This Training is an Online,
​In-Depth, Self-Paced Video Course.

Created by Sarahjoy Marsh, MA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT

With so much increasing need for safe, informed, attuned, sensitive, adaptive, inclusive, and culturally competent care, yoga is being considered a vital resource in settings where such care is needed. We provide yoga programs in prisons, hospitals, schools, and rehab centers. We also have requests to provide yoga in mental health triage centers, immigration centers, and domestic violence shelters.

While yoga provides a body-centered, brain-nurturing, stress-reducing experience, and develops the life skills tool kit our community members need to move from struggling with surviving to learning about thriving, HOW yoga is provided has a significant impact on its efficacy.

​Informed by emerging fields of trauma research and neuroscience, this powerful and unique training blends yoga, neuroscience, mindfulness, and brain science to address the complexities and residues of trauma in brain, mind and body. Together, we explore the rhythms of trauma, its manifestations in the mind and body, and how to re-awaken crucial brain capacities for living a vital life. We will dive deeply into polyvagal theory, attachment theory, and the value of right and left brain functions. Integrated with and facilitated through yogic practices, this is an embodied practice of social justice and transformation.

This training is appropriate for yoga teachers and mental health professionals. It is designed for those interested in integrating yoga, mindfulness, and meditation into their work.

This online video training covers content in yoga, neuroscience, mindfulness, and trauma-informed methodologies. The training focuses on trainees' skill development in multiple aspects of teaching, including language choices, pace, voice prosody, and reciprocity. Not just content-rich, this training helps teachers to deepen and develop their teaching skills as well as their interpersonal neurobiological self-care while teaching.

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This trauma-informed, brain-sensitive yoga training responds to the rising needs and prepares teachers for HOW to deliver truly effective yoga.​

• You will learn the:
  • neurological, physiological, and psycho-spiritual workings of yoga for the brain, body, mind, and heart.
  • trauma-informed principles for the triune brain and polyvagal systems.
  • mindfulness-tools that help acclimate students' to increasing levels of safety and self-awareness.
  • breathing practices to disarm over-active (rajasic) or to nourish under-active (tamasic) nervous systems.
  • integration of right and left brain aspects for yoga practices.
  • essential relationship skills based on attachment theory and brain development.
• Your lessons include skill development to support the development of your:
  • ​Voice prosody, pace, and purpose.
  • Language choices and strategies.
  • Personal and interpersonal resonance.
  • Compassionate responsiveness (not enmeshment).

Donation + Registration

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​Course Objectives

Upon completion of the Trauma-Informed, Brain-Sensitive Yoga and Mindfulness for Nurses learning activities, Nurse learners will be able to do the following:

1. Understand and communicate how a history of trauma may manifest and present in a patient’s mind and body.
   
2. Explain the principles of Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Theory and how they relate to the patient with manifestations of trauma. 
   
3. Identify positive changes that yoga and mindfulness can induce in the physiology and psychology of the patient.
   
4. Teach yoga and mindfulness practices that positively impact the polyvagal system in the context of trauma recovery and stress management of the patient. 
   
5. Teach mindfulness practices to patients to increase self-awareness, improve the sense of well-being, and reduce stress.
   
6. Teach breathing practices to calm or energize the patient, in response to the patient’s individual needs. 
   
7. Use language choices and strategies to improve communication with patients in a way that is responsive to the patient’s individual needs. 
   
8. Implement verbal and behavioral strategies to convey compassion for patients to increase the patient’s sense of connection and well-being. 
   
9. Implement mindfulness and breathing practices for their professional self-regulation and stress reduction, and to increase compassion for themselves and their patients in addressing challenging situations.

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Course Information and Disclosures

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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Course Curriculum

Module Lessons

The Effects of Trauma

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Types of Stress Responses​

The Triune Brain​

The Role of the Senses in Yoga​

Addressing the 3 Primary Needs​

3 Major Differences for Those with Trauma​

Limbic System Considerations for Healing & Resilience​

The Roles of a Yoga-Informed Nurse​

Brain Harmony: Top-Down, Bottom-Up Processing​

PolyVagal Theory​

The Intersection of Yoga and PolyVagal Theory​

Healing and the Dynamics of Relational Fields​

Yogic Perspective on Mind & Body: The Gunas​

Yogic Perspective on the Inner Ecology of Being Human: The Koshas​

The Role of Implicit Memory​

How Streams of Implicit Memory Influence the Present Moment​

Window of Tolerance, Window of Capacity​

Attachment Theory​

The Causes of Suffering: The Kleshas​

The States of the Nervous System​

Embodied Anticipations: What Are They? Why Does It Matter?​

Right Brain and Left Brain Integrations

Practicum Components

Mindfulness on the Brain Function of Orienting ​​

• Seated Poses
• Recline Poses
• Standing Poses
• Floor Poses​

Mindfulness on Sound and the Space in which Sound Exists​

• Sound and Space Mindfulness Meditation
• Sound and Space: Seated Poses
• Sound and Space: Prone Poses
• Sound and Space: Reclined Spine Twist

Chanting Practice​

• Chanting Practice

Mindfulness for Getting Grounding​

• Standing Poses

Breathing Practices for Resilience, Relief and Renewal​

• Breath Practice: Gathering Wisdom
• Breath Practice: Pressure Release Valve Breathing
• Breath Practice: Physiological Reset
• Breath Practice: Pill Bug Breathing

Left and Right Brain Practices​

• ​​Standing Poses
• Floor Practices

Chair Yoga: Adapting the Practice for Accessibility​

• Adaptive Chair-Based Yoga

Top-Down and Bottom-UP Processing​

• Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processing Physical Practice

The Precuneus and Social Engagement Networks: Brain-Based Yoga​

• ​​Standing Poses
• Floor Poses

Practices Based on Restoring Attachment Styles​

• Internalizing a Beneficial Other
• Remembering You Are Cared For
• Effort, Surrender, & Shared Humanity
• Internalizing Secure Attachment

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​This training is eligible for 8 hours of continuing education credits through the Yoga Alliance as well as the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

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​I have learned so much about myself and why I respond to situations the way I do. I feel better prepared to guide others in that same exploration.

Christine Wilson, Trauma-Informed, Brain-Sensitive Yoga Training (TIBS)  

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​As a victim advocate and yoga therapist, the Trauma-Informed, Brain-Sensitive Yoga Training has done what no other training has done for me in its intersection of yoga philosophy and practices 
with evidence-based trauma-informed information. Not only does it inform my teaching, it gives me a strong foundation and understanding that helps my clients also understand the neurobiology and physiology of their traumas.

Laura Guilliams, Trauma-Informed, Brain-Sensitive Yoga Training (TIBS)  

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There is so much useful information in this training for anyone wanting to delve deeper into the cross section of yoga philosophy and brain trauma-- whether you are a yoga teacher wanting more knowledge of how to be attuned to and supportive to students from all walks of life, or just a kind human wanting to be more conscious of how you might move with grace and sensitivity around your fellow co-habitants of this world--- there is so much to glean in this program. Well designed and easy to integrate.

​Cira Hamlin, Trauma-Informed, Brain-Sensitive Yoga Training (TIBS) 

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The TIBS training with Sarahjoy brought together concepts of yoga and neuroscience. This new lens of practicing will support my personal healing journey as well as my clients. Thank you!

Celeste Arnold, Trauma-Informed, Brain-Sensitive Yoga Training (TIBS) 

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I find this so exciting! Yoga changes lives for the better and now we're going to learn "how to reawaken crucial brain capacities so we can live a vital life!" Wow! I'm in :)

Rae Hawley Foster, Trauma-Informed, Brain-Sensitive Yoga Training (TIBS) 

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Donation Investment Levels

Sustainer; $600: Your financial resources allow for your to participate at this contribution level. You are providing 4 yoga classes for 10 students. You help us Sustain the Yoga Community inside Oregon’s prisons. Includes a tax-deductible donation of $320 in support of our Teacher Training Programs in Oregon's Prisons.

Reciprocity; $460: Your financial resources enable you to participate at this contribution level, yet not more. We understand! Your contribution supports 2 yoga classes for 10 students. We call this Reciprocity because you’re supporting students’ to have access to yoga and we’re honored to discount your training fee by $140 in recognition of your desire to grow your skills and your service. Includes a tax-deductible donation of $180 in support of our Teacher Training Programs in Oregon's Prisons.

Mutuality; $360: Your financial resources need careful consideration so that what you invest in is supports you and others, without compromising your financial responsibilities. We understand this! Your contribution supports 1 yoga class for 10 students in Oregon’s prisons. We call this Mutuality because we want to support you to have access to this training and we want to provide you with a discount of $240 payment level that still lets you also support access to yoga in Oregon’s prisons. Includes a tax-deductible donation of $80 in support of our Teacher Training Programs in Oregon's Prisons.

Accessibility; $280: Your financial resources need even more careful consideration, yet we know you also want to attend trainings that deepen your skill and help you to serve others. This is our most basic payment option. It covers the cost of the training. This level of registration does not include a tax deductible donation.

Your investment in this training supports the DAYA Foundation Prison Yoga Teacher Trainings. Thank you for supporting vital, life-changing programs!

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