Angela Cerkevich, RYT
Angela is a full time yoga teacher and doctoral student in George Washington University’s Department of Professional Psychology. She sees clients individually for yoga therapy, and offers workshops in yoga for anxiety, insomnia and trauma. Angela has spent the past six years studying the therapeutic application of yoga and is certified in Life-force yoga for mood management and restorative yoga. She has also trained extensively in yoga nidra/iRESt for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and in trauma-sensitive yoga under the direction of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk at the Trauma Center in Boston.
In an effort to utilize yoga to make a real-world impact in peace, reconciliation and healing from life’s traumas, Angela created the non-governmental organization, “Anahata International,” whose mission is to assist with the self-healing of high risk populations and communities affected by trauma, by teaching strategies for recovery using yoga and meditation. Anahata International has trained yoga teachers in Rwanda to use yoga as a tool for community healing. Angela regularly consults with clinicians eager to incorporate yoga practices into their private practices. She is part of the training faculty of Greenleaf Integrative Strategies, an organization that provides resilience training to governmental agencies whose personnel are deployed to countries in crises and conflict and are exposed to high-risk situations.
She has assisted in the facilitation of yoga nidra for PTSD diagnosed veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the DC Veterans Affairs Hospital. She has also led workshops at the National Institute of Health, Georgetown University’s Psychiatric Dept., American University’s Dept. of International Affairs, the Washington School of Psychiatry and local corporate venues. Prior to her graduate work she regularly taught yoga for recovery at a local women’s shelter and at N street village. She currently offers yoga to the general public at Flow Yoga Center where she helped to establish the therapeutic yoga program.
