YYOGA 300 Hour Teacher Training - 25 Hour Module 10: Trauma-Informed

This 25-hour training is designed for yoga teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of trauma-informed yoga and learn to incorporate essential healing techniques into their classes.

Building on the principles developed in Judith Herman’s Trauma and Recovery, Walking the Tiger by Peter Levine, and The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, the training is founded on Niki’s “SENEC” framework—Safety, Empathy, Non-Judgment, Empowerment, and Community.

These five pillars are essential for creating a supportive environment where trauma survivors feel both secure and empowered to heal. Throughout the training, we will explore how to establish Safety in the practice space, ensuring that students feel physically and emotionally comfortable. Empathy will guide us in understanding the unique needs of each student, while Non-Judgment helps create a compassionate and inclusive atmosphere.

Empowerment is a core focus, as we teach students to reconnect with their bodies and reclaim their agency. Finally, we’ll explore how to foster Community by encouraging trust and connection among the cohort, their student networks and the world at large.

The training will be highly collaborative and interactive, with ample opportunities to develop step-by-step sequences and scripts together.

You’ll learn how to create trauma-sensitive sequences for one hour chair yoga, vinyasa and hatha classes, as well as 90 minute restorative and yin classes which contain specific cues for grounding, breathwork, and emotional regulation.

Curriculum

• Gain a foundation in trauma informed Yoga theory and techniques
• Therapeutic application of yoga when working with depression, anxiety, addictions, PTSD and developmental/complex trauma
• Learn how to create trauma-informed classes in yin, restorative, vinyasa, hatha and chair yoga styles.
• Investigate the differences and intersections between Western medical and Yogic perspectives
• Trauma and the brain, polyvagal and attachment theory.
• Dynamics within the therapeutic relationship including the importance of boundaries, self-care, strengths-based and client centered practice

Info Sessions

Join our virtual Info Sessions with Lucy St. John to learn more about our 300 Hour Teacher Training:

• Info Session #1 - Wednesday, July 22nd @ 6:00pm with Lucy St. John
• Info Session #2 - Thursday, Aug 27th @ 6:00pm with Lucy St. John
• Info Session #3 - Tuesday, Sept 15th @ 6:00pm with Lucy St. John

All students are required to earn a Yoga Alliance certified 200 hour teacher training program before auditioning to teach in studio.

Schedule

• Friday, April 2nd 6:00pm-9:00pm (online)
• Saturday, April 3rd 9:00am-5:00pm (in-person)
• Sunday, April 4th 9:00am-5:00pm (in-person)

Online via Zoom

In-person at YYOGA Downtown Flow

Refund Policy

• If YYOGA is required to cancel the program/module for any reason → Tuition Fully Refunded
• If a student has paid in full, but chooses to withdraw before the program/module begins → Payment refunded, minus non-refundable registration fee ($150.00)
• If a student has paid in full and is required to withdraw before 50% of the program/module is complete → 50% of payment refunded, minus non-refundable registration fee ($150.00)
• If a student has paid and is required to withdraw after 50% of the program/module is complete → No payment refunded

Visit our YYOGA Teacher Training website or email our Programming Coordinator at [email protected] for more information!

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