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Trauma Sensitive Yoga Trainings

Bring the Body into Healing

Conventional, top-down trauma therapies often overlook how trauma affects the body. An embodied, bottom-up approach creates the conditions for real, lasting healing—supporting the whole person.

Join thousands of trauma-informed professionals around the world who are successfully treating trauma by placing body awareness at the centre of the healing process.

About Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)

TCTSY is a programme of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE). It is the first yoga-based, empirically validated clinical intervention for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD.

TCTSY is the only yoga model to meet the criteria for inclusion in the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), published by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Foundational Training in Trauma Sensitive Yoga

20-Hour Training Breakdown:

  • 14 hours in person or live via Zoom

  • 6 hours self-paced study

This training emphasises the fundamental elements of trauma-sensitive yoga and explores how they relate to anti-oppressive, trauma-informed work.

Who is it for?
Anyone interested in understanding how trauma impacts the body, brain, and relationships. Past participants include:

  • Yoga teachers

  • Mental health clinicians

  • Social workers

  • Educators

  • Activists

  • Somatic practitioners

  • Bodyworkers and healthcare providers

What You'll Learn

Through a mix of movement, breathwork, discussion, and group practicum, participants will:

  • Build a foundational understanding of TCTSY’s principles and methods

  • Learn how to facilitate body-based practices that support healing

  • Explore how to co-create experiences of safety and shared agency

  • Engage with the psychological and neuroscientific research underpinning the TCTSY model

  • Understand trauma’s wide-reaching impacts across systems and lived experience

Training Topics Include

  • Trauma theory, attachment theory, and interoceptive awareness

  • The biology of trauma and its effects on the nervous system

  • Power, oppression, and intersectionality in healing work

  • Creating trauma-sensitive relationships

  • Key components and structure of a TCTSY session

  • Common challenges in facilitation

  • Current research and studies on TCTSY

Certification & Continuing Education

  • 20 Continuing Education (CE) hours with Yoga Alliance

  • 18 CEs with the International Association of Yoga Therapists

  • 4 self-care CEs with the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork

This training is also the primary prerequisite for the 300-hour TCTSY Certification Programme, held annually.

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