Welcome to Atlas Yoga Studio and School and the Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training. Our goal in creating this course is to bring educational tools and pedagogical perspective to the need for yoga teachers to be aware of and have tools that can assist in supporting yoga students who come into our classes and clinical environments with previous trauma, those who are experiencing trauma and are looking to be supported with the tools and technology of yoga. This course is designed to educate and hopefully to future proof our clients with tools that can help to manage future traumatic experiences as well as recognize and heal from past trauma. 

We acknowledge that trauma is an individual, subjective experience that is not in our scope of practice to measure or diagnose. In this course we hope to equip yoga teachers, or other movement and meditative based practitioners with the tools to recognize, hold space for, and process day to day issues related to past, present and future trauma for ourselves and our clients and how to recognize what is out of our scope. 

We will approach this in an academic and yogic way. The course includes reading materials, journaling prompts, lectures, discussions, group activities and homework assignments. Using these tools we will look at what experts and the research tells us, explore our direct experiences and share those experiences with each other. 

The course is designed to be taken in a hybrid format, but can be done a-synchronistically once the first session has happened - we will record the lectures in the first cohort and then hope to offer this course in multiple languages, multiple times per year with teachers that we train in this pedagogy of caring and hope.

Atlas Yoga Studio and School acknowledges the wise teachings, ancient traditions, and Indic origins of Yoga which have helped shape and inform our journey as yoga teachers, trainers of yoga teachers and advocates of yoga. We are committed to applying these teachings for the greater good of humanity, and to using our platform as a teacher, trainer and advocate to promote accessibility, equality and inclusivity in all walks of life. We are grateful to all the teachers who have helped keep these teachings alive, and we shall strive to do the same with humility and reverence. We also acknowledge that there has been great trauma, pain and abuse at the hands of yoga teachers, trainers of yoga teachers and advocates of yoga. This course is designed as a tool to help us maintain our objectivity, our ethical commitments and the core principles of yoga philosophy.