YTT 300 - Sensory Awareness + Yoga: The Missing Link for Trauma 

With Barb Leese and Dr. Jackie Ang

Learn how and why yoga and sensory awareness create a trauma-informed approach to yoga practice that promotes healing, fosters agency and empowers you and others you are supporting. Discover how to bring trauma-informed logic, languaging, cueing and sequencing to the instruction/facilitation of a yoga practice within a group and individual setting. Understand the benefits of yoga through the lens of contemporary neuroscience and psychotherapy.

In this training, you will:

• Understand the science of trauma and how it impacts all human beings through the effects it has on our body, mind and nervous system.
  
  

• Experience body-based tools from yoga and somatic therapy to support the effects of stress on the nervous system
  
  

• Learn how to embody a trauma-informed approach in your practice and teaching
  
  

• The relevant applications of yoga to support and resolve daily stress and traumatic stress. 

In-session practicum:

• Group and partner work exploring approach and sequencing effects on nervous system
  
  

• Use of invitational language
  
  

• Personal feedback and guidance
  
  

• Workshop discussion
  
  

Nov 23rd and 24th

This is a prerequisite course to YTT 300 - Sensory Awareness for Prolonged Trauma with Dr. Jackie Ang