THE TRAUMA INFORMED YOGA (TIY) POCKET GUIDE
THE TIY POCKET GUIDE
10 PROVEN METHODS TO SETTING UP AND CREATING A SAFE SPACE FOR A TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA CLASS
Yoga has the ability..
to be an extremely powerful tool for mindfulness, body awareness, and healing from trauma that is stored in the body over time. Two major factors in this form of teaching are to make it accessible and invitational to all who practice.
In this 25-page guide, I am sharing with you what I believe to be the 10 most important tips in creating a trauma-informed yoga class that is accessible to all, is free from demands, and allows your students to find empowerment and choice within themselves.
Your guidance has the power to evoke self-compassion, self-awareness, and self-discovery in your students. Your guidance has the power to build a new relationship of trust for your students. All of which will help guide them along their healing journey, wherever that may be at this moment.
When you are ready, begin applying these trauma-informed methods to your Yoga classes and to your healing spaces today, and watch how this changes your students and client’s response to the practice and the way that you show up in any setting from here on.
Hello! I am Nichole and this is Yoga Your Way LLC
I first began practicing yoga in 2010 as a home practice based. In 2014, I opened my mind up to yoga philosophy and incorporating mindfulness into my physical practice on the mat, the workplace, and personal relationships as a way to heal childhood and adult traumas still stored in my body and directing my temperaments and personality and was able to alleviate high anxiety and establish a sense of identity that I hadn’t found in my entire life.
I strongly believe that there is a yogi in each and every one of us, we just have our own way of practicing. A way that is unique to the individual. A way that may not always involve the asanas (postures). A way that is rooted in philosophy and the goal of total liberation of the self.
Because you can do yoga, and you can do it your way.
This guide is an introduction to trauma-informed yoga best practices. My 25-hour (and tailed 6 and 12 hour) teacher trainings are extensive, and dive deeper into each of the 10 methods described here in detail that you will be able to apply to any population.