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Sensory Awareness and Yoga: The Missing Link for Trauma Part 1
12hrs
The foundation of this 12 hour training is the development of your own embodied self-awareness.
You will learn body-based tools from yoga and somatic therapy to support a nervous system in stress, increase resilience and enhance your yoga practice and your life.
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with Barb Leese & Dr. Jackie Ang
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In this training, you will:
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Understand trauma and its effects on the body, mind and nervous system through the lens of yoga, psychotherapy and neuroscience
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Experience tools to befriend, respect and regulate your nervous system
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Learn to use yoga as a resource for greater self-connection and resilience
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Broaden your understanding of the applications of yoga to support and resolve daily stress and traumatic stress
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Who is this training for?
We believe this training is relevant for any human being who experiences stress while navigating the ups and downs of life. Trauma is not an event, but a lasting response of the nervous system when we face an experience that overwhelms us.
Whatever your role - yoga practitioner, instructor, clinician, parent, friend or otherwise, this workshop will offer you a foundational understanding of how the trauma response shapes us and our life experience. As we begin to understand and identify the effects of traumatic stress in our own being, we become better able to support ourselves and others dealing with it's impact on our lives.
This workshop is the first in a series about trauma-informed yoga teaching, but this module is geared towards all audiences, with a focus on the self-awareness required to facilitate trauma-informed spaces. Continuing Education Credits are available for Yoga Alliance registered teachers.
If you are an instructor, this module is a pre-requisite for the trauma-informed teaching course which will be offered in 300hr training program at The Yogashala Wellness Centre.
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Format
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This is an interactive workshop combining education and experiential practices. We will explore a range of techniques including yoga, breathwork, meditation, somatics and self-inquiry.
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- For all information and registration please visit wwwyogashalawaterdown.com
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About the Trainers
Barb Leese is the lead instructor of Yogashala’s 200-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Program and an experienced and committed educator, with over 30 years in yoga, dance, personal training and mind/body techniques. A recipient of Burlington’s Civic Recognition Award for International Achievements, she is a leader and mentor to the hundreds of yoga instructors she has trained over the past 10 years.
Jackie Ang is a family doctor, psychotherapist, meditation and yoga instructor. She brings her experience in trauma-informed mindfulness and somatic psychotherapy to this workshop and also serves on faculty in Yogashala’s 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program.
You can find out more about Barb and Jackie at: https://www.yogashalawaterdown.com/200-yoga-teacher-training-program/