Online Intro Training

On demand intro trauma informed teacher training

This training offers teachers an opportunity to explore the concepts and methods that underlie trauma sensitive yoga while experiencing parts of the EMBER™ yoga curriculum. It meets the requirements for IAYT continuing education and for Yoga Alliance workshop credit.

It is intended for yoga teachers, meditation instructors, and practitioners with relevant professional experience who are interested in bringing embodied, mindfulness-based tools of proven effectiveness to address the effects of trauma.

EMBER (Embodied, Mindfulness-based Emotional Resilience) is an evidence based twelve-week resilience program geared toward folx who are rebuilding their lives after trauma.

In this virtual workshop, EMBER co-founder Michele Vinbury will draw on her long experience of working with and teaching traumatized populations to discuss the psychology of trauma and the principles of trauma-informed yoga. Additionally, she will offer a brief introduction to the curriculum, which has been implemented in prisons, hospitals, and organizations responding to substance abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking and eating disorders.