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Bliss Yoga Center's owner, Jennifer Kelley, is dedicated to empowering survivors of Domestic Violence.  Bliss Yoga Center is a Spiritual Yoga Studio that provides Yoga and Wellness services to survivors, and their support system free of charge.  Jen teaches a Yoga Class once a week at the local Domestic Violence shelter.  Providing Yoga to survivors, volunteers and staff.  She extends this offering to survivors, and anyone who facilitates the healing process of the survivors at her studio as well.  The symptoms of PTSD experienced by the women in counseling can be severe and Yoga is a proven therapy.  Yoga helped Jen in her healing process and she believes it can be used to successfully aid in healing and empowerment of all who embrace this ancient spiritual practice.  Part of Jen's mission is to gift each survivor in the program with her own Yoga mat.  Something of her own that she can go to in those moments of emotional crisis that can hit randomly and hard during the first months of healing.  A mat is a place of sanctuary to those living in the shelter, a place of last resort for women who have been battered and broken down who have no place else to be safe from harm.  A Yoga mat is investment, a statement that someone cares and believes in her ability to heal, recover, and rise again like a phoenix from the ashes of her past.