Guest Teacher Program
50 Hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
with Jeanine Talento, Brooke Alexander
August 10-16, 2024 at Samahita
About The Retreat
When “teaching” Yoga, we are not just guiding poses.
We are guiding people.
We are guiding nervous systems.
We are guiding complex and unique physiologies.
Each of us has a different orientation of how we perceive our own safety or lack thereof. Through a psycho-somatic understanding of Trauma and the ways it lives in the body, we can embrace the practice of Yoga in a way that permits each individual to have their own experience. Psycho-education around dissociation and disembodiment can give us the tools to not only understand our own physiology but the ways in which the inner worlds and trauma responses of the folks that we work with may differ from our own.
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
- What is Trauma?
- The Nervous System & Polyvagal Theory
- Tools for Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation
- The Story of Yoga Through a Trauma-Informed Lens
- Yamas & Niyamas through a Trauma-Informed Lens
- Considerations for Teaching trauma affected populations
- Teaching Trauma-Informed Meditation and Pranayama
- Teaching a Trauma-Informed Titration Style Practice
- Authenticity, Attachment, & Attunement
- Understanding the nervous system
- Considerations for working with & teaching yoga to trauma survivors
- Understanding symptomology ~ Yoga for Anxiety & Depression
- Depathologizing & destigmatizing mental illness
- Inclusive language
- Resourcing
- Pranayama for trauma
- Understanding triggers
- Leadership tools
- Self-care within community care
- Ceremonies & rituals
