Rev. Lenora Rousseau is an E-500 RYT, Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Certified Spiritual Director, Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Practitioner, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Coach.
Lenora is an ordained pastor in the United Methodist Church serving by extension as the Founder and Pastoral Director of Pointe of Grace, LLC and it's affliated divisions, the Pointe of Grace Yoga Institute (POGYI) and Brilliantly You. She regularly offers Christ-Centered Yoga Chapel retreats, Yoga Teacher Training, and works privately with clients who are seeking a transformative and integrative approach to Yoga that enables them to heal from the past and flouish in the present - physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
Most recently, Lenora has expanded her signature 150 HR TI-CYT Yoga Teacher Certification Course to include 150/200 HR and 300/500 HR Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Certification Course options that begins with face-to-face to training at the YogaWell Conference and continue live online thereafter (see "YogaWell" in YACEP directory for more information on the YogaWell 2023 Conference). In addition, she will offering a 40 Hour Trauma-Informed Chair Yoga Teacher Certfication, a 40 Hour Functional Flexibility Yoga Teacher Certification, and a 20 HR Yoga Breathing for Stress Reduction Certification will be available starting in 2024 and 2025. These course provides professional training that equip and empower our students to make a meaningful and measurable difference in their communities by offering safe and effective Trauma-Informed Yoga that supports sustainable healing and transformation.
With the spike in chronic stress and trauma that all human beings are exposed to in the past few years, and the need for effective, trauma-informed Yoga has never better greater. As the lead instructor, Rev. Lenora Rousseau weaves together elements from her academic education including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and more to give her students a firm understanding for how trauma negatively impacts the body, mind, heart, and spirit and the scientifically supported discoveries that demonstrate how Yoga helps to counter those impacts.
If you are interested in learning more about Rev. Lenora Rousseau or her Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Certification courses, please feel free to visit her website at pointeofgraceproject.com (for explicity Christ-Centered courses) or Brilliantly You (for all other course offerings) or email her at pointeofgraceproject@gmail.com.