Sep 14, 2016
Dallas has been working with children, adolescents, and adults in the mental health field for 30+ years. In 2000, while living In Maine, he began looking for large muscle exercise that would not stress his limbs and joints and that he could do in the winter. He found yoga and began what has become a regular practice. Through this practice, he also began to realize the impact of yoga on his own body, mind, and spirit and that how he approached his life was the same both on and off the mat. He learned he could practice and experiment with life changes by first practicing them on the mat. In 2011, Dallas became a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200 hour level by the Yoga Alliance. During his mental health career, he became increasingly interested in complex trauma and its impact on people’s lives. He completed the Trauma Center’s 40-hour Trauma-Sensitive Yoga course in 2013 and then followed up the next year with the Trauma Center’s certification process, completing that in April of 2015. Since February 2015, he teaches 4 groups sessions of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga a week at the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas . He also offers Trauma-Sensitive Yoga classes to individuals there as well. He is open to providing ongoing TSY groups and individual sessions in other venues.