This 20-hour Foundational Trauma Sensitive Yoga workshop will introduce participants to the key concepts, methods of this empirically validated intervention for Complex Trauma - Trauma Centre, Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY).

TCTSY is an evidence-based adjunctive treatment for complex trauma and complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and is the only yoga-based practice endorsed by SAMSHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the USA). TCTSY was developed in collaboration with the Trauma Center Boston beginning in 2003 and is the foundational program of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment within the Justice Resource Institute. TCTSY is utilised with children, youth, and adults throughout the US and in dozens of countries around the world. This weekend training qualifies as the prerequisite for the 300-hour Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga certification program.

Individuals completing this training will also learn how existing in systems of systemic oppression creates and perpetuates trauma, the impacts of trauma on the brain, body, and relationships, and how to develop a trauma-sensitive lens based on these understandings.

This workshop is relevant for:

Mental Health Clinicians, Practitioners, Social Workers and similar who wish to learn how to incorporate elements of TCTSY into their existing clinical work. You did not need to be a yoga teacher.

Yoga Teachers who wish to learn how and what they can do to make their existing yoga classes more trauma-informed.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA

• Overview of Trauma - 'Diagnostic' Frameworks - From PTSD to Complex Trauma

• Trauma Symptoms & Complex Trauma as lived experienced

TRAUMA CENTER TRAUMA SENSITIVE YOGA THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS

• Trauma Theory – Empowerment, Trauma-informed Relationship

• Attachment Theory – Relationship & Agency

• Neurophysiology & Biology of Trauma - How trauma can impact the brain & Intra-personal & Inter-personal relationships

TRAUMA CENTER TRAUMA SENSITIVE YOGA METHODOLOGY & METHODS

• Methods, including creating Safety, the Language of TCTSY, Choice, Interoception, Agency & Empowerment

• Experience TCTSY in your body & Practice Teaching (zoom break out rooms)

• Challenges

• Ethics & Scope of Practice for Yoga Teachers & Clinicians. Adapting a general Yoga Class - from a trauma-informed lens. Introduction to using elements of TCTSY into one’s existing Clinical Therapy Practice

THIS WORKSHOP IS EXPERIENTIAL AND INTERACTIVE

• Small & large group discussion sessions

• Clinical examples

• Experiencing the practice and practice facilitating

• Q & A

BONUS MATERIALS

• Several hours of pre-recorded video records for your personal use to keep

• Additional resources and readings.

• Recorded practices

Workshop Facilitator: Krystyna is a Certified TCTSY Facilitator, Licensed Trainer on the Center for Trauma and Embodiment’s Training Faculty, as well as a supervisor & teacher on the TCTSY Certification Program (300-hour), Certified International Yoga Therapist C-IAYT, IFS therapist & MSc Sociology.

WORKSHOP & BOOKING DETAILS

Note this workshop

VENUE Online Zoom

TIMES

• Friday 1:00pm - 5:00pm

• Saturday 09:00 - 05:00pm

• Sunday 09:00 - 03:30pm

ACCREDITATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Accreditation: You will receive a letter of completion from The Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI, Justice Resource Institute, Boston USA.

CEU (Continuing Education Credits): This workshop is also accredited as ‘Continuing Education’ by the International Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

Note: This program is solely for professional development. The context of this workshop is not intended as an intervention for participants who have experienced trauma. The workshop space is intended for teaching purposes and not treatment. Talking about trauma, even in the context of a professional workshop, can be triggering.

YOGA TEACHERS & LICENSED CLINICIANS

Non-Clinical Yoga Teachers: This workshop is intended to help non-clinical yoga teachers create a more trauma-informed yoga class and spaces. In this workshop, you will be able to integrate elements of TC-TSY into your existing teaching.

Licensed Mental Health Clinician: You will learn how to integrate elements of TCTSY into your existing therapeutic work and scope of practice.

For ethical reasons, this workshop does not qualify non-clinical yoga teachers to offer trauma services, including using the term TCTSY or using the term ´trauma’ in marketing yoga classes.