Solemarch: 25h Yoga for Trauma Teacher Training with Sangeeta Vallabhan (guest teacher)

Solemarch - Yoga for Trauma is a 25 hour weekend training, meant to lay the foundation for teaching yoga to people who have experienced trauma.

We live in an incredibly diverse society, with equally diverse life experiences. How anyone responds to any one type of traumatic experience varies from person to person. There is no right or wrong way to respond to any stressful event, but how we treat each other and ourselves sometimes requires more care and consideration.

After more traumatic experiences, such as rape, war, state sponsored aggression and atrocities, systemic racism, car accidents, losing a loved one or physical, sexual or verbal abuse, to name only a few, most of us would benefit from a type of yoga or meditation practice that is unlike your typical “open” class. For a traumatized individual, those classes can seem intimidating, alienating and simply not comforting. In this training, you will learn some methods and concepts of teaching a class for those who’ve experienced trauma and need something different from conventional offerings of yoga.

We will explore the impact of racial trauma and how important it is to hold space for the lived experiences of people of color. We will explore serving different populations such as communities of color, rape and domestic violence survivors, and veterans and the military community.

This training will include lecture, practicing Yoga for Trauma, and practice teaching sessions. There is some required reading and homework.

• Tuition $500
• Early bird $425 (ends March 31st)
• BIPOC & diversity scholarships are available (full and partial scholarships, submission deadline is March 15th)

You do not need to be a yoga teacher to attend this training. Clinicians and others who work in fields supporting those who have experienced trauma are welcome to attend. The 25 hours is made up of 16 hours in person. The rest is required reading, individual study, and homework.

All sessions will be live and in person at Baby Cobra Yoga, Bushwick studio.

You will learn:

• How to plan a Yoga for Trauma class for a particular population

• Different types of trauma that people experience

• How to pull from your existing knowledge of yoga

• How to aim to keep the space and your classes trauma informed

• How to teach yoga that is trauma informed for the student(s), while also aiming to respect the roots of yoga

• That sanitizing yoga is not the solution for working with vulnerable populations

• There is not one way to do this, honor who you are as a yoga teacher

As a group, we will collectively work to keep our learning space respectful of each other.

Click here to apply for a Solemarch BIPOC/diversity Scholarship.

www.sangeetavallabhan.com
www.thepracticecoalition.org