Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Online Course

Coming soon! The online recorded version of this course will be available on May1, 2023. 
If you are a yoga teacher, yoga student or a health practitioner interested in the powers of Yoga & Ayurveda in trauma intervention and healing, this course is for you.
As a Yoga teacher you must know how to work with people with a history of trauma in a group yoga class or 1:1 settings. It is not only your moral responsibility but it will also help you grow personally and professionally. Your students will benefit tremendously from this.

Most of us have or will encounter acute trauma at some point in our lives. Our state of overwhelm and inability to coop with the demands of life events result in smaller or bigger traumas.

Here is some of the eye-opening stats on chronic & complex trauma in the US:

• 1 in 5 Americans were sexually molested as a child
• 1 in 4 Americans were beaten by a parent with marks being left on their body
• 1 in 3 couples engage in physical violence
• 25% of the population grew up with alcoholic relatives
• 1 in 8 have witnessed their mother being hit or beaten
  (Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

TOPICS INCLUDED

• Understanding the origins of trauma: mental & physical
• Trauma effect on physiology & mind Therapeutic Yoga for trauma recovery
• Embodied & somatic learning & re-patterning
• Methodology of teaching embodied yoga
• Ayurvedic psychology: Ayurvedic genotypes and trauma recovery
• Ayurvedic approach in yoga
• Application of Polyvagal Theory in Yoga Therapy
• Vagus nerve stimulation for threat response
• Yogic & other wellness methods to regulate physiology & heal trauma
• Nervous system flexibility & Heart-Rate Variability in trauma intervention
• Therapeutic yoga at home. The building blocks of a life-changing daily practice.
• The window of tolerance, titration
• The Goldilocks Swadyaya principle
• Trauma, resilience and anti-fragility
• The simplicity principle: Less is more
• Discover the language of trauma-sensitive yoga
• Postures, movement, connective tissue and health
• Application of ‘Kaizen’ & other life-changing principles in the process of healing & more…

The course consists of a serious of recorded sessions with detailed explanation and practical examples. It also includes optional  suggested reading, research and homework assignments.