Trauma-Informed Yoga for Youth

It is so great to have this online learning tool. As a full-time working adult, it gives flexibility in completing the course work online and you can watch your progress as each area is "checked off". The meet-ups are encouraging. It is a blessing to have this meet-up recorded in the case of being unable to join a specific week, especially during the summer :) Thank you for respecting us as adults to complete our own journey with the course work and completion of assignments! The instructors and online help are fabulous and efficient! Response time for glitches or questions are quick! Thank you! This is the third class/training that I have participated in through Yoga Ed. I highly recommend all three trainings!

I was especially interested in the TraumaEd section of the 3 part Online training. The pandemic has brought stresses to all the children and sharing what I have learned will serve me and the children in my class aiding us in balancing our emotions. I found the descriptions of how trauma can manifest in behavior very helpful with specific poses and breathing to help remedy the behavior. Understanding how trauma gets locked in the body, and learning about the types of trauma was so interesting and helpful. Megan has a lovely, relaxed and friendly teaching style which is not easy to pull off if reading a script! I loved hearing about her educational and work background and appreciated her professionalism and enjoyed watching the recorded meet ups. Many thanks to the Yoga Ed team. I will use these materials with my students for the years to come. Katie Ulmer

The Yoga ed team were fantastic! I loved the courses I did and found the programme so well set out and full of useful resources for future teaching. Having lost touch with my yoga practice over the years since motherhood, I have found yoga in my life again and it is thanks to Yogaed for inspiring and encouraging me! I can't wait to do my certification and to bring yoga to my students. The Trauma-informed courses and foci were so valuable especially during this COVID time.

I recently took Trauma Informed Yoga & it was one of the best things I have done for my teaching. The past 2 years has been difficult for teachers and students alike. Trauma Informed Yoga allowed me to gain insight into so many useful social/emotional tools that I have successfully implemented into my daily yoga with my students. As their teacher, I am benefiting from it as much as they are through mindful meditations, posing & partner work alongside useful discussion around our feelings throughout the day. Thank you Megan & Yoga Ed. I will definitely be back for more.

This course is extremely informative and the support you get from the staff is unwavering. I have worked with students who have gone through various traumas and the material included in this course is so relevant & helpful. I’ve learned so many tools for my teaching and I feel it’s made me a better overall instructor for my students. I can’t say enough good things about this training!

This training gave me practical tools that I use daily for my personal practice, as well as with all the children in my life. The trauma-informed cueing, invitational language, and grounding techniques were taught in memorable and meaningful ways. I use them daily. The course teaches developmentally appropriate practice for each age and stage in a digestible and effective format. It provides as many supplemental resources as on could ask for to support us in continued learning.

Great course with great resources. Very interactive and the communication with staff is easy and personable. Would definitely recommend this course to others!

Great class with a wealth of information presented in understandable manner. Instructors were knowledgeable and helpful throughout the course.

SO helpful and supportive in encouraging me to bring this into the creative work that I'm already doing. I can't wait to bring all of this to my community and provide youth and teens with these resources. The weekly meetings were so awesome and we always had amazing group discussions. One suggestion I have would be to have captions for the videos to make them more accessible for people who are hard of hearing or for the deaf community. It could also be good for anyone who doesn't have English as their first language and anyone with a learning disability as well! Thanks so much for this incredible program :)

What a wonderful experience this has been! This course was taught by an amazing teacher who was so knowledgeable, supportive, and motivational. I really enjoyed these last 8 weeks. I am excited to get out there and start making a difference in the high school I teach at. Thank you for providing me with all the resources and giving me the confidence to push forward.

I enjoyed this program so much, I have learned a lot and look forward to intergrading into the work I do.

Valuable information shared in an easy and concise manner. many topics discussed were not on my radar prior to me participating in this class.

Yoga Ed was a fabulous training platform. The courses stayed on content and addressed the practice and the philosophies of trauma. I feel that I have increased my personal teaching knowledge immensely. The demonstrations of poses were complete and followable. Cueing was appropriate and direct.

Megan was a great instructor! Her ability to demonstrate and discuss while honoring where everyone is at is exceptional! Mahalo YogaEd and Megan for sharing your time and knowledge!

I could not have chosen a more comprehensible yoga education training program. I am so grateful that I was led to Yoga Ed, and I know that this organization and program will always be a part of my life. Great trainers, knowledgeable, professional, and patient. They made training so enjoyable and valuable. Thank you Yoga Ed for offering this training!

Yoga Ed. has provided me with so many great resources!! Mahalo for sharing such beautiful work with us all - there's truly something for everyone here!

Yoga Ed. is a wonderful place to learn how to teach yoga with a trauma-informed focus. The instructors are well skilled in their areas of expertise. The class is informative and challenging in a way that makes you feel prepared to teach.

There was so much valuable information shared that helped me actually begin healing my own trauma and even improving my own relationships right now. I can't wait to be able to use what I learned in the field to help others. The instructor in the videos was engaging and thoughtful as well and it was a pleasure learning from her.

Thanks so much Chelsea for teaching this class great info. I am encouraged to learn and put my practice to work.

it was great

Very, I mean very resourceful and beneficial for kids and adults. I will definitely be implying these yoga activities into the future schedule for my kids and teenagers. Thank you so much!

I am a clinical therapist and I use the program with clients all the time. I have used the curriculum in a women’s shelter, and residential facility and short term shelter for youth. The youth absolutely love it.

This was one of the best trainings I have ever taken for working with youth who have experienced trauma.

I’m just finishing up this course with several others from my district, and we have LOVED it! Very well put together and run. It’s been easy to follow along, is self-paced, and the communication with the Yoga Ed. staff has been very prompt. Thank you guys!

I was extremely happy with this course and would definitely recommend it to everyone I know. The content was laid out very well and was extremely beneficial. The weekly check-ins were a wonderful way to connect with other individuals with a passion to do this work.

I absolutely loved it. I am impressed with the level of professionalism in this course and the rich information I have learned.