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 experience.
Join Alex Bauermeister for an introductory training in trauma-informed YOGA THERAPY for mental and emotional resiliency. Whether you're a yoga teacher looking to hold deeper healing space, or a mental health professional looking to get clients out of their head and into their body, this training will equip you with foundational tools for bridging the mind-body-emotional connection that is essential for healing trauma. Through group yoga therapy classes, demo's, partner exchanges, presentation and discussion, you'll learn the defining elements and benefits of yoga therapy, and gather tools that you can immediately apply to your work and life.
COURSE CONTENT: Over the course of 2 days, we will:
Define trauma-informed yoga therapy, understand how it's different from modern postural yoga instruction, and see it in action through group yoga therapy classes and 1-on-1 sessions.
Distinguish cues and dialogue prompts to take clients beyond physical yoga (asana) instruction to facilitate mind-body-emotional connection, meditative awareness, and radical presence.
Differentiate yoga posture instruction that helps clients sense and befriend their body, energy and nervous system, instead of fighting, dissociating and overriding.
Explore hands-on bodywork coupled with 1-on-1 dialogue to practice ongoing consent, trauma-responsiveness, 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.
PREREQUISITES: 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. To be best prepared for this training, here is some recommended exposure:
Read about trauma and the nervous system, such as books on this list: www.nerdycreator.com/bookclub/trauma-books/.
Understand how trauma and healing is bound up in disrupting oppressive cultural and social systems, such as this article: www.medium.com/@ginwright/the-future-of-healing-shifting-from-trauma-informed-care-to-healing-centered-engagement-634f557ce69c
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 @the.holistic.psychologist, @integrate_network, @susannabarkataki, @matthewlicata, #accessibleyoga and #traumainformed.
TRAINING HOURS & COST: 9am - 6pm, Saturday and Sunday. Lunch break 1 - 2pm. Training costs $285 and totals 16 contact hours. In support of diversifying yoga leadership, people of color registering for this training can use discount code diverseleadership and receive 25% off. For financial aid application request, please email alex@intrayogatherapy.com.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: Alex Bauermeister is an Approved Professional Development Provider with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). Yoga Therapy certification is overseen by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and comprises a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (from any Yoga Alliance-approved school) plus 800 hours of training with an accredited Yoga Therapy school. This specialty training with Alex Bauermeister is recognized as 16 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 certification. Previously certified Yoga Therapists are able to use these 16 hours as continuing education credits with IAYT.
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 and Coolidge Yoga Brookline. 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.