Trauma Informed Facilitator Training
Hosted by Kirsten Wilkinson at Shakti Yoga Therapy Centre, JHB or online via Zoom
17-19 May
For enquiries, contact healingmotionkw@gmail.com
This training is more than an education, it is a practical learning experience to transform your offering and the spaces you occupy.
This training offers you immediate tools, methods and interventions in order to instantaneously cultivate a more trauma-informed approach in your current studio, classes, business, organization, and offerings.
It is an integrative and holistic approach to discovering the connections between empowerment and resilience through personal exploration, invitational language, safe space creation, supportive solutions, and facilitating choice-making.
This 20Hr Training is designed for:
Experienced, new and novice yoga teachers and yoga business owners hoping to integrate trauma informed and accessible yoga in studio, online and community settings.
Health, social, service, and community professionals hoping to integrate yoga, embodied, and mindful somatic practices with a trauma informed approach into their existing practice, organizations, and work.
Activists, humanitarians and social justice advocates hoping to add somatic awareness, embodied practices and community connection to their social justice and systemic change agendas.
During this training participants will discover:
How trauma anatomically affects the nervous system
How to identify trauma symptoms and trigger responses
Tools to promote biological resiliency, self-regulation and resolution
Protocol and best practices in the field
Invitational language
Community building and outreach methods
Ahimsa and the importance of self-care
How to create a safe space
Teaching methods for classrooms, yoga studios, healthcare practitioners, etc
This course can be used as 20 Continuing Education Hours provided by Yoga Alliance - YACEP
Investment:
Equity in Investment – Choosing your tier
Legacy Motion and Ananda Sanctuary are committed to offering trainings, mentorships and opportunities that are of the highest quality, affordable and accessible while striving to keep equity and mutual exchange at the soul of how we serve.
We recognize that we live in systems of inequity and we strive to find ways of finding balance within this. We feel that the deepest engagement and greatest benefit comes when there is a meaningful mutual exchange. For these reasons, we offer tiered pricing. There is an invitation to reflect on your access to resources and privilege, the value of this work, what you can genuinely afford, and what you might pay for comparable training programs. By committing to what is truly within your means you make it possible for others to show up within theirs and we are all grateful for this.
All prices are in SA Rands
TIER 1: R4500.00 – For those who are financially well-resourced and who are able to contribute to our scholarship fund. Reflects the value of the course in Western economic markets.
TIER 2: R3200.00 – For those on medium incomes and access to financial resources who also are able to contribute to our scholarship fund.
TIER 3: R2500.00 – For those on lower incomes with caring responsibilities.
For enquiries, contact healingmotionkw@gmail.com
About Your host: Kirsten Wilkinson
MA, TCTSY-F, E-RYT 500, RCYT, Qi Gong and iRest Certified, Thai Yoga Massage Certified, Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, Mind/Body Practitioner, Breathe to Heal Facilitator Somatic Experiencing Advanced Cohort
Kirsten Wilkinson is the Founder and Executive Director of Legacy Motion. She has over 20 years of experience working with moving bodies, trauma, and building trauma-informed curriculum.
Kirsten has completed various trainings in yoga for specific communities including certifications through YogaEd, The Prison Yoga Project, Off the Mat - into the World, Yoga for Humankind, and Veterans Yoga Project. She has thousands of hours teaching Hot Yoga, Trauma Informed Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Yoga Nida, and yoga for children and teens. She is a Mind/Body Practitioner, which is a 300hr professional certification that blends psychology and somatic therapy modalities. She is also a certified Qi Gong and iRest Facilitator as well as Thai Yoga Massage Certified. She is participating in the 3-year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner professional certification program as well as working towards her Licensure in Clinical Psychology and Dance and Movement Therapy. In 2021 she began her PhD in Somatic Therapy and Psychology and in 2022 began her training in NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model).