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I offer a heartfelt self care plan for burnt out overachievers, tools to emotionally self regulate and live a balanced passionate work life.

We uncover your passion to serve in the community from the foundation of your heart.

Be the Change. Make the Shift.

Jill Weiss Ippolito is the founder and CEO of Yoga For Healing Trauma Coaching & Consultations as well as the internationally known nonprofit UpRising Yoga. Jill is a trauma informed yoga educator and coach, and has experienced first hand the healing power of yoga. Jill leads online Trauma Informed Yoga Trainings, and is a writer, consultant, and community program developer.

As the executive director of UpRising Yoga, a non-profit organization that focuses on juvenile detention facilities and teaches yoga life skills to "system involved youth" and communities, probation officers, mental health professionals and many marginalized individuals. UpRising Yoga established over 40 consistent yoga classes a month in diverse communities and municipal organizations across Southern California and 18 drop in centers for unhoused youth. Jill mentors and offers coaching in private and groups online.

Jill remains on the forefront of the effort to change probation culture from punitive to restorative by being a vocal advocate to reform the juvenile justice system in California. In addition to developing a specific yoga curriculum, Jill has educated hundreds of yoga instructors, childcare providers, mental health professionals, and educators through her Trauma Informed Yoga Trainings. These trainings have began part of a mandatory curriculum for many probation officers who work with incarcerated youth.

After many years building the UpRising operation, Jill formed Yoga For Healing Trauma in order to spend more time personally working with organizations across the US and Internationally. Through Yoga For Healing Trauma/YFHT Training Jill offers yoga curriculums, YFHT Trainings, coaching and consultations, including a consultant to Sesame Street for Monster Yoga (with Elmo and his friends).

Currently she is teaching to young adults in federal prison and federal judges altogether and mentoring and coaching burnt out overachievers to emotionally self regulate to live a balanced passionate work life through her Deep Shift Coaching courses.

Please contact for information, trainings and speaking engagements.

JILL WEISS IPPOLITO

I'm passionate about the mission of UpRising Yoga and invite you to donate to this great tax-deductible cause.
Yoga healing for everyone, everywhere, all the time.

UpRising Yoga

UpRising Yoga's mission is to “bring yoga to those incarcerated and underserved communities”
We teach yoga to heal trauma with incarcerated youth, children with a history of foster care and / or commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC), and communities that need it most. We hold trauma informed yoga trainings and teach yoga in areas that do not offer yoga, establishing community.
More: www.uprisingyoga.org