Training Description
Location:
Online via Zoom platform
Created and offered within Canada.
When:
Wednesdays - 3 mornings and 1 full-day
Wednesday July 9, 2025. 10:30am-1:30pm MT
Wednesday July 16, 2025. 10:30am-1:30pm MT
Wednesday July 23, 2025. 10:30am-1:30pm MT
Wednesday July 30, 2025. 10:30am-1:30pm/2:30pm-5:30pm MT
* 20 hrs Total (15 live contact hrs/5 hrs independent course work)
Training Overview:
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is the first yoga-based empirically validated, clinical intervention for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This program from the Center for Trauma and Embodiment is the only yoga model of its kind to have met the criteria for inclusion in the US-based National Registry of Evidenced-based Programs and Policies (NREPP) database published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Experiential in design, the TCTSY Foundational Training is a professional development opportunity for, but not limited to, participants in the roles of yoga instructors, mental health care professionals, health care providers, educators, activists, somatic practitioners – the applications of this modality extend far beyond the yoga mat. It is for those interested in understanding the complexities of systemic and interpersonal trauma and the effects on body, brain, and relational connections, the impacts on one’s nervous system and physiology, and how the underpinnings of trauma sensitive movement and breath could support healing.
This training can stand alone as a general framework to apply within many diverse contexts (clinical, medical, educational, humanitarian, personal inquiry, daily life, etc.).
Training Details:
This anti-oppressive approach to healing supports recovery from individual and collective long-term trauma through emphasis on the ancient practice of yoga with considerations of language, movement, present moment experiences, and choice.
Participants will experience how TCTSY facilitates peace building from within, learning and developing their capacity to integrate a trauma-informed lens into diverse contexts through understanding the role power and oppression play within complex trauma, attachment theory, and the neuroscience underpinning the TCTSY methodology.
While the Foundational Training does not qualify participants to facilitate TCTSY, it does provide the foundations for making your current scope of practice (clinical/movement based) more trauma-informed.
If there is interest in facilitating TCTSY in the future, this training is the primary pre-requisite required for the 300-hr TCTSY Certification Program with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment. In addition, the Foundational Training is eligible for CEU's with Yoga Alliance (YA), Canadian Yoga Alliance (CYA), and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
Participation:
This live and interactive training engages participants lectures, videos, collective embodiment practices with Nicola, large group conversations, in addition to small break out pods to foster connection with peers, dialog about content, and practice the modality. To sustain the integrity of our group learning journey while maintaining a safe enough brave space for all to participate, your presence and experience is valued.
Pre-requisites:
Curiosity.
* Note:
- You DO NOT need to be a certified yoga instructor.
- No yoga experience necessary to attend.
- This training is accessible for all different bodies and expressions.
*Please note all prices are listed in CDN dollars and registration closes Tuesday July 8, 2025 at 4pm.
Registration
* Booking fees are an additional charge that are donated to charity. Learn more about this through Humanitix.
*If the registration block does not appear, please click here to register: Online TCTSY Foundational Training Humanitix
**The value of the training is $450 CDN and we are offering a self-determined way to invest in the experience based on your access to financial and social resources. All participants receive the same access training material.
As you reflect on which fee feels aligned for you, consider aspects of your identity that do, or do not, grant you privilege and access to social capital e.g. race, gender, sexual identity, socio-economic status, educational background, able-bodied-ness, etc. This is a self-determined way to choose the fee that aligns with your social and financial context.
Space is limited for the online event.
Financial Opportunities Available:
Payment Plans
* If providing a lump sum payment is not accessible for you at this time, payment plans are available. Please take a moment to share your intended schedule for payment in 2 instalments, noting the full payment needs to be received by Tuesday July 8, 2025, prior to the course start date.
Scholarships
* If you recognize your positionality impacts access to this training, there are scholarships available for 50% reduced rate from a tier of your choice. Please take time to apply providing some insight into your reason for a scholarship request.
These places are for people who fulfil the following criteria:
Those whose positionality impacts access
Those who would not otherwise be able to afford to attend the foundational training
Those intending to bring a movement practice and trauma informed lens back to their community
To apply for a scholarship, please fill out the application HERE. Please reach out to Nicola with any questions at wellnesswithnicola@gmail.com