Training Description

Location:

Online via Zoom platform

When:

Friday April 4, 2025. 5pm-8pm MT

Saturday April 5, 2025. 10am-1pm/3-6pm MT (2hr lunch break)

Sunday April 6, 2025. 10am-1pm/2-5pm MT (1hr lunch break)

* 20 hrs Total (15 live contact hrs/5 hrs independent course work)

Participation:

This interactive training will engage you in learning content through live lectures, videos, opportunities for collective embodiment practices, large group conversations, in addition to small break out pods to foster connection with peers. To sustain the integrity of our group learning journey while maintaining a 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.

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. 

This training is designed for mental health care professionals, medical practitioners, body workers, educators, activists, yoga instructors, and those with personal interest. It provides an understanding of how systemic oppression and interpersonal trauma perpetuate harm, impacting one’s brain, body and relationships. 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.

TCTSY is an evidence-based clinical treatment for Complex-PTSD, Complex Trauma and Developmental Trauma grounded in the western medical model with robust research demonstrating successful outcomes. This is the only yoga-based technique endorsed by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association (SAMHSA) in the United States. It was developed in collaboration with the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts starting in 2003 and is the foundational program with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment with the Justice Resource Institute.

This training is the prerequisite required to apply for the 300-hr TCTSY Certification Program with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment. In addition, it is also eligible for CEU's with Yoga Alliance (YA), Canadian Yoga Alliance (CYA), and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). 

*Please note all prices are listed in CDN dollars and registration closes Thursday April 3, 2025 at 11:59pm.

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 however we offer a self-determined way to invest in the training based on your access to financial and social resources. All participants receive the same access training material.

The scale is based on your self-determined access to resources, privilege, & social capital. In your self-determination, please consider your positionality of privilege. You are encouraged to self-assess this based on aspects of your personhood (e.g. race, gender & sexual identity, socio-economic status, educational background, able-bodied-ness, etc.) that do, or do not, grant you access to social capital.

Please choose the self-determined amount register with your payment. 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 Thursday April 4, 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

Scholarships are now closed until the next training opportunity.