Everyone is affected by trauma. By using a trauma-sensitive lens, this yoga teacher training provides you with the tools to meet your students where they are and with empathy for their lived experiences. ✨
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.
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.
You will learn from an expert guest speaker who is one of the best in their field.
Valuable lessons and guidance through reading homework from the bodies of work by Bessel Van Der Kolk: The Body Keeps The Score and Peter Levine: Waking The Tiger