Resilience Embodied: 50 Hour Trauma Informed Yoga and Somatics Teacher Training With Kelly & Lisa D

Name: Resilience Embodied: 50 Hour Trauma Informed Yoga and Somatics Teacher Training With Kelly & Lisa D
Start: 2025-04-05T09:00:00-04:00
Location: CITYOGA School of Yoga and Health

Schedule

Sat, 05 Apr, 2025 at 09:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

CITYOGA School of Yoga and Health | Indianapolis, IN

**Accepting applications for next training in March 2025.
This 50-hour trauma-informed and somatics yoga teacher training is for yoga teachers, educators, mental health professionals or anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge of trauma and somatics and become more skilled teachers and facilitators. Trainees work with evidence-based practices, formulated around the latest neuroscience discoveries. This training provides an integrative framework for understanding how trauma and chronic stress impact the body and mind. Focused on experiential yoga, meditation, mindfulness practices and their ability to reduce trauma and stress symptoms and cultivate a greater sense of well-being. Trainees will be exposed to the vast knowledge base of neuro somatic intelligence and inquiry. Rooted in these somatic understandings, a variety of mind and body techniques will be taught and practiced. The practices grow into a trauma-informed teaching style and methodology rooted in deep understanding and embodiment.
Trauma-informed yoga is taught with an understanding of how chronic stress and trauma affect us all and how sensitive approaches support healing. Somatic techniques are especially helpful because they are done slowly and intentionally and steeped in an awareness of interoception and nervous system integration. Relationship stress, depression, anxiety, behavioral and health issues are often the result of unresolved trauma or chronic stress, and with trauma informed yoga and embodied practice, we can build resilience to feel safe in our own bodies, so we feel stable and regulated and can build healthy relationships with others and ourselves.
70% of the US population has survived some form of trauma which means, trauma is in every room. Whether you work in a yoga studio, online from home or in a recovery center, you are interacting, probably without even knowing it, with someone who has survived trauma. Our duty as yoga teachers is to do no harm and yet even with best intentions, without knowledge of the ways trauma shows up, our actions may be unskillful. This teacher training will ensure you have the guidance and practices you need to reduce harm and create expansive, brave spaces.
What You'll Be Learning:
What does trauma look like in a person
What is trauma informed care
Trauma informed yoga is people informed yoga
Scope of a trauma informed yoga teacher
How to work in trauma impacted spaces
Language sensitivity
How to facilitate skillfully
Trauma informed touch
Holding space in multi-identitied spaces
The impact of trauma in marginalized communities
Polyvagal theory
The autonomic nervous system
Embodied practice
What happens to the mind/body system during and after a traumatic event
The ways in which yoga and somatics can regulate the nervous system
Specific practices for grounding, orienting, and centering
Common trauma triggers and how to avoid them
Ways to reframe your teaching to increase accessibility
Attachment theory and co regulation skills
Room set up and teaching in unconventional yoga spaces
Mindfulness and self care for the trauma informed yoga teacher and why that is important
Resourcing tools for effective self regulation and co regulation
Confidentiality
Self knowledge and awareness of privilege in the yoga room
Striving for Anti-oppressive spaces
Cultural humility and power dynamics
**This training is open to all people, including yoga instructors, educators, mental health professionals etc. Please note that this course does not certify you to teach yoga upon completion. You still need a 200hr training to teach yoga.
Ready to start your 50hr Trauma Informed Yoga and Somatics Teacher Training journey at Cityoga? Follow these steps...
Submit your application for the 50hr Trauma Informed YTT. Please complete with as much detail as possible.
Await patiently for the lead trainers to review your application and get back to you whether you have been accepted into the program or not (acceptance is not guaranteed). You may receive a follow up phone call for a brief interview.
After you have been accepted, you will receive a welcome email with more details about the training and texts required for reading.
Pay your $200 non-refundable deposit to save your spot in class. Click on "Pay Tuition" on the right hand side to pay your deposit.
Pay the remainder of your tuition. Click on "Pay Tuition" button on the right hand side to pay your tuition online.
Cityoga 200hr YTT alumni will get a 10% discount on tuition. You must call or pay at the studio and request discount to be applied to payment.
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