Introduction to facilitation trauma-aware and trauma-informed yoga
Deepen your facilitation skills with trauma-informed principles in this engaging 3-hour workshop. You’ll explore how trauma affects the mind-body connection and how to integrate practices like choice-making and interoception to support your community.
We’ll reflect on creating environments that prioritise safety and empowerment, without needing to know or identify specific trauma histories (it’s not talking about everyone’s trauma…).
Through guided movement practices and discussion, you’ll reflect on how you use these skills to approach facilitating space for others, and how you might like to evolve your practice in the future.
Whether you’re new to trauma-informed yoga, a student or seeking to refine your skills, this session offers an opportunity to deepen the ‘how’ your facilitation can support people who:
Have experienced trauma (including PTSD and CPTSD)
Are experiencing chronic stress
Might find some practices overwhelming due to anxiety, depression or other big life experiences.
EXPECT:
● Learn how trauma affects the body and mind, and how it can show up in yoga classes
● Understand how to create a safer and more empowering space for more students, and reflecting on when you may not be able to
● Explore trauma-informed movement practices that focus on choice and interoception
● Reflect on how you might like to add more trauma-informed practice or thinking into your own practice.
Expect Expansion:
This workshop invites you to explore the intersections of trauma science and embodied facilitation, providing both a theoretical grounding and a practical path to deepening how you hold space for others. By developing your understanding of how trauma and chronic stress show up in the body, you can begin to cultivate the conditions for safer, more empowering environments - without needing to know or identify anyone's specific history.
Who is This For:
If you are curious about how trauma-informed principles can shape the spaces you hold, this workshop offers valuable insights and practical tools for weaving that thinking into your facilitation. This session is suitable for anyone who teaches, moves alongside, or supports others in a yoga or movement context, whether you are just beginning or looking to refine an established practice, benefiting both your own development and your capacity to support a wider range of students.
No previous experience is necessary, only a curiosity about how small, intentional shifts in your facilitation can make a meaningful difference to the people in your space.
Your Guide
Meet Renée
Renée is a trauma-informed yoga facilitator and educator and works to make workplaces kinder and more psychologically safe through ‘Trauma Informed Leadership’ - supporting leaders and organisations with transformational learning on evidence based leadership practices and transformational change.
With training in Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, and Yoga Nidra, Renee facilitates trauma-informed yoga with a special interest in supporting those from disadvantaged backgrounds, complex trauma, accessibility and mental health challenges.
A passionate believer that the world being more trauma-informed makes it better for everyone, Renée is currently completing her Level 2/300 hour teacher training with the Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) program and is continuing her studies in traumatic stress. She’s also a vocal advocate for complex trauma survivors, and mental health, regularly speaking and writing about the importance of trauma-informed practices, better leadership and healthier workplaces.
Please note that refunds are not available for events. You are welcome to sell your ticket if you can’t make it but we do not refund tickets for further change of mind, illness, forgetting the event, no-shows, or any other reason. By purchasing the ticket you agree to this.