Feeling Safe In Your Body With Chronic Pain - by Tonya Rothe

COURSE

Feeling Safe In Your Body With Chronic Pain

With Tonya Rothe

Living with chronic pain or fatigue can change your relationship with your body. It can leave you feeling disconnected, guarded, frustrated, or afraid of doing something that might make things worse. This course offers a slower, softer way to reconnect without pushing, performing, stretching, or forcing yourself into a state you cannot access. Through breath, sensory awareness, rest, and gentle inner movement, you’ll explore what feels safe enough to notice, stay with, and slowly trust. This course is about building a kinder relationship with your body in small, compassionate ways, especially on the days when pain or fatigue has left you feeling far away from yourself.


Meet your Teacher

Tonya is a neurodivergent yoga and meditation teacher with more than 25 years of yoga practice. Her work focuses on making yoga, meditation, breathwork, and rest more accessible for neurodivergent adults and highly sensitive people, especially those navigating burnout, chronic stress, difficulty resting, or traditional practices that haven’t worked well for them. She is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher with additional training in meditation, mindfulness, Yoga Nidra, holistic nutrition, Brain Longevity, and trauma-informed and accessible approaches to yoga. She also holds a master’s degree in Humanities. Tonya teaches yoga as much more than physical poses. Her approach draws from movement, breath, meditation, rest, and yoga philosophy, with an emphasis on understanding your own needs rather than trying to practice in one prescribed way. Her classes and courses offer practical ways to work with your body, mind, energy, and attention in everyday life.

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6 Days

147 students

4.5 stars

11 min / day

Pain

English


Lesson 1

Why We Disconnect From The Body

When you live with chronic pain or fatigue, it’s common to feel distant from your body, like it’s no longer a safe place to be. In this first lesson, we’ll talk about why that happens and why it makes sense. You’ll also be guided through a simple, grounding practice to begin reconnecting with your body in a way that feels safe and supportive.

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Lesson 2

Noticing The Signs Of Disconnection

This lesson helps you recognize how disconnection from your body might be showing up — like numbness, fog, or hyper-awareness of pain. You’ll try a simple practice using touch and sensory noticing to help you feel present again, without overwhelm.

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Lesson 3

Finding Safe Places In The Body

Today’s lesson is about discovering parts of your body that feel quiet, neutral, or just okay — even if other areas hurt. You’ll use gentle touch and attention to rest in these “safe zones,” helping your body begin to trust itself again.

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Lesson 4

Moving Gently From The Inside Out

In this lesson, we explore subtle, imagined movement — motion that begins inside your awareness without needing your body to perform. These inner movements help calm the nervous system and invite a sense of safety without triggering pain.

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Lesson 5

Soothing The Body Through The Senses

This lesson offers a gentle way to reconnect with your body using sound, scent, and temperature. These sensory anchors help calm the nervous system and create a sense of safety, especially on days when movement feels like too much.

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Lesson 6

Coming Home To Your Body

In this final session, we reflect on everything you’ve practiced and gently close the course. There’s no pressure to have everything figured out — just a reminder that your body is still yours, and you can return to it anytime, at your own pace.

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4.5 (10)

Recent Reviews

Tina

December 5, 2025

I have been in the process of accepting but not succumbing to chronic pain in various parts of my body for a couple of decades. It is an up and down journey but it does get easier over time. This is a very gentle course to get started and a good reminder for those who have been practicing. I appreciate her final statement that healing doesn't mean fixing, it means coming home to one's body.

Larry

June 13, 2025

An uplifting, inspiring, and practical course. Thank you!