Teaching Trauma-Informed Ayurveda and Yoga
About this Event
This workshop is part of Edge Yoga School’s Trauma-Informed Series: Teaching Trauma-Informed Yoga to Special Populations.
Ayurveda offers yoga teachers a rich framework for exploring patterns, rhythm, environment, sensory experience, and individualized support.
A trauma-informed approach helps teachers use these principles without rigidly labeling students, making assumptions, diagnosing, or telling someone who they are.
This practical workshop explores how Ayurvedic concepts can support more thoughtful yoga teaching through observation, curiosity, supportive language, meaningful choice, and respect for the student’s autonomy.
Tea provides an approachable example of how rhythm, environment, sensory experience, and personal preference can be explored without prescribing a single correct choice.
Participants will consider how the experience of selecting, preparing, and enjoying tea can invite greater awareness while preserving individual agency.
Each workshop in the Trauma-Informed Series stands on its own. Participants do not need to attend all three sessions.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Observation without judgment
- Curiosity rather than diagnosis
- Exploring rhythm, environment, and individual needs
- Avoiding rigid dosha labels
- Using supportive and invitational language
- Offering choices based on observation
- Adapting pacing, sequencing, and atmosphere
- Using tea as a sensory and reflective teaching tool
- Respecting personal preference and agency
- Applying Ayurvedic principles within a yoga teacher’s scope
Trauma-informed Ayurveda invites teachers to notice patterns while remaining flexible, open, and respectful. The goal is not to define the student or prescribe the correct choice. The goal is to create conditions that support awareness, curiosity, balance, and agency.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Explore Ayurvedic patterns without rigidly labeling students
- Use observation and curiosity within an appropriate teaching scope
- Offer supportive choices based on environment and individual needs
- Adapt pacing, sequencing, and atmosphere
- Use tea as a sensory and reflective teaching tool
- Preserve student autonomy while introducing Ayurvedic principles
A REAL-WORLD AYURVEDIC YOGA OFFERING
Participants will examine this completed Eventbrite listing for Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training: Trauma-Informed as a repeatable professional model.
- The workshop demonstrates how trauma-informed principles can be carried through an entire offering, including:
- A clear title and subtitle
- A participant-centered training description
- Supportive and inclusive language
- Learning objectives
- A structured agenda
- Frequently asked questions
- Professional photography and video
- A tea-based Ayurvedic experience
- Registration information
- Continuing education details
- A pathway into advanced yoga teacher training
The example demonstrates how yoga teachers can develop and present Ayurvedic classes, tea experiences, workshops, specialty trainings, and continuing education offerings.
YOGA ALLIANCE CONTINUING EDUCATION
Participants who complete this workshop will receive a Yoga Alliance YACEP continuing education certificate from Edge Yoga School.
This workshop can help Registered Yoga Teachers work toward the training hours required during each Yoga Alliance continuing education cycle.
CONTINUE TOWARD RYT 500
This workshop introduces the trauma-informed Ayurvedic framework used throughout Edge Yoga School’s complete Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training: Trauma-Informed.
Participants ready to continue beyond this introductory session may enroll in the complete 500-hour RYS program. No previous yoga teacher training is required to enter the complete RYS 500 program. Eligible graduates may apply to Yoga Alliance for the RYT 500 credential.
GOOD TO KNOW
Age information: This is a professional-development workshop for yoga teachers and other adult learners.
Ayurveda experience: No previous Ayurveda education is required.
Tea: Tea is used as a sensory and reflective teaching tool. Participation is invitational.
Arrival: Arrival instructions will be added when the venue is confirmed.
Parking: Parking information will be added with the venue details.
Accessibility: Contact Edge Yoga School through Eventbrite with accessibility questions or accommodation requests.
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Michelle Rae Sobi
Michelle Rae Sobi is the founder of Edge Yoga School and an educator specializing in trauma-informed yoga, functional anatomy, Ayurveda, and teaching special populations. She holds E-RYT 500, RPYT, RCYT, and YACEP credentials through Yoga Alliance.
Agenda
Welcome and introduction to trauma-informed Ayurveda
Observation, curiosity, and individual needs
Moving beyond rigid dosha labels
Rhythm, environment, pacing, and sensory experience
Supportive language and meaningful choice
Tea as a reflective teaching tool
Building a real-world Ayurvedic yoga offering
Continuing education and the pathway toward RYT 500
Questions and closing reflection
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 117.09
