Did you know that nearly 70 percent of adults will have experienced trauma at least once in their lives?

 

If you work with people in any capacity, particularly in healing, health and wellness, developing a trauma informed lens is crucial.

 

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is the first yoga-based, empirically validated clinical intervention for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  A program of Center for Trauma and Embodiment, it is the only yoga model of its kind to have met the criteria for inclusion in the former US-based National Registry of Evidenced-based Programs and Policies (NREPP) database published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

 

This 20-hour foundational training (16 hours synchronous learning and 4 hours of self-study) will emphasize the core components of the practice of trauma-sensitive yoga, and how those fundamental elements relate to any anti-oppressive and trauma-informed work. 

 

Content will include:

• The underpinnings of TCTSY (trauma Theory, attachment theory and neuroscience) (Interoceptive Theory)

• The neurophysiology & biology of stress and trauma and how they impact the lived experience;

• The importance of understanding power, oppression, & intersectionality;

• TCTSY practice and practice facilitating TCTSY;

• Key elements of TCTSY methodology;

• An overview of the research on TCTSY;

• Plenty of time for time for discussion and reflection

 

Participants may include, but are not limited to, yoga instructors, social workers, mental health clinicians, educators, activists, somatic practitioners and healers, or other health care professionals, as its applications can extend far beyond the yoga mat.

 

Experiential in design, participants will gain specific tools to both practice and facilitate trauma-sensitive movement and breath practices vital to the healing process of complex trauma.  This training is intended to support participants in expanding their current clinical or movement-based practice to incorporate some of the TCTSY methodology, focusing on movements and language that actively share power and agency with practitioners.

  

While the Foundational Training does not qualify participants to facilitate TCTSY, it does provide the foundations for making your current scope of practice (clinical/movement based) more trauma-informed.
 

This training is the primary prerequisite to CFTE’s 300-hour TCTSY Certification Program, however, there are no prerequisites to attend this training.

 

This training is approved for 20 CEs with Yoga Alliance, 18 CEs with IAYT, and 4 self-care CEs from NCBTMB. 

 

*No component of this training will be recorded*

NEW Training in Hoboken N.J. coming in January 2025.  Details to be posted shortly.

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