Holding Space for Your Healing Journey
Past experiences can shape how we see ourselves and influence how easily we are able to meet who we are in the present.
At Bliss Shala, we offer a safe and compassionate space to support your healing and growth.
We trust in the wisdom of your lived experience – your emotions, feelings and sensations and honour whatever is present for you right now.
Through trauma sensitive yoga practices, you are invited to connect with your body and mind in the present moment at your own pace.
The focus is not on changing yourself, but on cultivating awareness, choice and a deeper sense of self acceptance.
You may leave a session feeling different. Not because the world has not changed but something within you may have shifted.
Our Approach: Traditional Yoga at Bliss Shala
At Bliss Shala, our traditional yoga practice is mindful, grounded and rooted in respect for traditional yoga’s origins without rigid performance or pressure.
We emphasise breath, presence and inner listening over achieving external shapes. Our classes are held in small groups with space for choice, rest and nervous system awareness.
This approach to traditional yoga can be especially supportive to offer you regulation and reconnection in a world that may move too fast.
Each practice is informed by the diverse lineages through which Krisa has trained and taught and is shaped by her ongoing work in trauma-sensitive yoga and inner child integration therapy.
From her early grounding in Vinyasa and Ashtanga yoga in Singapore, to her immersion in Traditional Hatha and Iyengar yoga in India, Krisa draws from a wide spectrum of embodied learning. Rather than treating these lineages as separate methods, she weaves them into a unified and holistic approach that honours both structure and adaptability.
These teachings are offered through private sessions and small group classes at Bliss Shala, and are grounded in three core pillars of practice:
Breath and regulation (Pranayama)
Stability and movement (Asana)
Concentration and awareness (Meditation)
Our Trauma-Sensitive Instructors
Prioritising safety, autonomy and empowerment, our instructors are trained in the trauma-sensitive approach to ensure all participants feel comfortable and respected in class by:
- creating a non-judgmental and inclusive space;
- avoiding triggering language, poses or adjustments;
- offering choices in every aspect of the practice, allowing participants to move at their own pace; and
- using grounding techniques to help participants connect with their bodies.
KRISA QIU
Krisa is a certified facilitator in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), a programme developed by the Center for Trauma and Embodiment, United States.
She has been facilitating regular TCTSY programmes for both adults and adolescents, holding spaces that prioritise safety, choice and present-moment awareness.
Her work is also informed by principles of inner child integration therapy, which support gentle self-connection, awareness of early relational patterns to relate to one’s inner experience with greater compassion and clarity.
Krisa understands healing as most sustainable when mental and body-based approaches are woven together.
She is a long-time yoga practitioner and completed her training in traditional Yoga and Ayurveda in India.
“Many times our answers are within. I too, was constantly seeking for external validation, it took me years before I can realise the completeness within myself. My dharma (duty) is to share this work so that others can also discover that they are already complete.”
Professional Training Includes:
| 500 hours | Yoga Alliance Advanced Teacher Training |
| 85 hours | Prenatal and Postnatal Teacher Training |
| 320 hours | Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training |
| 60 hours | Basic Ayurveda Training |
| 48 hours | Sonia Sumar Yoga for Special Child |
| 21 hours | Anatomy Trains in Structure and Function |
| 1.5 years | Tasso Regression HypnoTherapy Diploma |
YVONNE YEO
After experiencing calmness and inner peace from a yoga retreat in Ubud, YY decided to embark on the 200 hours of teacher training to seek more clarity and is now a certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher.
YY believes that yoga is never about achieving a certain pose because it looks aesthetically pleasing, but to practice with the intention of understanding how the pose benefits one therapeutically.
Yoga has taught her many lessons in life:
– To be patient with herself,
– To appreciate her body, including all the limitations,
– To be mindful and present both on and off the mat.
YY hopes to also bring these lessons to her students and help them be both physically and mentally happy, and most importantly, to be at peace.
Professional Training Includes:
| 200 hours | Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training | |
| Yoga And Ayurveda, Yoga Therapy Workshops | ||
RENU B
“Before Alice got into Wonderland she had to fall down a pretty deep hole.”
This is how my relationship with yoga started. I eventually found my wonderland in Yoga. Since then, I have been practicing various yoga styles under different teachers. In search for a deeper connection to yoga, I completed my 500-hour Teacher Training with Don Peers. I am deeply honored for the additional guidance from my most favorite and influential teachers from the past and present who have shared their love and knowledge generously.
After years of having dedicated practice, I became a mama at the age of 39. Approaching pregnancy, being pregnant and arriving on the shores of postnatal island, all seriously changed that yoga practice-both on and off the mat. The gifts of yoga and motherhood are similar, it makes us more present, patient and dig into the deepest parts of ourselves. Yoga has been a source of renewal and strength for me, my rock during the often -unpredictable experience of mothering.
It would be inspiring and rewarding to be on the other side of the mat, to see students discover their own personal breathing space, thinking space, moving space and the being space to be a wholesome being.
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Discover a safe sanctuary for healing and growth at Bliss Shala’s home studio.
Specialising in trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive yoga, our semi-private group classes provide a safe, nonjudgmental and compassionate space for you to reconnect with your body and mind.
Join us to experience the transformative power of your choice and find your calm in our trauma-sensitive yoga classes.
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