Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: A Workshop for Yoga Teachers

For certified yoga teachers.

Research done at the Justice Resource Institute’s Trauma Center is establishing empirically that yoga may be helpful for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A groundbreaking study funded by the National Institute of Health, conducted from 2009–2011, showed that trauma-sensitive yoga reduced PTSD symptomology to a clinically significant degree.

The Trauma Center Yoga Program team has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students from survivors of rape and childhood incest to Iraq War veterans. The team now offers a 40-hour workshop for yoga teachers in which you learn

• The latest trauma theories and neurophysiology
• Chair and mat postures for a wide range of physical abilities
• How to modify existing yoga classes to make them trauma-sensitive
• What you need to start a trauma-sensitive class.

David Emerson is joined by members of the Trauma Center Yoga Program team and welcomes Bessel van der Kolk for a special presentation at one of the program sessions.

Required reading and writing, as well as additional program information, can be found here.

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