Weekly embodied practice and training curriculum to explore trauma-inclusive yoga therapy. You’ll strengthen your own mind-body-emotional practice, and gather tools that you can immediately apply to your work and life.
TRAINING SCHEDULE (16 hrs total) :
All training sessions will be virtual online via Zoom. Fridays are live training and yoga practice (equals 10hrs total), and 6hrs of asynchronous materials will be provided throughout the course of the training. Live Friday sessions are recorded and available for 1 week in case you need to miss a class.
LIVE Zoom Sessions on 4 Friday evenings in June : 6/4, 6/11, 6/18 & 6/25
at 5-8pm Eastern
Friday schedule: 5-5:45pm Eastern Presentation, 6-7pm Flow & Restore public yoga class, 7:15-8pm Discussion, Q&A, concept integration (we’ll take two 15min breaks)
(= 10hrs of synchronous learning, recordings available for 1 week)
Weekly asynchronous learning :
Weekly articles, webinars or podcasts to read, watch, and listen
(= approx. 6hrs of asynchronous content at your own pace over the course of the program)
WRITTEN CHECK-IN’S : Over the course of the program, you will have the chance to provide written check-in’s with Alex and peers (via shared Google doc) to explore diverse ways of putting trauma-informed yoga therapy tools into action, and to share the questions and challenges that emerge for you along the way.
COST FOR 16hr TRAINING: Nothing due upon registration, balance due via Venmo or PayPal by 6/3/21. 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.
$325 = pays for you plus supports sliding scale/scholarship for someone else
$285 = regular fee
$225 = reduced fee for need-based financial aid
$125 = optional Racial Equity Scholarship rate for People of Color
COURSE CONTENT : Over the course of 16 hours, you will learn how a trauma-informed approach to yoga postures, sequencing, and verbal cues can help people sense and befriend their body, energy and nervous system, instead of fighting, dissociating and overriding. Explore trauma-informed tools including choice-based yoga teaching, ongoing consent, inclusive instruction, and nervous system responsive posture choice and sequencing. Illuminate tools, concepts, and ways of being that not only support individual healing, but also help shift oppressive systems and culture.
WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR : Yoga teachers (or those interested in becoming yoga teachers). Current or aspiring yoga therapists. Mental health professionals wanting to bring embodiment tools into clinical practice.
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 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 complicated 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: 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 training, it would be most appropriate to describe yourself as someone who has done professional development training in trauma-informed yoga therapy.
Q: Can I count this training towards a yoga therapy certification?
A: Alex has a relationship with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, an accredited Yoga Therapy School. This training counts “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 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.