This training offers an embodied exploration of how trauma impacts all human beings, and the role of sensory awareness and body-based interventions in supporting its resolution. Trauma and its aftereffects will be explored through the lens of yoga and Ayurveda, modern neuroscience, somatic therapy and sensorimotor psychology. 

In this module you will: 

• Understand how the experience of daily stress and traumatic events can impact the nervous system, leading to chronic physical, mental and energetic patterns 
  
  
• Discover how to utilize yoga asana, somatic techniques, breath/pranayama + meditative techniques to balance symptoms of over-activation (excess rajas) and freeze/shut-down (excess tamas) 
  
  
• Deepen your ability to support yourself in states of excess sympathetic (hyperarousal) and parasympathetic (hypoarousal) activity in ways that expand resilience
   
• Learn how to utilize trauma-informed language, anchoring and presence-ing to support and address trauma responses when they arise in self, group and individual settings. 
  

This is not a certification teaching you how to heal trauma (This is best approached in a holistic, multi-disciplinary, requiring different scopes of practice). Rather, you will come to recognize how the aftereffects of trauma can show up in our everyday responses and the ways that yoga, somatic and one’s own embodied presence can be a resource to a challenged nervous system. 

This training is particularly relevant for yoga instructors, healing arts professionals and facilitators, who will meet trauma in both group and individual settings and will cover approaches that can be applied to self-guidance, one-on-one settings and group environments. 

Saturday February 1st 12:30pm - 6:30pm 

Sunday February 2nd 21:30pm - 6pm

Saturday February 22nd 21:30pm - 6:30pm 

Sunday February 23rd 12:30pm - 6pm