This training is specifically for yoga teachers who want to dive deeper into how to support trauma survivors while they teach.
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.
We will discuss current and ancient world issues that will inform the way you teach and hold space (cultural appropriation, colonization and how to dismantle these in yoga spaces).
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 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 by Michelle Cassandra Johnson: Skill in Action
Location: Buffalo + Sparrow Yoga Collective, 5045 W 1st Ave, Denver, CO 80219
Dates:
This training takes place over two weekends.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Saturday, August 13th, 2022
Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Friday, August 19th, 2022
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
Sunday, August 21st, 2022
Times (MT): Fridays - 5:00-9:00pm (online)
Saturdays - 9:00-4:00pm (in-person)
Sundays - 9:00-4:00pm (in-person)
Pre-Requisites: Already a 200 hour certified yoga teacher
Investment:
$425 ($100 off) - early bird price if paid in full by July 1st, 2022
$525 ($200 off)- price after July 1st, 2022
You will receive a 40hour Trauma-Sensitve Yoga (TSY) Certification upon completion. This training is Yoga Alliance approved and can be used for CEU's.