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.
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 expert guest speakers on trauma and race, neurobiology and more.
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
Location: Exact Locale TBD. in the Denver Metro Area *We are currently offering this training with option to learn online in a hybrid model.
As we get closer to the date, we will know where this training will take place. Please note, that while it is our intention to have this training in-person, if it makes the most sense for safety, this training will be held online.
Dates:
This training takes place over two weekends.
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Saturday, April 24th, 2021
Sunday, April 25th, 2021
Friday, April 30th, 2021
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
Times: Fridays - 5:00-9:00pm
Saturdays - 9:00-4:00pm
Sundays - 9:00-4:00pm
Pre-Requisites: Already a 200 hour certified yoga teacher
Investment: (you will receive the discounted online pricing even if you attend in-person)
$395 ($180 off) - early bird price if paid in full by March 31st, 2021
$425 ($200 off)- price after March 31st, 2021
Until we decide whether it is in-person or online, sign up now at the online price. If it changes to in-person, you will receive the in-person training at the online price.