Workshop
Amplifying the Healing Power of Yoga Through Trauma-Informed Principles
In this eight hour experiential module we will cover key concepts of trauma, ACES, toxic stress, RBTS and resilience and their impact on the body/mind; the potential that yoga has to impact the nervous system; trauma-informed principles for guiding teaching choices and room set up with a heightened awareness of race-based stress and trauma; concrete tactics for promoting safety in the practice and tools for supporting students in activated states. You will also experience a trauma informed yoga class.
These past two years have had a profound impact on us all: the collective trauma of the pandemic and the growing awareness of the epidemic of racialized trauma. Even before 2019, in the United States, more than two in five women (43.6%) and almost one in four men (24.8%) have experienced some form of contact sexual violence during their lifetime (BARCC). Race- Based Traumatic Stress (RBTS) is ubiquitous. https://www.mhanational.org/racial-trauma
What does this mean for your teaching, assisting, and personal practice? Research indicates that practices such as yoga can rewire the stress responses of practitioners. Telling your students that the yoga space is a “Safe Space" or offering a choice to opt out of assists is not enough to truly foster the conditions necessary for neurological/somatic transformation through yoga, particularly for People of Color. By applying an intentional, trauma-responsive framework to our teaching choices and our practice spaces we can not only mitigate the stress response in students, but also amplify the opportunity for students to feel a new reference point for belonging, and internal safety, which clears the path to deeper self inquiry, improved body awareness and greater capacity for resilience/PTG.
This is not a certification training, it is an introduction to theory and practice of trauma informed yoga.
Facilitators:
Emily Peterson- Emily Peterson- Emily is a Creator/Consultant at Mandela Yoga Project, a CYT 500, and a Reiki Master Teacher. She is a facilitator and formerly the lead trainer of TIMBo (Trauma Responsive Innovations for Mind/Body) and has led trainings in the United States, Haiti, Kenya, and Rwanda. In addition, Emily has completed several Race and Equity trainings.
Lynn Eikenberry MPH is a YRT 200. She is a certified facilitator of TIMBo, a woman-focused trauma-resolution mind-body methodology, working with marginalized women in institutional settings in Boston as well as Rwanda, Kenya and Haiti. In addition she has completed Judith Lasater’s Rest and Renew Restorative Yoga teacher training, holds certifications of completion in Accessible Yoga School’s Race & Equity in Yoga: Disruption as Practice; Yoga Medicine’s Trauma-Informed Yoga; and Collective Resilience’s Trauma Sensitive Yoga and Somatics introductory course.
Date: Jan 8th 2022 12-4pm & Jan 9th 2022 12-4pm
Pricing:
Equity: Inquire via email to info@missionhillyoga.com
Standard: $155.00
Impact: $200.00
All Sales are final and no refunds or returns.
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