What is Breathing Room?

Breathing Room provides yoga therapeutic, clinical mental health and holistic health services worldwide to individuals and communities. Breathing Room provides accessible and personalized individual yoga therapy sessions and trauma informed trainings to communities and organizations looking to deepen their understanding of how trauma impacts and a mind-boy approach to healing trauma.

Breathing Room is a dream that started out of my home basement studio in 2014 and has now has bloomed from off of the yoga mat and out into the world to share.

Breathing Room was started by Ruth Krug who holds a Master in Social Work (MSW), is also a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and is a Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher & Trainer + a 500 I-RYT Yoga Therapy Teacher. She is a Mental Health Therapist, a Restorative Justice Facilitator, a Medical Social Worker and a Writer + Author on healing and mindful embodiment.

Ruth travels around the world and is based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. She has been teaching trauma informed yoga for over 10 years. She also works as a social worker in community health to bridge the gap in bringing holistic health care to every body.

What is Trauma Informed Yoga?

Yoga has been an ancient and holistic practice of healing for thousands of years. Research has proven that yoga has been shown to be adjunctive mental health intervention, reducing symptoms of PTSD and other mental health issues, particularly for individuals who are non-responsive to cognitive-based psychotherapies (talk therapy). This research has come out of Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TSY) which is an empirically validated, clinical intervention for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The goal of a trauma informed yoga practice is to feel empowered, build resiliency and establish greater self-regulation. Trauma Informed yoga also emphasis accessibility to all, offering choices and teaching in a way that any body can benefit.

Embodied Offerings

1:1 Clinical Yoga Therapy

Want to keep deeper into your yoga practice or learn how to create your own at home yoga practice? Yoga therapy is designed for you and your specific needs if it be chronic pain or emotional pain, yoga therapy is about bringing the body and mind back into balance.

Trauma Informed Yoga Workshops

Join me for this informative and transformational workshop to learn more about the Neuroscience behind Trauma and how Yoga can help. The topic is especially relevant in our current era of the COVID Pandemic, where everyone is experiencing some form of collective and individual traumas. You’ll learn various yogic methods that can be helpful for personal coping and supporting others in their healing journey.

These workshops can be designed for individuals, organizations and tailored to fit the populations you want to work with and learn more about supporting in a holistic way.

Sacred Space Healing

If you are trying to find a trauma informed energy practitioner and group ceremony facilitator you are in the right place. Ruth holds her Reiki Master certification and also has studied and trained in how to holding sacred healing ceremonies in Central America. If you are looking to let go of stuck, heavy energy this is the mo you. Reiki and ceremonies can be preformed 1:1 or also in a group. Ruth specializes in healing ceremonies for grief, transitions, trauma, connecting back to your heart +soul and more. Learn more here.

Discover your breathing room.

“Your body is your first home. Breathing in, I arrive in my body. Breathing out, I am home.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, a Mindfulness Meditation Zen Master & Teacher