Trauma Sensitive Yoga Foundations Online

About the Foundations Training

The 20 hour training, 14 hours on zoom or in person and 6 hours of self study, is designed for social workers, mental health clinicians, yoga teachers, educators, and health care professionals etc who are looking to deepen their understanding of the whole-system impact of complex Trauma. The course will emphasize the core components of the practice and process of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga and will provide specific tools to support participants to facilitate trauma sensitive movement and breath practices that are vital to the healing process. Through developing an understanding of complex trauma, attachment theory, and the neuroscience underpinning the TCTSY methodology participants gain skills that support healing from long term trauma. Participants will learn to foster this anti- oppressive approach to healing through a trauma informed lens. Group lecture, practice through movement and breath as well as group practicum will be offered.

This training can also be used as a prerequisite for the 300 hour certificate program.

What Participants are saying about the training

I highly recommend this training. It is informative and will provide simple and actionable steps that can be taken right way to make your yoga classes more empowering and accessible to your students.

This training is comprehensive even though it it only intended to be foundational . You will leave with a better understanding of trauma theory as well as a practical skills and considerations for incorporation trauma sensitive principles into your practice.

I found this to be a very useful training that prepared me to bring TCTSY into my mental health practice. Since I am not a yoga instructor the elements of actually facilitating the forms and movement is what I needed most and it was presented with clarity and detail. We had opportunity to practice and were given resources to continue growing. I thought this was a quality training that used my time well.

The training offered useful interventions to address impact of developmental trauma on clients. You will leave tis raining with a wealth of information and some practice interventions that you can readily apply with your therapy clients.
For anyone wanting to facilitate a trauma informed somatic class this training in invaluable. The combination of theory and how to integrate this into a class was highly beneficial and made sense.

I recommend this training to any therapist who feels stuck utilizing traditional cognitive approaches when working with clients who have a history of complex trauma and are looking to implement more body based / somatic interventions into their work.

I would recommend that anybody wishing to teach yoga at least goes through his course was a way to be more aware and informed of how powerful our words, sequences, and the space we create can be for people. There's so much in this course that I didn't learn in my yoga trainings.

TCTSY is a valuable resource that uses up to date research and theory while maintaining a compassionate approach with students. I am thrilled to be apart of the community that is mindfully guiding people to heal on and off their mats.

What You Will Gain :

Learn the practice and process of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Learn to facilitate trauma sensitive movement and breath practices

Understanding of Complex Trauma, Attachment Theory, and Neuroscience

How to foster an anti oppressive approach through a trauma informed lens

How to work with relational challenges

Practicum offered in small groups

Training Dates

Feb 11th and 12th, 2023

8am PST - 12pm & 2pm - 5pm PST Both days

Two hour lunch with breaks every hour

Registration Open

April 29 & 30, 2023

8am PST - 12pm & 2pm - 5pm PST Both days

Two hour lunch with breaks every hour

Registration Open

Upcoming Foundations Trainings Scheduled :

June 3rd and 4th

Registration not currently open

Workshops for Professionals

Trauma Informed Breath Workshop

For Professionals , Feb 26 12pm - 2pm PST

Learn to facilitate Trauma informed breath work through alternate nostril breathing, counting breath, and breathing with movement. Techniques on how to facilitate along with a large group practice will be offered.

About the Trainer
Keri Sawyer RYT 500 TCTSY Licensed Trainer

Keri Sawyer is a licensed Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) trainer and facilitator with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Boston, MA and is a registered 500 hour Yoga teacher in Alignment Yoga. Her main focus is to provide TCTSY to trauma survivors of all ages, train yoga teachers and health care workers, and to provide research based information and trauma informed treatment practices to the therapeutic world. She oversees the implementation of TCTSY into therapeutic models in clinical and residential treatment programs across the country along with agency trainings and regular consultation for therapists and yoga teachers. Her passion is to provide an opportunity for survivors of trauma to have an authentic experience with a safe and predicable felt sense of their body along with spreading awareness of trauma informed practices.

What participants are saying about the facilitator

Keri is a great presenter and a master teacher. It is evident she cares about her clients and believes deeply in this modality. She is attentive to questions and knowledgeable. Very Enriching.
Keri is extremely knowledgeable and does an excellent job translating her clinical knowledge into a lecture format in a why with is engaging, inspiring and easy to understand even if you do not have a background as a yoga teacher.

Keri was gentle and wise, I had a good sense she knows her stuff but she approached the group and material with a lot of humility. It's been awhile since I learned a lot from a training, so this was overall an excellent training. I am a licensed therapist with 10+ years experience and a back ground in C-PTSD and Schizophrenia. Refreshing.
Keri is great! Awesome presenter and gives very understandable examples on he topics discussed, made things easy to understand. She is patient and also gives awesome resources for continuing.
Keri was always able to answer our questions with grace and attention to detail. I felt like I learned so much from her and would easily attend other trainings she offered.
Keri is kind, warm, clear, approachable, knowledgeable and straight forward. I learned a lot from her training. She models TCTSY in a professional and repeatable way.
Keri was so wonderful through out this weekends session. She leads by example with such a calm demeanor and makes herself available for further explanations as needed. I enjoyed my time working with and learning from her.
Keri is thoughtful, knowledgeable, and present as a TCTSY facilitator. It was a privilege to have the opportunity to train with her, and empowering to explore this new modality with her and learn about her approach to teaching TCTSY
Keri was an expert and hosted the training with great skill. She was organized, patient and supportive.