B. Sokari Brown

b. sokari brown is a trauma-informed Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Practitioner Psychotherapist. With over 10 years of nursing experience, her background includes pediatric primary/acute care and psychiatry/mental health for individuals, children and adolescents, families, and groups. Her work, rooted in a healing justice framework, is devoted to helping BIPOC individuals, children, parents, and communities explore and understand the ways that adverse experiences impact our minds, bodies, and emotions.

 

sokari is a certified yoga and meditation teacher and founder of Courageous Space Yoga. She earned her 200-hour yoga certification at Sacred Chill West under the guidance and leadership of Octavia Raheem and Meryl Arnett. It was during this training that she began to explore the power of mindfulness as a tool for self-compassion, courage, and liberation. She earned her 300-hour yoga certification under the guidance of Michelle C. Johnson, where she examined the intersection of yoga and social justice.

 

She is certified as a teacher of Yoga for 12-Step Addiction Recovery (Y12SR) and is devoted to being a resource for individuals in recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions, and compulsions.

 

Through mindfulness-based therapy, meditation, sound, and other somatic practices, she helps individuals understand the impact of trauma (acute, systemic, generational, etc.) in order to build resilience, create connection, and cultivate safety. Her work leaves SPACE for personal growth and creativity.

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It is her hope, that with every practice you share, that you work towards cultivating courage and liberation from the inside out.