauma, and emotional exhaustion among healthcare professionals. Studies highlight its ability to:

• Reduce symptoms of compassion fatigue, anxiety, and chronic stress

• Improve emotional regulation and prevent emotional depletion

• Enhance nervous system flexibility and resilience through vagus nerve stimulation

• Increase body awareness and interoception which are key markers of self-regulation

• Promote neuroplasticity, helping providers shift out of habitual stress responses

• Strengthen self-efficacy, mindfulness, and sustainable self-care practices

Selected research supporting yoga therapy for compassion fatigue and burnout:

Chan, C. (2023). Helping the Helpers: A Self-Help Training for Identifying and Addressing Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Self-Care in Mental Health Professionals (Doctoral dissertation, Alliant International University).

Gregory, A. (2015). Yoga and mindfulness program: The effects on compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction in social workers. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 34(4), 372–393.

Kiley, K. A., Sehgal, A. R., Neth, S., Dolata, J., Pike, E., Spilsbury, J. C., & Albert, J. M. (2018). The effectiveness of guided imagery in treating compassion fatigue and anxiety of mental health workers. Social Work Research, 42(1), 33-43.

Motta, R.W. (2023). Mindfulness Meditation and Secondary Trauma. In: Secondary Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44308-4_10

Murphy, J. (2013). A yoga intervention for counselors with compassion fatigue : a literature review and qualitative case study. : Oregon State University.