This workshop will emphasize the core components of the practice and process of trauma sensitive yoga, and how they relate to anti-oppressive and trauma sensitive work. Participants will learn to apply this approach to healing through the application of a trauma-informed lens. Developing an understanding of complex trauma, attachment theory, and the neuroscience underpinning the TCTSY methodology, participants learn skills to facilitate a movement and breath practice that is supportive to healing from long term trauma.

This workshop is designed for yoga teachers, mental health clinicians, social workers, and health care providers who want to apply a trauma informed lens using the evidence-based techniques of Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), and support those professionals in expanding their current practice to incorporate TCTSY through broadening their knowledge of the impacts of complex trauma on the nervous system and their repertoire with trauma sensitive movement and breath.

Additionally, this workshop is designed to support those professionals in expanding their current practice to incorporate aspects the Evidence Based Practice (EBP) of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) through expanding their knowledge of the impacts of complex trauma on the nervous system and broadening their repertoire with trauma sensitive movement and breath.

Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is a unique intervention based on the robust research that has emerged from The Trauma Center in Boston, MA (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25004196). It has become a leading evidence-based adjunct treatment for complex trauma (sometimes called chronic, treatment-resistant Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and is the only yoga-based practice accepted by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association (SAMSHA) and National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP). This training is the pre-requisite required to apply for the 300-hr TCTSY Certification Program with the Trauma Center. For more information on the technique, visit: https://www.traumasensitiveyoga.com/ 

For questions about the program please email: waltersPhD@gmail.com

Please note that this program is solely for professional development and is not intended as an intervention for those who have experienced trauma. Talking about trauma, even in the context of a professional training, can be triggering.

Anna is a psychotherapist, neurotherapist and TCTSY facilitator in the Boston area. She holds weekly TCTSY classes and is a trainer and supervisor for the TCTSY training program. Anna has experience working with culturally and clinically diverse populations of children, adolescents, adults and families in domestic and international settings and has worked for research institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Boston Medical Center, The Trauma Center, National Institutes of Health, and the Veterans Administrations Hospital. She holds a Bachelors degree in Neuroscience from Brandeis University and Masters degree in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine.

We are offering a 1/2 off discount for members of the Flint community. Please register here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=38677&stype=41&sTG=2&prodId=10568 

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