This training is specifically for yoga teachers who want to dive deeper into how to support trauma survivors while they teach.
Most of us have been through trauma already at some point in our lives. This means most of your yoga students in the room or online with you have experienced trauma. Right now, we are collectively moving through the shared experience of a pandemic, which can resurface old traumatic memories and/or create traumatic stress within the body.
You can take care of your students with greater integrity and sensitivity by learning all about how trauma affects the body and the brain, as well as how yoga can help release it. Now more than ever, yoga students need instructors who are trauma-informed and aware! Please consider joining us so you can provide more safety for your students who are either practicing at home with you, or will be in-person at some point in the future.
What you will learn:
How to cue your class through a trauma-informed lens.
How to hold space for students who experience triggers, as well as how to help them regulate from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system.
How trauma is trapped in the body and how yoga can help to move it out.
How the brain works in trauma and how yoga can help restore its communication with the body.
The neurobiology of a traumatized brain and how the power of neuroplasticity works toward freedom and empowerment.
How to self-regulate your nervous system and assist others to do the same through techniques, poses, breath and mind-body practices.
How to support students with various types of trauma including, but not limited to: ptsd, sexual assault/abuse, domestic abuse, marginalization, complex, developmental, vicarious trauma and bullying.
You will learn the latest and most relevant research and theories in trauma that will give you the confidence to teach from a place of being fully informed and equipped to teach to trauma survivors.
We will discuss current and ancient world issues that will inform the way you teach and hold space (cultural appropriation, colonization and how to dismantle these in yoga spaces).
Through practice teaching, you will be able to experience how to curb your verbiage, body language and sensitivities to hold space for anyone who walks into your classroom.
Valuable lessons and guidance through reading homework from the bodies of work by Bessel Van Der Kolk: The Body Keeps The Score and by Michelle Cassandra Johnson: Skill in Action
You will receive a 40-hour Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TSY) Certificate upon completion. Credit can be applied to YA CEU.
Led by Rachel Stroud, Co-founder and Owner of Buffalo + Sparrow Yoga Collective. Rachel is a E-RYT® 500, YACEP® with a background in Sociology and Psychology. She has been training and teaching TSY for 10 years.
40 Hour TSY Training
Location: Virtual via ZOOM
Dates: Jan. 19th - 21st & jan. 26th-28th of 2024
This training takes place over two weekends.
Times (MT): Fridays - 5:00-9:00pm (online only)
Saturdays - 9:00am-4:00pm (hybrid)
Sundays - 9:00am-4:00pm (hybrid)
Pre-Requisites: Already a 200 hour certified yoga teacher
Investment: Early bird - $425 If paid before Dec.5th 2023
Full Price - $525
Scholarship Opportunities
We want to make trauma-sensitive yoga available to all. Our mission is to support students with this style of yoga AND support more teachers gaining more awareness. We also know that many students will feel safer with folks with similar lived experiences. So we offer a few scholarships to each of our trainings for POC yoga teachers and LGBTQ+ yoga teachers.
