Description
Yoga for Wellness: Trauma-Informed Yoga Certificate & Mental Health Integration
Yoga for Wellness is a trauma-informed yoga training designed to support both personal healing and professional growth. This 5-day immersive module provides participants with a Trauma-Informed Yoga Certificate and is a core component of our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification. It is also open to anyone—yoga students, teachers, and wellness professionals—interested in using Yoga as a tool for mental health support, emotional resilience, and nervous system regulation.
This training bridges modern trauma research with ancient yogic practices, drawing from the work of experts such as Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, and Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory) to help participants understand the deep connection between trauma, the brain, and the body. You’ll learn how to guide safe, inclusive, and healing-informed practices that empower both you and your students.
At Sangha Yoga Collective, we believe that every yoga teacher should be trauma-informed. Creating emotionally safe, inclusive environments is not only essential for healing but a responsibility we carry as facilitators of this sacred practice. This training will give you the tools to offer yoga in a way that is compassionate, body-wise, and sensitive to the lived experiences of your students. Read more here.
Whether you’re here to support your own healing or that of your community, Yoga for Wellness will deepen your understanding of how yoga can transform trauma into resilience and self-awareness into self-compassion. This is Yoga as medicine. This is Yoga as care.
What you will learn:
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Learn to teach SYC signature class: Yin+Restore
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How the brain and nervous system process trauma
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Foundations of the Polyvagal Theory and its relevance to Yoga
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What it truly means to be a trauma-informed yoga teacher
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Understanding our somatic (body-based) responses to stress and emotional overwhelm
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How to recognize and handle triggers safely within the yoga space
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An overview of chronic pain and how trauma impacts long-term physical health
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How to support general mental and emotional health conditions through yoga practice
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Introduction to Ayurveda for understanding individual constitutions and imbalances
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Introduction to Yoga Nidra, a guided meditative practice for deep rest and healing
Key Competencies Taught: Biomechanics, Physiology, Meditation, Asana + Teaching Methodology.
Required Reading:
- Yoga for Wellness Training Manual
- My Grandmother’s Hands by: Resmaa Menakem
- Radiant Rest by: Tracee Stanley
Yoga for Wellness counts as 45-hours towards your 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate. Training modules can be taken in any order, though Yoga Teaching Skills can only be taken once the other 4 modules have been completed.
Each day will open and close with meditation. Our journey in between will be a combination of theory, movement and meditation. Each day we will experience a master class designed to help us release trauma, rebuild stress resiliency and balance our nervous system. Subsequent learning will surround how to teach this style of practice including group work and practice teaching. A final assignment will be given in order to receive your certificate of completion.
Upon registering you are agreeing to the Terms + Conditions listed here.
Continuing Education Credits upon completion
- Yoga Alliance = 45
- canfitpro = 4
- ACE = TBD
QUESTIONS? Please reach out yoga@sanghayogacollective.com or schedule a call our calendly link
For our full Training Schedule – CLICK HERE
Please note: Registration closes 14 days before training start date.
If you want to take your full 200-hr YTT (and receive 10% all of your courses), start by paying the deposit of $450. Someone will contact you to register for your individual courses.
Yoga for Wellness is a hybrid training consisting one live/virtual 3-day weekend (Friday-Sunday), followed by an additional 3-day weekend taught in-person (Friday–Sunday)
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