This training is specifically for yoga teachers who want to dive deeper into how to support trauma survivors while they teach. Led by Buffalo + Sparrow Co-founder and Owner, Rachel Stroud, who holds her E-RYT® 500, YACEP® and has steeped training in TSY, Sociology, Psychology. Guest Speakers will be announced soon!

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.

• Valuable lessons and guidance through reading homework.

Location: Zoom & Buffalo + Sparrow Yoga Collective, 441 Wadsworth Blvd, Suite 122, Lakewood, CO 80226

Dates:

This training takes place over two weekends.

Friday, May 16th, 2025
Saturday, May 17th, 2025
Sunday, May 18th, 2025

Friday, May 30th, 2025
Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Sunday, June 1st, 2025

Times (MT): Fridays - 5:00-7:00pm (online only)

Saturdays - 9:00-4:00pm (in-person & online)

Sundays - 9:00-4:00pm (in-person & online)

Pre-Requisites: Already a 200 hour certified yoga teacher

Investment: $600 (early bird at $499 until Febraury 15th)

Payment plans available.