Wilton YMCA Free Parent Workshop: Tools for Working with Anxiety

Hosted by the Wilton Family YMCA, this free parent workshop, “Tools for Working with Anxiety,” will introduce practical tools to interrupt the anxiety loop by purposefully cueing an activation of our parasympathetic nervous system. Using mindful awareness, breath, and body we will explore ways to shift our nervous systems from a state of “fight, flight, or freeze” to a place of “rest and digest.”

The workshop is presented by Jennifer Barrett, who has been working with children for over two decades. She is the founder of We Grow Yoga and provides yoga and mindful awareness training to children of all ages as well as to the teachers and parents who guide them. She holds degrees in elementary and special needs education from Boston College. She has a 20 year dedicated yoga practice, and is an active and registered member of Yoga Alliance. She is certified both through ChildLight Yoga and holds a 200 hour teacher certification through Breathe For Change with the lens of bringing yoga and mindful awareness practices to school communities. She especially loves her work as a mother of three amazing sons and as a meditation facilitator for The Community Mindfulness Project.

Register here on the Wilton YMCA website and search “Parent Workshop.”

Email Kim Murphy or Kimberly Fejes with questions.