DEBORAH KING

“And then there is the butterfly, a most magical creature.The wings of the butterfly are already held inside the caterpillar, and as it breaks its old self into goo the wings emerge ready to go. That process is amazing and teaches me that as we change and transform,we also have everything we need already inside of us. So my organizing and healing work is about building the cocoon that can hold the goo so that the wings can emerge.”

- Micah Hobbes Frazier

SERIES, TRAININGS, IMMERSIONS, & MASTER CLASSES
Regrowing Our Wings: Yoga for People Healing From Trauma

ABOUT
Deborah King (she/her pronouns)- E-RYT 500, YACEP (Yoga Alliance); Advanced Teacher of Yoga Therapy (Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy) is a whiteidentified, cisgender, queer, neurodiverse solo mother of a neurodiverse household, which she runs with the help of her cats on Vashon Island (Puyallup land) outside of Seattle.

She has been practicing yoga her whole life, teaching for 20 years, and doing therapeutic applications for 18. She specializes in trauma, PTSD, sexual and domestic violence, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. Deborah works in partnership with The Dove Project, an intimate and sexual violence advocacy agency, to offer programs to survivors, and during the pandemic, for collective trauma. She also works with people with Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological challenges through The MS Center at Swedish Neuroscience Institute, and with people navigating cancer with Swedish Cancer Center. She teaches full time, publicly and privately.

Deborah’s passion is discovering the unique practice for each person.She uses her extensive understanding of individuality and the nervous system in an experiential way to guide her students to explore the story and the process of their body system, uncovering, unwinding and also celebrating the asymmetries that make us human. https://www.deborahkingyoga.com