Connection Coalition

Join Terri Cooper Space and Barbara LIVE on IG for a deep dive into this important conversation!✨

We'll explore the reasons behind this shift, the benefits of trauma-informed yoga, and how it can help us create a more compassionate and inclusive yoga community.❤️

Don't miss this insightful conversation!
🗓️ Date: August 1at 3pm.

🔥Are you ready to make a difference?

Once again, we're gearing up for The Connection Course Trauma Informed Certification at Bamboo Garden Yoga!🤩

Imagine bringing yoga into schools, youth centers, shelters and even jails.❤️

Join us in creating a more compassionate and connected world, one breath at a time. Get Trauma Certified. Take The Connection Course this August 9-11.

Feel hopeful for humanity again!❤️

Learn more or sign up for The Connection Course today, the link is in our bio to register.📌

Curious about the growing trend of trauma certification among yoga practitioners?

Join us for an insightful live session with Terri , together with and where they will delve into the question: 'Why are so many yoga folks getting trauma certified?'

Gain a deeper understanding of the intersection between yoga and trauma, and explore the benefits of trauma-informed yoga practices.

Don't miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and engage in a thought-provoking discussion.

Resilience and Kindness: how they ENHANCE each other.

Please join owner and Founder + owner + Founder of live on IG to discuss Resilience and Kindness: how they ENHANCE each other.

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Terri Will be talking with Yoga Journey owner Leslie Glickman and CoCo’s newest Trauma Training Facilitator Nulise Santana about “Why are so many yoga folks getting Trauma Certified “.

Join us for the conversation. Learn what does it mean to be Trauma Informed. How yoga helps heal trauma and build resilience. And, why all yoga teachers could benefit from getting their Trauma Certified.

Get Trauma Certified. Take The Connection Course Jan 26-28 in Boca Raton Fl, at .

Feel hopeful for humanity again!

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Since 2003, we’ve been leading community yoga sessions across Miami. Thousands of kids have gotten yoga, and hundreds have been Trauma Certified.


We want to keep doing this incredible work. Please support for Give Miami Day this Thursday!

Even the smallest donation helps!

You actually CAN do something locally to help!

Give Miami Day - 2023 is live and receiving early donations now.

Support us in having these impactful and inspiring, meaningful moments with youth.

We are on a mission to make Miami mindful through movement, breath work and meditation!

Please help us bring programs BACK to schools and resource our youth.

🔗 below in comments.

When the turmoil feels so freaking big and it’s fundraising season ya take a beat and truly think about the why of it all.

Since 2003 has been supporting youth, recovering adults, post incarcerated teens, homeless, foster youth and more.

20 years.

Personally, each time we step into the role of volunteer the heart remembers connection in it’s simplest forms.

A youth’s giggle.

A stressed teen closing their eyes and breathing deep.

A young adult being seen and not judged.

These small human moments are anchors to what we CAN do.

The outreach work has provided tools for self-regulation in hundreds of programs since 2003.

20 years and well over 35k youth.

Some who grew up with these teachings!

Please help us continue bringing movement, mindfulness, and meditation!

Save the date and make a donation to help us continue this work.

This grassroots organization has empowered thousands beyond we can ever measure as we know the ripple of connection.

Give Miami Day is one of the nation’s biggest 24 hour annual giving events!

An online campaign, where you get to be a philanthropist and share the high vibes.

🗓️Thursday, November 16, invites you to explore supporting community organizations like !

Please share to your story to help us keep the work going on local schools and beyond!

If you’re in the 954 or 305 maybe even the 561 area codes, come hang out with Terri Cooper Space and 305 YOGA for a great practice!

Her: “Well, I just got the results back from the Dr.”, she said.

My reply: “No matter what they are, you are loved and will be supported along the entire journey.”

Her: “The doc said I have Bipolar Disorder and…”

Everything that came after those words faded and details became a muted whisper. I just knew, it was time for me to step up my parenting game again.

Effective communication is crucial when dealing with your child's bipolar disorder, and mindful listening can be a lifeline during these challenging times.

Read the blog for 3 simple tools to creat connection with your youth!

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Hey folks. I know we are all feeling the intensity, pain and separation in the world. 🥲

Some of the conflicts and problems are just so damn big, that it leaves you feeling hopeless.

Your body & brain go into survivor mode, but the thing is, there are several DIFFERENT nervous system responses.

Imagine a world where we see other people’s coping mechanisms and unconscious trauma responses as a sign for us to offer more empathy?

I know it sounds lofty… but not when people are
Certified Trauma Informed!

There’s the big, global, and systemic challenges.

And- there’s the reality that
Personally we have all been through some s .

Resource yourself with the tools needed to creat help
Heal this broken world of ours.

This 15 hour weekend in Miami is a must for anyone who’s primary job is working with other humans, or who is a human living in this world.

The Connection Course will
Leave you feeling HOPEFUL and INSPIRED!

We’ve trained more than 5000 folks, and the reviews are the same…. This curriculum is LIFE CHANGING. And necessary.

Join me Nov 10-12, for a weekend of connection and solutions.

I promise, this experience will give you big personal healing insights💡and will open your 💜 in ways you didn’t even know you needed!

The Connection Course : Nov 10-12, 2023 Join us for this wonderful experience!

We stand for peace.
We stand for peace.
We stand for peace.

Get trauma informed with us!

Connection Coalition, affectionately known as CoCo, is a training organization that certifies service providers, care givers, community members, and organizations to become “Trauma Informed”, in order to create connection and self regulation through mind/body practices. Since Covid, we are actively engaging select markets to once again move back into outreach programs.

You can register with 3 legged dog yoga + strength studio!

Connection Coalition has been a staple to the Miami/Broward/Palm Beach area yoga world since 2003.

We also made our way through the country, to 26 other states, too.

20 years.

There are over 35k young adults in the country who were given access to the teachings of yoga, the ability to self regulate through breath practices and movement that are potentially living each day with these life enhancing tools to help them stay grounded, focused and finding moments of peace within.

You did this.
Your support powered this movement.
Your volunteering, impacted the world.

We aren't done.

November 16th we get to support the community again and empower Connection Coalition to keep going with tools for you to share in schools, shelters and more.
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There are even a couple more options to take this training in South Florida in 2023!
305 Yoga - November 17-19 - Miami
om shanti yoga - December 1-3 - Jupiter
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📸: afterschool program we shared 12 weeks and the final class, the youth shared what they learned with their elders! Their caregivers learned each week what their littles were up to. It was magical!

Did you catch the blog from CoCo:
"From Invisible Scars to Healing: The Path of Post Traumatic Growth"

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PTSD is not what the media makes it look like.

It's more subtle than a shut down and depressed episode, hiding in bed.

It's hyperactivity and sleeplessness.
It's moving with a sense of urgency.

It's an overwhelming moment that is labeled "panic attacks" where you need to rage, cry and let the emotions flow, while your loved ones simply look at you in wonder of why a small situation garners a huge response.

It's an underlying vibration of a need for safety that never comes.

When it’s an activated state, it honestly feels like you will never be safe or “normal” again.

Read the uplifting resolve that CAN actually happen when you have trauma awareness as a foundation for life... link in comments.

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“We are all impacted by stress and trauma. in fact, we are shaped by life’s challenges, and the impact of these challenges.

I think of being trauma informed as being “people informed.” A framework that asks us to consider the impact of trauma and stress on our actions and words asks us to be cognizant of people’s humanity while engaging with them, and values safety and respect as the most important qualities…” Hala Khouri

Become trauma informed and bring more presence, patience and joy to every moment!

The CoCo Training - Trauma Informed Weekend is for anyone and everyone.

Please join me for a transformative weekend of connection and learning to live with more acceptance and hope for humanity.

Be inspired with us!
Aug 18-20
5828 Lonetree Blvd
Rocklin CA The Rising Zone

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This! We hear it all the time from folks who take our Outreach Certification.

So many people suffering from physical and mental symptoms and/or managing a misdiagnosis.

In truth. It boils down to unrecognized and unresolved trauma.

What lights me up tho, is that becoming trauma informed is accessible and available right now.

Each person who endeavors to understand the mind/body, the impacts of unresolved wounds and our capacity for coping can and do get better.

As more people gain this knowledge, as more people heal. It multiplies.

We can make this world a little bit better.

Join us in Sacramento Ca or South Beach Miami Fl for our weekend cert.




Jodi Weiner
Synergy Yoga Center
305 YOGA

The current state of the mental health care system is set up in a way that the brain is a separate organ from the body.

When people have symptoms like anxiety, depression, mood swings, high reactivity, etc we label these as mental health disorders.

This can hurt therapists who are limited in their way to help. As well as consumers who seek treatment and are told they have a disorder that must be managed. In this system nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, thyroid dysfunction etc. are not addressed. Each of these can present the same symptoms as mental health disorders. Doctors are not trained on complex post traumatic stress, which is a major issue.

This leads to massive levels of misdiagnosis. It can also lead to what I believe is unintentional medical gaslighting “oh, that’s in your head” or “oh that’s just anxiety.” These symptoms are *very* real and we need to address them, not deny their existence.

In the psychiatry, 20-60% of consumers are affected by treatment resistance.

If a person is being treated for depression when they’re actually experiencing hypothyroidism and stuck in a functional freeze state, the root issues aren’t being addressed. The symptoms will continue. I don’t see this as a failure on the part of a psychiatrist, this is an overall missing piece in the way our system is designed.

The body is wise and symptoms are clues. They’re not something to manage or to suppress— they are signs the body is out of a balance. They’re signs the body is needing to return to homeostasis.

If you’ve had deeper issues going on/were misdiagnosed please feel free to share your story in the comments

"It’s the tools you use to come back to your regulated state of warmth, possibility and hope for humanity that matter the most."

An excerpt from the newest blog post.

Make sure you read this newest one...it's powerful and incredibly HOPE filled(is this a new word?)!!

Link in comments below~

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Is anyone actually talking about how the "kids are doing".

With schools rewriting history, the school classroom safety drills, post pandemic social impacts...they are not ok!

Neither are you, their parents.
We know, we are you , too!

There is deep profound healing tools available with so many brilliant organizations offering healthy communication, social emotional learning and embodied movement practices to support the growing challenges our youth face.

We hope as you plan your back to school that you have the tools YOU need to support your schools, family and loved ones.

Please consider join us for a weekend of the EXACT information that will help.

We share tools to build healthy coping mechanisms.
We inspire you to practice what you learn.
We empower you to be the change you crave to see, now!

Link to upcoming training weekends is live on our site.
"Get certified".

Thank you Pleasure Point Yoga for welcoming this inspiring weekend again for Santa Cruz County and surrounding areas!

✨"Yoga is a practice, way of life, and healing modality that all bodies can do. It helps to balance mind, body, and spirit and supports the integration of all parts of a person. While cultivating a compassionate and loving inner voice, it allows one to sit with self while noticing, honoring, and processing not only the times of abundance, balance, and flow but the harder, challenging, even darker times of struggle, hardship, pain and suffering. It builds compassion for self, others, and the collective experience both on and off the mat."🙏🏾✨

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📩Connection Coalition

Aug 4-6 | Synergy Yoga Center, Miami, FL

Aug 18-20 | The Rising Zone, Sacramento, CA

Sept 22-24 | Pleasure Point Yoga, Santa Cruz, CA

Oct 6-8 | The OM Spot, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Dec 1-3 | om shanti yoga, Jupiter, FL

After your practice awakens within you a sense to giveback and share it with others but don’t see yourself as a teacher… what do ya do with your burning desire to help others?
You want to volunteer but afar is to say the wrong thing…
You want to share some breathing proactive with your kids but don’t know how to teach it…
You’re a mental health professional and know there is more than talk therapy to share with your clients…
You’re a life/business coach and need more tools to set you apart from the masses and serve your clients with more…
You're a yoga teacher and done w/ the online offerings of asana and “how to’s”… you crave connection to the practice again…
You’re a caseworker and want to give your people some simple tools to help themselves.
This is it.
A weekend of breakthroughs and connection.
Friday night
Saturday (full day)
Sunday (half day)
You leave with knowledge.
You leave with tools and practices.
You leave with a sense of belonging.
You leave with a community of thousands with you.
Please join me in the space of healing tools and the profoundly insightful with and .zone in Sacramento area of
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Did you know both Terri Cooper Space and Jodi Weiner were both featured on the Huffington Post platform?

Below is a clip is from Jodi’s interview by The Give Back Yoga Foundation!

“Is there a standout moment from your work with CoCo?

It was my first volunteer gig. I was kicking off our first six-week program with SOS Foster Village, and I was teaching my first class. The awakening in the eyes of the kids, the trust and opening I saw in their body language and the freedom that touched my heart after just one class, sticks with me, and drives me forward to share that awakening, that confirmation of Oneness. When you finally make eye contact with the kid who walked in with shut-down hunched shoulders too fearful to look up, it’s that moment, that awareness that these kids see you as safe. It’s truly an inspiring sensation that I hope to support others to find. Serving kids is a gift that needs to be felt to fully understand how much joy there can be in service.”

You can read the full article on the CoCo website!

Y'alll - our Blog is back and what a perfect day to share it!

Did you know Connection Coalition, has been bringing you trauma informed practices, training and outreach programs since 2003?!

Our first blog on a series of 6 weeks is here… an excerpt about volunteering!

"Each smile you bring, each word of encouragement you offer, resonates deeply, rippling energy waves of hope and inspiration into the lives of those around us.

Volunteering with Connection Coalition (CoCo) becomes an avenue for embracing the transformative power of empathy. It is an invitation to step into the lives of individuals who have known the depths of challenges & suffering and offer them the judgment-free energy of connection. Through trauma-informed outreach, CoCo creates spaces where true connection unfolds, creating the space and capacity for hope."

In our world, you, sweet volunteers, become conduits of hope.
You embody the unwavering belief in the strength of the human spirit. You as a volunteer with us, breathe life into communities, fostering resilience, and instilling a sense of collective purpose.

You help us collectively to continue creating a tapestry of interconnectedness that spans across borders, cultures, and backgrounds."

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