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Building Safety with Trauma-informed Yoga Workshops
For health care providers, yoga teachers (all levels) and anyone interested in simple ways to make
your program more trauma-informed. All shapes and sizes welcome.
No Yoga Experience Necessary. EXPERIENTIAL AND INTERACTIVE. Workshop is TWO parts (YA CEs) (register below)
To be rescheduled. Email to get notice of next workshops.
Total cost: $60.00 Scholarships available. Includes all support materials. ALL proceeds benefit our programs.
ONLY SATURDAYS in August 2024.
Based on the book Building Safety with Trauma-informed Yoga.
“I am so grateful I took this course to add to my toolbox and see yoga in a different light. It was very eye opening to recognize ways to teach trauma informed compared to a regular yoga class. I would highly recommend this course to everyone. Yael is an amazing teacher who helps you process trauma teaching information and how to become a trauma informed instructor.” KH, Salt Lake City
Building Safety — available now. Pain Management - Preorder, available Fall 2024
2024 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Do you want to reconnect with the reasons you went into your helping profession? Do you want to help your staff or coworkers address issues of vicarious trauma?
“For those who work with trauma, a hazard of the job is vicarious trauma – when listening to clients and patients begins to change the way you perceive the world and to affect your health.” — Trauma Stewardship, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Leaders in the field of treating trauma and PTSD believe that the body-based modality of a trauma-sensitive yoga program can provide healing tools through simple stretching exercises and mindfulness breathing for stress and trauma. There is a robust body of evidence that body-based modalities, such as trauma-sensitive yoga and mindfulness, including Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s 2014 study, can offer trauma survivors a way to learn to feel safe in their own bodies and a way to regulate their core arousal systems. Yoga can help people heal, reconnect to their bodies, rewire their brains and become more resilient.
Please contact Yael (greentreeyoga@comcast.net) if you need a discounted price or if you have a question about Free “Refresher”. Thanks!
Listen to refugee women community leaders who are taking yoga breaks back to their communities. You may be inspired to learn trauma-sensitive yoga too.
Why GreenTREE Yoga Trainings?
All sizes, shapes, and abilities can do this yoga.
Taught by certified, experienced teachers and clinicians who work in the field.
Incorporates trauma-sensitive yoga as a healing tool in your work and personal life.
Addresses the cumulative impact of vicarious trauma.
Provides overview of current neuroscience, writings, and applications in the field.
Available in convenient and affordable modules.
Who will benefit?
Appropriate for clinicians, educators, healthcare providers, yoga teachers, and anyone interested in learning more practical skills for self-care and healing trauma.
CE credits will be available for clinicians (NASW), therapists, school teachers (USOE licensure), yoga teachers (RYT Yoga Alliance recertification) for some or all of the modules.
“It was most helpful knowing it's okay to do yoga and trauma therapy. Today I started with thoughts of leaving the social work career, I definitely feel EMPOWERED to continue. Self-care is critical. Thanks!” — K.L.
Yael Calhoun is the author of two books: Building Safety with Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Guide for Teachers and Clinicians (Routledge Press, 2024) and Trauma-informed Yoga for Pain Management: A Practical Manual for Simple Stretching, Gentle Strengthening, and Mindful Breathing (Singing Dragon Press, 2024)
Yael Calhoun, MA, MS, E-RYT is a long time educator and author, with a strong background in education and teaching yoga as a tool to address trauma, stress, depression, anxiety and compassion fatigue. She is a writer/series editor of over a dozen books and continues to develop books, DVDs/CDs, and trainings manuals on yoga, including yoga for trauma, autism, children, seniors, caregivers, classrooms, and cancer survivors. Currently, Yael is the co-founder and Executive Director of GreenTREE Yoga, a 501c3 nonprofit charity, dedicated to bringing the benefits of yoga to people of all ages and abilities in a variety of settings, including: schools, prisons, community organizations/groups, substance abuse recovery centers, senior centers, and caregiving. She has developed professional development trainings for CE credits for clinicians, psychologists, and nurses. Her current project is developing a training guide for people who work with refugee populations.
Yael’s education includes an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a Master’s of Arts in Education from SCSU, and a Master’s of Science from University of Rhode Island. In addition, Yael is certified yoga instructor (E-RYT) through Yoga Alliance and completed a 40-hr Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Training at The Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute.
Yael devotes most of her teaching time to trauma-informed classes for: (1) yoga for stress; and, (2) pain management. She works with children, refugees, and veterans (Salt Lake VA), where she has developed a program for PTSD and Military Sexual Trauma and pain management. She finds yoga to be a powerful healing tool for people trying to feel more comfortable in their bodies and to feel their bodies as a safe place.
