Culturally-Affirming Wellness Workshops for Individuals, Groups, & Organizations
In-Person in Arizona & Online Internationally
I believe mental health and nervous system knowledge are a human right, not something that should only be available for those who can commit to weekly therapy.
These wellness workshops and trauma-informed yoga classes exist to give you a practical, culturally resonant way to begin, deepen, or sustain the work of healing.
These offerings grew out of my belief that people deserve access to practical, body-based knowledge that can support healing, choice, and well-being in everyday life. These are spaces where immigrant women, first- and second-generation folks, and others living in brown bodies can learn skills, reconnect with themselves, and feel less alone doing it—all through a culturally affirming lens that reduces the masking often required in other wellness spaces.
Education is a powerful tool for change, and with it, I help people connect to the deepest parts of themselves, interrupt automatic survival responses, and carry what they learn back into their families, communities, and workplaces. Education and self-reflection is another way to disrupt intergenerational cycles, strengthen intergenerational resiliency and show up more authentically in the world.
What Is The Community Resiliency Model®?
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® is a simple, body-based way of understanding what happens inside us when life feels like too much for too long. It takes complex neuroscience and translates it into practical skills people can use right away, across cultures, ages, and different lived experiences. The wellness skills you’ll learn can help you notice what’s happening in your body and find more choice in how you respond.
What I value most about the CRM is that it makes this knowledge accessible: it gives people a way to interrupt the automatic reactions to respond more intentionally, create more balance in their nervous systems, and bring these skills back to their families, communities, and workplaces.
You can learn more about The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® here.
What Is Trauma-Informed Yoga?
Trauma-informed yoga is less about performing poses “correctly” and more about creating internal space in your mind and body, coming home to yourself while finding authentic ways to connect to what is around you. In my work, this practice includes meditation, breathwork, movement, and asana taught from an embodied, culturally-affirming perspective. This allows us to honor the roots of yoga and makes room for accessibility, choice, and all bodies. Having choice is a critical part of this experience, and practicing what feels supportive in the present because that can change in a month, within a class or a moment.
It’s also a way of practicing wellness that helps people reconnect with themselves gradually, especially if they have felt avoidant, disconnected, or unsure of how to feel grounded in their bodies. I value this approach because yoga, for me, is not surface-level wellness or fitness—it is a practice that can support rest, reset, self-compassion, and a deeper relationship with the body in community.
Available Services
Offerings designed to help you reconnect with your body, strengthen your inner resources, and extend that same care outward.
Public Group Workshops for Immigrant & BIPOC Women
These groups are designed as a welcoming place to learn, practice, and reconnect with yourself in community. They bring together nervous system education, self-compassion, and restorative, body-based practice in ways that feel practical, culturally affirming, and easier to access than many traditional wellness spaces. Whether you are looking to explore new wellness practices, try an approach that bridges ancestral wisdom and neuroscience, find a sense of community, or add supplementary support alongside other healing work, these spaces are meant to help you feel more connected to yourself and your fellow humans.
Learn more about TLC for Your Nervous System
What does this actually look like?
TLC for Your Nervous System is a virtual two-hour workshop I offer on the first Wednesday of each month at 2pm PST. When you sign up, you’ll receive a Zoom link, payment details, and a PDF workbook to use during the workshop. In our time together, I teach the skills of The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® and weave in self-compassion practices and trauma-informed yoga in ways that feel useful for daily life.
Here’s what you can expect to learn:
How to ‘read’ your autonomic nervous system, the neuroscience of toxic stress and wellness, six wellness skills of the The Community Resiliency Model, (CRM)®, survival responses, and understanding the components of self-compassion and steps to creating an embodied daily practice.
Who can benefit most from this?
This offering is especially supportive if you’re curious about somatic (body-based) work but not quite sure where to begin, or if you’ve done some therapy and still feel like there’s a missing piece when it comes to what happens physically in your body in relation to your thoughts and feelings.
It can also be a good fit if you’re looking for something that feels more culturally responsive, flexible enough to fit into your busy life, and less draining than spaces where you feel like you have to mask or explain things about your identity. These workshops are available internationally, so you can learn these valuable skills from wherever you are.
What can I expect to get out of this?
My hope is that you’ll walk away with practical skills you can use right away, along with a clearer understanding of how toxic stress impacts the nervous system and a greater sense of hope that change is possible.
This workshop is a place to begin befriending your body, practicing self-compassion, and learning how to respond to stress with more awareness and intention. This space also offers something equally as important as tangible skills: a sense of community and a more consistent, culturally affirming place to return to.
What is the investment?
I offer TLC for Your Nervous System on a community payment scale. The following tiers are available depending on your financial flexibility:
Sustainer (true cost to hold the workshop and materials): $100
Supporter (pay-it-forward for folks who have greater financial capacity): $140
Community (for folks who would otherwise may not attend due to finances) $50*
*For folks who are not able to pay the Community rate and would still like to attend please reach out to rpatel@praxis-therapy.org.
Is there a way to keep practicing once I take the workshop?
Once you have completed the workshop, you are welcome to return to the workshop as many times as you would like to deepen your practice at no-cost or for a pay-it-forward donation so this workshop can continue to be accessible.
What would next steps for this look like?
Reach out for more information on how to register for the next workshop here. I’ll make sure you have the details you need to join, along with everything required to prepare for the session.
Dates for workshop: every first Wednesday at 2pm PT for rest of calendar year
Register HERE
Rising Embers Survivors Circle
Rising Embers Survivors Circle is an eight week yoga program for survivors of sexual assault. I offer this program on a rotating basis both in-person and virtually.
Learn more about Rising Embers Survivors Circle
What does this actually look like?
Rising Embers Survivors Circle is an eight week yoga program for survivors of sexual assault. I offer this program on a rotating basis both in-person and virtually . We begin with intention, meditation, and move into restorative movement and asana that supports the nervous system. This is not a physically rigorous class. Each class focuses on a topic that supports the survivors’ journey around connecting mind, body and spirit in a gentle and supportive way. Topics include safety, boundaries, and exploring inner strength and assertiveness amongst others. It’s a practice rooted in compassion, choice, restoration, and expanding your internal capacity as a survivor.
Next Group Dates for 2026 TBA
Please fill out this brief application to express your interest and for updates regarding the next offering.
Who can benefit most from this?
This offering can be a good fit if you’re looking for a way to practice trauma-informed yoga that feels more culturally resonant, accessible, and affirming for all bodies. Because this is a program designed for those who have been survivors of sexual assault, practicing self-compassion and choice is emphasized in each class. As a South Asian woman (and trauma survivor) who feels deeply connected to the cultural roots of yoga, it’s important to me to offer this space for those who feel out of place in more typical yoga spaces or want a practice that goes beyond fitness for their own healing. This program is not a replacement for therapy, and it is important folks in this space have access to support and resources outside of the program to support their healing.
What can I expect to get out of this?
My hope is that you’ll leave feeling more connected with yourself after having nurtured your relationship with your body, knowing you can return to teachings from this practice whenever it feels supportive for you. This circle is also a place to continue building self-compassion, connect with a sense of community, and feel relief from the expectation to mask or push through your feelings as a survivor living within multiple intersecting identities.
What is the investment?
- Sustainer (true cost to hold the workshop and materials): $350
- Supporter (pay-it-forward for folks who have greater financial capacity): $425
- Community (for folks who would otherwise may not attend due to finances) $275
What would the next step be if I’m interested?
Please fill out this brief application form to ensure this program is a right fit for you at this stage in your healing process.
Chai and Chat Community Gatherings
These community workshops are designed to explore identity and cross-cultural mental health education through nature, art, movement, community service and collaboration with providers and organizations who support a culturally-responsive lens in their work.
What: More Than a Mirror: Self-Portrait Workshop, hosted by Saarika Rao, LCSW and Reena Patel, LCSW
Spend time creating a self-portrait with guided instruction and discussion to explore identity. An opportunity to give voice to your creative side in community (no art experience required)
- When: September 19th, 2026, from 10-12pm PST
- Cost: $45/person, supplies and light snacks included
- Who: Women 18+
- Where: Chandler, AZ (exact location TBA)
Learn more about Chai and Chat Community Gatherings
Gathering dates and locations coming soon!
Workplace Well-Being Workshops
These workplace workshops are for teams and organizations seeking practical support for burnout, feedback, communication, and creating a more sustainable way of working together. I bring a trauma-informed, nervous-system-aware lens to conversations that are often treated as performance issues, helping teams build shared language, stronger leadership, and more room for people to be human at work. This goes beyond surface-level wellness to give people support and skills they can actually use in their roles, relationships, and their lives outside of work.
Learn more about Workplace Well-being for everyBODY
What does this actually look like?
These workshops can range from a three-hour training to two full days, depending on what your team needs. We’ll customize the experience for you, and decide what format makes the most sense: either one intensive training or several, shorter offerings spread out over a month so people have more time to practice and build on what they’re learning.
I include hardcopy and digital materials, real-time skills practice, and follow-up consultation to help your team actually use what they’ve learned back in the workplace.
What kinds of teams or organizations is this best suited for?
This is best suited for women-owned businesses, non-profits, organizations, universities, and other workplaces in any industry that want to support their staff in a real way, not just talk about wellness in theory.
It can be especially helpful for teams that are dealing with burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, disconnection, or difficulty giving feedback, and want practical tools that can support both staff and leadership. It’s also a strong fit for workplaces that care about equity and inclusion and want to create a healthier, less toxic culture with a shared language around what happens when people are under pressure.
Additionally, they’re great for workplaces looking to support an existing EAP or expand their options in innovative ways for employees and staff regarding mental health and wellness—skills they can use at work and take home to their personal lives.
What can we expect to get out of this?
My hope is that your team walks away with skills that are simple, powerful, and usable right away. I teach and adapt The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® which is an evidence-based set of skills that can be used across a workplace—from receptionist to CEO—to support meetings, feedback, debriefs, crisis response, and everyday communication.
Teams often leave with a stronger shared language, more trust and transparency, and a clearer understanding of how to create a workplace that feels more trauma-informed and strengths-based, more supportive, and more sustainable for the people in it.
What is the investment?
Pricing depends on the size of the team, the length of the training, and what kind of follow-up support would be most useful. Because these workshops are customized, I offer a complimentary discovery call to talk through pricing options based on your needs.
What would the next step be if I’m interested?
You can book a complimentary consultation here, and also fill out this brief interest form. On that call, we can talk through what your team is navigating, what kind of support would be most helpful, and what a custom package could look like.
These educational offerings can be deeply supportive, but they’re not a replacement for therapy or crisis care.
These offerings are educational, which means they are meant to teach skills, offer support, and create space for learning and practice—but they are not therapy. They are not the right fit if you are in acute crisis, need clinical treatment, or are looking for support with diagnosis or trauma processing.
If that sounds like you, I want you to have access to the kind of support that can truly hold you and meet your needs. I’m happy to discuss whether working together in a therapeutic capacity would be a good fit, or refer you to the appropriate level of care.
When you begin tending to your own well-being, the ripple effects go further than you can imagine.
