Resilience Embodied

50 HourTrauma Informed Yoga

and Somatics Teacher Training

This 50-hour trauma-informed and somatics yoga teacher training is for yoga teachers, educators, mental health professionals or anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge of trauma and somatics and become more skilled teachers and facilitators. Trainees work with evidence-based practices, formulated around the latest neuroscience discoveries. This training provides an integrative framework for understanding how trauma and chronic stress impact the body and mind. Focused on experiential yoga, meditation, mindfulness practices and their ability to reduce trauma and stress symptoms and cultivate a greater sense of well-being. Trainees will be exposed to the vast knowledge base of neuro somatic intelligence and inquiry. Rooted in these somatic understandings, a variety of mind and body techniques will be taught and practiced. The practices grow into a trauma-informed teaching style and methodology rooted in deep understanding and embodiment.

2025 Training Dates

Module One: April 5th &. 6th

Module Two: May 3rd & 4th

Module Three: May 31st & June 1st

What You'll Be Learning:

  • What does trauma look like in a person

  • What is trauma informed care

  • Trauma informed yoga is people informed yoga

  • Scope of a trauma informed yoga teacher

  • How to work in trauma impacted spaces

  • Language sensitivity

  • How to facilitate skillfully

  • Trauma informed touch

  • Holding space in multi-identitied spaces

  • The impact of trauma in marginalized communities

  • Polyvagal theory

  • The autonomic nervous system

  • Embodied practice

    What happens to the mind/body system during and after a traumatic event

  • The ways in which yoga and somatics can regulate the nervous system

  • Specific practices for grounding, orienting, and centering

  • Common trauma triggers and how to avoid them

  • Ways to reframe your teaching to increase accessibility

  • Attachment theory and co regulation skills

  • Room set up and teaching in unconventional yoga spaces

  • Mindfulness and self care for the trauma informed yoga teacher and why that is important

  • Resourcing tools for effective self regulation and co regulation

  • Confidentiality

  • Self knowledge and awareness of privilege in the yoga room

  • Striving for Anti-oppressive spaces

  • Cultural humility and power dynamics

Tuition

$1,100 (including $200 deposit)

10% discount for Cityoga Alumni

**This training is open to all people, including yoga instructors, educators, mental health professionals etc. The Trauma-informed Yoga Teacher Training Program is a supplemental continuing education course for students who have already completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training.