Join a cohort of amazing individuals to study Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy in this engaging online training. You'll learn the defining elements, benefits, and applications of yoga therapy, and gather tools that you can immediately apply to your work and life.
WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR :
Current & aspiring yoga teachers
Current & aspiring yoga therapists
Mental health professionals
Someone in a career transition or complimentary profession
COURSE CONTENT : Over the course of 50 hours, you will …
Build out your trauma-informed yoga therapy toolbox, understand how yoga therapy is different from modern postural yoga instruction, and see it in action through group yoga therapy classes and 1-on-1 sessions.
Practice verbal skills, cues, and dialogue prompts to take clients beyond physical yoga (asana) instruction to facilitate mind-body-emotional connection, meditative awareness, and radical presence.
Facilitate yoga posture choices, sequencing, and transitions that help clients sense and befriend their body, energy and nervous system, instead of fighting, dissociating and overriding.
Explore trauma-informed tools to practice collaborative facilitation, radical ongoing consent, trauma-inclusive instruction, and nervous system soothing.
Illuminate tools, concepts, and ways of being that not only support personal healing, but also help shift oppressive systems and culture.
TRAINING SCHEDULE (50 hrs) :
All training sessions will be virtual online via Zoom. They are recorded and available for 2 weeks in case you need to miss a live session.
Weekend 1 :
Saturday 1/30 at 10-6pm ET
Sunday 1/31 at 2-5pm ET
Weekend 2 :
Friday 2/12 at 5-8pm ET
Saturday 2/13 at 10-6pm ET
Weekend 3 :
Saturday 2/27 at 10-6pm ET
Sunday 2/28 at 2-5pm ET
Weekend 4 :
Friday 3/12 at 5-8pm ET
Saturday 3/13 at 10-6pm ET
Weekend 5 :
Saturday 3/27 at 10-6pm ET
Sunday 3/28 at 2-5pm ET
BONUS CLASSES: When you register by 1/3/21 at 1pm Eastern, you’ll get free enrollment in Alex’s January Flow & Restore Class Series! It’s called Embodied Self Care, every Sunday in January 2-3:30pm Eastern (recording available for 1 week). The last class of the series, held on 1/31, is included in the training for all.
PRACTICUM (5+ hrs) : The practicum is a chance to put your skills into practice between training weekends. The practicum activities will be self-designed so that you can meet yourself where you’re at, adjusting to your skill level, professional identity, and energetic capacity. For example: Experienced yoga teachers can use this to offer private therapeutic yoga sessions, or to integrate yoga therapy tools into ongoing group asana classes. New yoga teachers can use this to do practice teaching. Therapists can use the practicum to bring embodiment tools into their client sessions. Those who are newer to client work might exchange practice sessions with fellow trainees. Alex and your peers will help you refine your individualized practicum goals.
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS (approx. 5 hrs) : Over the course of the program, you will provide 5 written assignments to demonstrate how you are putting yoga therapy tools into action, personally and professionally. The written assignments will also serve as a status update on your practicum activities and learning process. They will be about one to two pages each, and Alex will provide specific prompts to help you focus your reflection. DUE DATES for written reflections: 2/10, 2/25, 3/10, 3/25, and 4/8
COST :
$100 deposit due upon registration, balance due by 1/30/21 or mutually designed payment plan.
Sliding scale for all: $750 - $1,500
Sliding scale + scholarship if you identify as Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color: $250 - $1,500
For financial questions, please email alex@intrayogatherapy.com. Note: To ensure that this training is the best possible fit for you, your registration will be reviewed and approved by Alex. If Alex determines it’s not the right fit, you will be issued a full refund.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: Alex Bauermeister is an Approved Professional Development Provider with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). Because yoga therapy extends beyond the scope of practice overseen by Yoga Alliance, this training can unfortunately not be applied for Yoga Alliance CEU’s. This specialty training with Alex Bauermeister is recognized as 50 hours of elective credits with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, an IAYT-accredited school, should students decide to continue on with that program in pursuit of 1000-hour Yoga Therapy Certification (accreditation is overseen by International Association of Yoga Therapists, IAYT). Previously certified Yoga Therapists are able to use these 50 hours as continuing education credits with IAYT.
PREREQUISITES: To ensure that this training is the best possible fit for you, your registration will be reviewed and approved by Alex. If Alex determines it’s not the right fit, you will be issued a full refund. No previous experience of yoga therapy required, but please come with some experience of yoga. This training is ideal for current and aspiring yoga teachers, as well as therapists. For students of yoga who wish to take this training to deepen their own practice, please inquire with alex@intrayogatherapy.com.
PRE-WORK: To be best prepared for this training, here is some recommended exposure:
Listen to podcasts about embodied approaches to healing trauma, like in the Trauma Therapist Podcast
Read about trauma and the nervous system, such Embodied Healing, Buddha’s Brain, My Grandmother’s Hands, or books on this list.
Understand how trauma and healing is bound up in disrupting oppressive cultural and social systems, such as this article.
Educate yourself about the sociocultural evolution of yoga through South Asian, Desi and Indian-American perspectives, such as www.yogaisdeadpodcast.com and www.susannabarkataki.com.
Follow related topics on social media, such as #accessibleyoga and #traumainformed.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: I haven’t done a yoga teacher training and I’ve never taught yoga poses before. Is this training appropriate for me?
A: That’s okay! I’ll work with you to meet you at your skill level.
Q: Do the practicum and written assignments count towards training hours?
A: Sure, you can count them for yourself! But because the practicum and written assignments are considered non-contact hours, they are not included in the 50 contact hours of the training. Also, each person takes a different amount of time with written assignments and practicum activities.
Q: Will the tools learned in this training translate to in-person yoga therapy work, and a post-Covid world?
A: Yes, the skills we will practice in this training translate to real-life, face-to-face work. We don’t get to explore touch and hands-on bodywork in this virtual training, but you’ll learn to support clients virtually in a way to helps them feel held, seen, and supported.
Q: Why do you use marketing images of touch?
A: Ugh, I know. I used images that included touch because that’s the best way I can capture the essence of yoga therapy in a felt sense. Thanks for humoring me.
Q: After this training, can I call myself a yoga therapist? Therapeutic Yoga Teacher? Something else?
A: The term “yoga therapist” is used by those who have completed a 1000-hour Yoga Therapy Certification with a school that is accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. After this 50-hour training, it would be most appropriate to describe yourself as a therapeutic yoga teacher, or someone trained in therapeutic yoga, or someone who has done professional development training in yoga therapy.
Q: Can I count this 50-hour training towards a yoga therapy certification?
A: Alex has a relationship with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, an accredited Yoga Therapy School. This training counts as 50 hours of “elective” credits towards their certification program. If you have another school in mind for continued training, you can always ask them if they would accept these 50 hours as elective credit.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THIS TRAINING: Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy Training with Alex Bauermeister will fundamentally change how you show up in the world. You'll learn to listen, heal, and connect differently. You'll learn intuitive fluidity in working with bodies, hearts, minds, and nervous systems. You'll come to embody the qualities that support healing : empowerment, radical acceptance, transformational inquiry, trauma literacy, and skillful facilitation of therapeutic yoga. Whether you're a yoga teacher looking to hold deeper healing space, a mental health professional looking to get clients out of their head and into their body, or bridging yoga with other work, this training will help you bridge the mind-body-emotional connection that is essential for healing trauma.
ABOUT YOUR TRAINER: Alex Bauermeister is a certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapy (C-IAYT). Her own training background includes Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Soulful Yoga Therapy, Kripalu School of Yoga, Susanna Barkataki's Integrating Equity Program, Trauma-Responsive Innovations for Mind-Body Program (TIMBo), Prana Power Yoga, and Interaction Institute for Social Change. She teaches public classes and workshops at JP Centre Yoga. Intra Yoga Therapy is her private yoga therapy practice in Roslindale, where she specializes in helping clients through their trauma, anxiety and depression. Learn more about Alex at www.intrayogatherapy.com.