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Description

Embark on a transformative journey that integrates yoga techniques with trauma-informed practices to heal both emotional and physical wounds.

Learn how to cultivate inner peace, build resilience, and create a safe space for emotional expression through the power of yoga.

Discover how mindful movement can facilitate profound healing and restore a sense of wholeness

Explore emotional and physical trauma from a yogic perspective in this two-day intensive designed for those who work with military veterans, emergency responders, abused children or adults, as well as those who have experienced their own trauma.

Continuing Education Credits:

  • 16 Yoga Alliance CEUs
  • 1.6 ACE CECs

Required Materials   

  • Healing Trauma with Yoga: Go From Surviving to Thriving with Mind-Body Techniques
    Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body by David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper;
  • 2 blocks or eggs
  • blanket

Recommended Materials

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Training Info & Attendance

In-Person

Attend at the location listed for your selected training date. Please wait until you receive confirmation that the training has met minimum enrollment before making non-refundable travel arrangements. Full attendance and participation are required for certification and continuing education credit.

Online

Attend live via Zoom on the dates and times listed. All YogaFit Live Online trainings are scheduled in the Central Time Zone. Please plan to join from a device with a working camera and microphone and from a space where you can participate in movement, discussion, and interactive learning. Zoom access and digital training materials are generally available approximately one week before training. Full attendance and participation are required for certification and continuing education credit. Participants must be visible on camera and actively participate throughout the training. Trainings are not recorded for certification credit.

Self-Study

Complete the training on your own schedule. Course content and digital materials are available through your YogaFit account. Access is available immediately upon paid registration.

Before Your Training

Training Info & Attendance

What to Expect

YogaFit trainings are experiential and interactive. Depending on the course, your training may include movement practices, lecture and discussion, partner or small-group activities, practice teaching, reflection, and other applied learning experiences. Come prepared to participate, ask questions, and learn in community.

When is My Training Confirmed?

Your registration receipt confirms your enrollment, but it does not mean the training has met its minimum enrollment yet. We will notify you once your training is confirmed. Please wait for confirmation before making non-refundable travel arrangements for in-person trainings.

Certification & Continuing Education

Many YogaFit trainings can be applied toward one or more YogaFit certification pathways and/or continuing education requirements. See the individual training description for applicable programs and CE information. Completion of an individual training does not necessarily represent completion of a full YogaFit certification pathway.

Changed, Transfers, and Cancellations:

Plans change—we understand. Review our Terms & Conditions for current cancellation, transfer, credit, attendance, and related registration policies.

We’re Here to Help

Not sure which training is right for you, have a question about your registration, or need help preparing for your training? Our YogaFit team is happy to help. or

Email: info@yogafit.com Call: (858) 310-0007

You'll Learn

  • check icon Comprehensive Training Manual
  • check icon Lecture and Guided Practice
  • check icon Small Group Work
  • check icon Practice Teaching Sessions
  • check icon Private Student Community Access
  • check icon Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)

What's Included

  • check icon The physiological and psychological effects of trauma & PTSD, with focus on the brain and neuroendocrine system
  • check icon How trauma gets stored in the body and why body-based practices work
  • check icon Polyvagal theory, the significance of the vagus nerve in trauma, and the role that yoga plays in its ability to function well
  • check icon The critical components of a trauma-sensitive yoga class
  • check icon Transformational language critical to working with this population
  • check icon Why yoga’s gentle body-based approach is particularly effective in releasing trauma through self-guided movement and heightened inner awareness

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If you’re not happy, retake your course free within 7 days—with a trainer and format of your choice.

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