Being a trauma informed yoga teacher requires a willingness to be vulnerable ourselves. We endeavour to do our very best to be aware of our language, to examine our bias', to continually update our education in this regard so that we might be leaders in creating a just, fair, equitable environment that provides a safe space to learn and grow as yoga teachers and students of yoga.

In order to receive your certificate of completion you must

• attend live on-line sessions and/or watch the recorded lessons in each module (available within 24hrs of the end of the session) and
• respond to each of the activities laid out in each lesson in each module.
• Submit discussion responses, discussion questions, reflections or any other activity to your personal slack channel. Respond to discussion in the #trauma-informed-yoga-teacher-training channel for your cohort.
• Demonstrate that you have done the practices in each module -
• There will be a password in each recorded session that you can share with the course director, Denise Davis-Gains - in Slack.

We want to make sure that you get this material on a ...

Practical Level - using good language, appropriate space and touch, understand how to use yoga technology to support clients with different types of trauma.

Theoretical Level - can discuss theories and methodologies and understand the academic writing in this field.

Future Proofing Level- leave this course with a sense of how to ensure that clients do not become traumatized in your classes/therapy sessions and clients leave with tools to support future traumatization.

Suggested: Mental Health First Aid (this will be offered through Atlas Yoga School) 

The director of the school holds the right to pass or fail a student. Either you understand and are ready to receive a certificate of completion or the director may suggest that you take longer with the material at her discretion. Every effort will be made to make sure that you complete the course in a time that is right for you.

If you are receiving this course on scholarship it is recommended that you pay it forward. Service to your community, fellow yoga teachers, the yoga community or in other ways that serve the uplifting of our profession. Serve on a board. Provide a scholarship for another teacher/student. You will know what feels right when you do it.

In this first Iteration of the Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training Course - each participant must also fill out surveys from time to time to provide feedback, testimonials and suggestions for improving the course.

You have 2 months from the end of your course to complete all requirement.