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Kristen Ryder (she/her)
RYT500, E-RYT, YACEP, TCTSY-F
MI-Certified School Psychologist
Clinical LLMSW Candidate-April 2024
Trainings & Certifications
Bookworms Unite! Resource Page
Stillness and Strength Yoga LLC, was created in 2014 to house my specific certification to work with cancer survivors and grew to include other areas of training and passion: offering support via yoga and mindfulness to teens, caregivers, adults, and direct service workers who have experienced chronic stress, complex trauma, PTSD, compassion fatigue, and/or secondary trauma.
Currently, I am a Certified School Psychologist, community violence prevention researcher, Clinical Social Work intern, and community yoga facilitator. I am contracted to offer yoga classes through Munson Medical Center's Health & Wellness Suite at Cowell Family Cancer Center (paused due to covid). I specialize in individual and small group offerings. I am passionate about exploring the connection between our lived experiences and our nervous system's stress response, and offer yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and nature-based stress-reduction practices as possible ways to explore choice-based re-connection to Self and others. I hope to help participants embody practices that suit them as an act of self-care during times of discomfort/suffering.
My 150hr Yoga for Survivors oncology certification, as well as my 300hr TCTSY-F training (Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga-Facilitator), is in addition to my foundational 200hr Hatha yoga teacher certification through Yoga 4 Peace, a non-profit yoga studio located in Metro-Detroit.
As a way to to offer additional stress-reduction and health-supportive practices, I've trained as a Forest Therapy Guide with the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy (ANFT) and offer guided Forestbathing sessions to our community. I see nature as a partner and companion, always present to welcome me back in, just as I am in this moment.
I am a lifelong learner and actively follow research in the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. I am passionate about learning how neuroscience, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, time in nature, and other stress-reduction practices impact our nervous system regulation and our relationship to ourselves and others.
After twelve years practicing as a School Psychologist in the public education system, I recently stepped away from public ed to open a community wellness center that blends trauma-sensitive, body-based, sensory and somatic practices (bottom up) with more cognitive-based mental health supports (top down). In order to reach this goal, and in addition to my yoga & mindfulness certifications, I've completed graduate certificates in both Medical Neuroscience and Applied Education Neuroscience, and am currently completing an additional masters degree and Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment certificate (EBTT), this time in Clinical Social Work, with the end goal of obtaining my PhD in Neuropsychology.
My hope is to support clients in ways that they decide feel supportive. I look forward to increasing Stillness and Strength's offerings and am grateful for this opportunity to be of service to those who feel these practices might be valuable. Wishing you stillness and strength in all that you do.
RYT500, E-RYT, YACEP, TCTSY-F
MI-Certified School Psychologist
Clinical LLMSW Candidate-April 2024
Trainings & Certifications
Bookworms Unite! Resource Page
Stillness and Strength Yoga LLC, was created in 2014 to house my specific certification to work with cancer survivors and grew to include other areas of training and passion: offering support via yoga and mindfulness to teens, caregivers, adults, and direct service workers who have experienced chronic stress, complex trauma, PTSD, compassion fatigue, and/or secondary trauma.
Currently, I am a Certified School Psychologist, community violence prevention researcher, Clinical Social Work intern, and community yoga facilitator. I am contracted to offer yoga classes through Munson Medical Center's Health & Wellness Suite at Cowell Family Cancer Center (paused due to covid). I specialize in individual and small group offerings. I am passionate about exploring the connection between our lived experiences and our nervous system's stress response, and offer yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and nature-based stress-reduction practices as possible ways to explore choice-based re-connection to Self and others. I hope to help participants embody practices that suit them as an act of self-care during times of discomfort/suffering.
My 150hr Yoga for Survivors oncology certification, as well as my 300hr TCTSY-F training (Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga-Facilitator), is in addition to my foundational 200hr Hatha yoga teacher certification through Yoga 4 Peace, a non-profit yoga studio located in Metro-Detroit.
As a way to to offer additional stress-reduction and health-supportive practices, I've trained as a Forest Therapy Guide with the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy (ANFT) and offer guided Forestbathing sessions to our community. I see nature as a partner and companion, always present to welcome me back in, just as I am in this moment.
I am a lifelong learner and actively follow research in the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. I am passionate about learning how neuroscience, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, time in nature, and other stress-reduction practices impact our nervous system regulation and our relationship to ourselves and others.
After twelve years practicing as a School Psychologist in the public education system, I recently stepped away from public ed to open a community wellness center that blends trauma-sensitive, body-based, sensory and somatic practices (bottom up) with more cognitive-based mental health supports (top down). In order to reach this goal, and in addition to my yoga & mindfulness certifications, I've completed graduate certificates in both Medical Neuroscience and Applied Education Neuroscience, and am currently completing an additional masters degree and Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment certificate (EBTT), this time in Clinical Social Work, with the end goal of obtaining my PhD in Neuropsychology.
My hope is to support clients in ways that they decide feel supportive. I look forward to increasing Stillness and Strength's offerings and am grateful for this opportunity to be of service to those who feel these practices might be valuable. Wishing you stillness and strength in all that you do.
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Land Acknowledgement: Leelanau County
From Leelanau County Conservancy: "We acknowledge the waters and lands the Leelanau Conservancy cares for and owns are located on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg—the Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi peoples. Since time immemorial, the Anishinaabeg have lived, worked, honored, and respected these lands. We further acknowledge that the land known today as Leelanau County is comprised of lands acquired under the 1836 and 1855 treaties between the United States and the Ottawa and Chippewa Nation of Indians. Our recognition of the full history of the land we cherish and work to protect is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those on whose ancestral lands we reside. We give thanks to the generous care with which the Anishinaabeg, and those of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, have given and continue to give to this land and our Leelanau community."
https://leelanauconservancy.org/land-acknowledgement/
*Offerings of TCTSY through Stillness and Strength Yoga are not intended to be a replacement for mental health services; moreso adjunct/in addition to/supportive of current mental health services or chosen support teams
How to find mental health supports:
From Leelanau County Conservancy: "We acknowledge the waters and lands the Leelanau Conservancy cares for and owns are located on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg—the Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi peoples. Since time immemorial, the Anishinaabeg have lived, worked, honored, and respected these lands. We further acknowledge that the land known today as Leelanau County is comprised of lands acquired under the 1836 and 1855 treaties between the United States and the Ottawa and Chippewa Nation of Indians. Our recognition of the full history of the land we cherish and work to protect is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those on whose ancestral lands we reside. We give thanks to the generous care with which the Anishinaabeg, and those of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, have given and continue to give to this land and our Leelanau community."
https://leelanauconservancy.org/land-acknowledgement/
*Offerings of TCTSY through Stillness and Strength Yoga are not intended to be a replacement for mental health services; moreso adjunct/in addition to/supportive of current mental health services or chosen support teams
How to find mental health supports:
- If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of hurting themselves or others, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room
- If you or someone your know is experiencing a mental health crisis, dial 988
- Crisis support: text "HOME" to 741741 (www.crisistextline.org/texting-in)
- Traverse City regional crisis support via NLCMH FAST Team: 1-833-295-0616
- Find a therapist: www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
- LGBTQ-specific helpline: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
- OK2SAY (click here for live link): Anyone can report tips confidentially on criminal activities or potential harm directed at students, school employees, or schools. Tips can be submitted 24/7