TRAUMA INFORMED training for yoga teachers
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What is it?
Are you interested in bringing a more trauma informed approach to your teaching or yoga spaces? Join the movement to make every yoga teacher trauma-informed whether working in a yoga studio or as preparation for working in the community with underserved groups.
This training will run online over 5 weeks and will include a combination of self directed learning and live sessions. There will be a focus on reflective practice, practical skills and interactive discussion.
What will I learn?
This course will allow you to understand the principles, theory and practice of bringing a more trauma informed approach to your teaching and allow you to consider how yoga can be a practice that can offer people the opportunity to be empowered in their choices. The course will be underpinned and delivered with a social justice lens and will incorporate study of systemic oppression, trauma theory, neuroscience and how we can create safer yoga spaces by developing awareness and understanding of trauma informed practice.
What you will not learn?
This training does not provide you with a yoga therapy or trauma therapy certificate or give you the necessary skills to use this title. This will be covered in more detail in the course
This course is also not intended to be therapeutic for those who have experienced trauma or to offer space for people to work through their own trauma. Some content may be triggering for some individuals.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you don't find what you're looking for here, please feel free to submit a contact form to let us know your concern. We are a small team so please allow us up to a week to reply.
The investment for this training is 3 monthly payments of £200, a total of £600.
There are a small number of scholarships available, please contact lorraine@edinburghcommunityyoga.co.uk to learn more.
100% of this course is online. The course will take the following format:
- 20 live hours via Zoom (4hrs each Saturday)
- 30 hours of coursework (6hrs self paced per week)
We will be offering 3 x 50% scholarship places for this training that will be available on application:
- 1 will be an open scholarship place for anyone who would like to apply
- 1 will be specifically open to people who identify as LGBTQI+
- 1 will be specifically open to people from a BAME background
We welcome all applications, please email:
lorraine@edinburghcommunityyoga
explaining why you would like to do the training and how the scholarship place would benefit you.
On the Podcast
Start with Episode 1 of Amy's discussion around Power Dynamics with Lorraine Close and Kirkness, then get stuck into Episode 2 where our Mysore Director, Emma Isokivi, rounds out the conversation about how we regulate the dynamics in our practice community for continued safety and empowerment.
