SYF Gives Back annual Trauma Conscious Training 20-Hour TIYTT

Our healing-centered, trauma-conscious training is a complete 20-hour certification track integrated into the SYF experience. Utilizing this event as platform to serve, we’ve been offering some form of trauma-informed yoga training at SYF since the beginning. We have trained hundreds of yoga teachers and brought awareness to the devastating effects of Post Traumatic Stress in our communities across the country. We’ve called this program all sorts of things from Yoga for Veterans and Yoga for First Responders to Yoga for PTSD, with one simple aim: Provide the tools to alleviate the effects of trauma.  A trauma-sensitive yoga training takes into account the specific aspects of traditional yoga practices that ameliorate the effects of trauma and stress on the human nervous system. Yoga is and has always been a healing balm to soothe the injured human nervous system, ergo a Yoga for PTSD training, a trauma-sensitive yoga training, trauma-informed yoga training… Call it what you will, we know what outcomes have emerged from this training.  We know that by training hundreds we have impacted thousands.

This year we are grateful to welcome the founder of Active Peace Yoga, Reggie Hubbard, as lead faculty and curator.

Reggie has accepted our invite to curate a training rooted in the concept of the healed healer in direct contrast to the norms of the wounded healer, and we believe what comes together will be the most extraordinary experience, suited to our times.

What we know so far about the training that is being created:

The pillars of trauma informed yoga pedagogy are rooted in creating the conditions for students to learn emotional regulation skills in environments free from harm that increase body and breath awareness.  

• What if we truly looked into creating this intentional space also for ourselves as teachers?  
• How might we use tapas, Svadhyaya and Ishvara Pranidhana as foundations of our personal practice that spur deep healing in our own lives that we then share with our students and communities?

Participants can expect to leave the training with deeper awareness of their emotional landscape and ideas to supplement their personal practices for healing and liberation — to be able to serve their students and communities more presently and from a fuller cup.  All will benefit from seeing trauma consciousness in the context of deepening self-compassion and nourishing personal practice — breaking through to personal liberation and more skill in serving others.  

Please note that a Trauma Conscious Yoga Training Pass is offered in two formats — Trauma Conscious Yoga Training ONLY or the Trauma Conscious Yoga Training + All Access Pass. The Trauma Conscious Yoga Training ONLY ticket does not include entry to the main Sedona Yoga Festival event. The Trauma Conscious Yoga Training + All Access Passes does include entry to the main Sedona Yoga Festival event.

For those that already have their All Access Pass for the Sedona Yoga Festival and are interested in joining Trauma Conscious Yoga Training, please choose the ‘Passholder Add-on’ option.

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When we know better, we do better

70% of the US population has survived some form of trauma which means, trauma is in every room. Whether you work in a yoga studio, online from home, or in a shelter, food bank, or recovery center, you are interacting, probably without even knowing it, with someone who has survived trauma. Our duty as yoga teachers is to do no harm and yet even with best intentions without knowledge of the ways trauma shows up, our actions may be unskillful. 

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