Shaye Molendyke is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT 900-hour), Trauma-informed E-RYT-500, and Continuing Education Provider (YACEP. Shaye has been teaching yoga since 2003 and practicing since 1998 with more than 5,000 teaching hours. Recently, Shaye discovered the power of therapeutic narrative and loves to combine stories with the latest discoveries in quantum physics, neuroscience and epigenetics to empower yoga teachers to better articulate how yoga works to ease suffering and to bring more people to the banquet table of healing that yoga practices offer.
In addition to her client work and group teaching, Shaye is both the Corporate Education Director and Creator/Director of the Warriors and Warriors Kids Certificate of Enhanced Qualification 140-hour and 100-hour Programs at YogaFit Worldwide®. These curricula are trauma-informed yoga protocols designed to help and empower anyone struggling with PTSD or with unresolved physical and emotional trauma to include yoga teachers, mental health workers, educators, veterans, their families, first responders and those who help and support them. In addition, within YogaFit Worldwide®, Shaye serves as a Senior Master Trainer and as a mentor and faculty member of its Healthcare Yoga Therapy Program.
Shaye is a 28-year Air Force veteran, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. She earned her Master’s in Counseling from the University of Maryland in 2003 while she was in the military and spent a year working directly with veterans returning from the Iraq war on the in-patient psychiatric ward at Landstuhl base Germany. In 2012, she combined her military and counseling experience with her love of yoga in creating the trauma-sensitive yoga programs she is in charge of today at YogaFit Worldwide®. Shaye remains committed and passionate about bridging the related fields of somatic based psychotherapies and trauma-informed yoga and recently completed the HearthMath® Clinical Certification for Stress, Anxiety, and Self-Regulation providing clients with tools to use Heart Rate Variability monitoring for daily stress management.
Shaye’s areas of specialization include:
Yoga:
Trauma-informed, Vinyasa, Restorative, Gentle, Strength/Power, Prenatal, Seniors/Chair
Yoga Therapy:
Conditions: PTSD/Traumatic Brain Injury, Addictions, Anxiety and Depression, Teen and Adult Mental Health, Childhood Trauma
Special Interests: Working with groups and individuals to help process unresolved traumas including long-held childhood traumas; Use of the Therapeutic Narrative and Theme-Weaving for self-awareness; exploring and educating others on the science behind yoga; yoga and therapy with adolescents and teen populations
Other:
Educating clinicians, practitioners, and yoga teachers on the science of our brain and nervous system
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