TRAUMA SENSITIVE MINDFUL MOVEMENT TRAINING

Trauma Sensitive Mindful Movement Training 

NEW DATES OFFERED in AUGUST AND OCTOBER 2024 *online 15 hr course

TRAUMA SENSITIVE MINDFUL MOVEMENT training is for teachers/facilitators of movement, such as yoga teachers, pilates teachers, fitness instructors, therapists, school teachers and MBSR teachers, meditation teachers, Allied health care professionals, Doctors, psychologists and individuals who wish to learn more about living with trauma and how they may start to heal.

Our courses and international teacher training’s are facilitated by world class, highly skilled and experienced national and international teachers and educators. See our latest offerings below or visit our home page for all the latest yoga teacher training,  courses and events. 

During our online and/or in person training’s you will learn to better understand what trauma is, how it differentiates from everyday stress, how it changes the brain and body and how trauma sensitive mindful movement can help.

COURSE DATES  – AUGUST AND OCTOBER 2024

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Begins Mondays – August 12, 19th and 26th and Sept 2nd 2024, 5:00pm till 8:00pm UTC +1 *UK timezone, 3 hrs per week *plus additional 3 hours home practice

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Begins Tuesdays 15th, 22nd and 29th, October and 5th Nov  5:00pm – 8:30pm UTC +1 *UK timezone, 3 hrs per week *plus additional 3 hours home practice 

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Timeframes: 4 x 3 hour sessions

Where: Anywhere in the world (online via zoom)

COST: €330 

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Training Description and Course Outline

Your investment includes:
Manual x 1
7 x Mindful Movement Practices (video’s)
Lecturers/workshops (12 hours) live and 3 hours home practice
Ongoing support and mentoring (total 15 hrs CEC’s)

This course is for:

Mindfulness teachers
Yoga and movement teachers

Pilates teachers

Psychologists

Fitness Instructors
School teachers
Therapists and Allied health care workers

OR Individuals who wish to learn more about living with trauma

The words Trauma, Trauma Sensitive and Trauma Informed have become much more prominent over the past 5 years, often the word Trauma is misunderstood and perceived as something that only happens to a small portion of our population. This is however not true. This 15 hour course provides you with in-depth research, latest understandings of trauma, neurosciences and mindfulness.

This training provides teachers of movement with a solid understanding of what trauma is and how it affects each of us uniquely, learning how to offer a trauma informed session or class for your participants in a safe and supportive manner. Learning how to weave mindfulness and key language skills into your sessions to support self-regulation during classes.

As we learn more about mind – body connection we have discovered the importance of the fascial body and its infinite connections with the brain. How we FEEL emotionally and physically has a profound effect on how we MOVE, how we THINK and RESPOND also has an overall effect on our movement. If we have suffered a trauma or are living with trauma our bodies will adapt and change in order to ‘cope’ or ‘regulate’ the associated trauma held in the fascial/neural body.

During these workshops you will learn how to weave IA (interoceptive awareness) and proprioceptive cues into your classes that are considerate and mindful of trauma making movement accessible and inclusive, supporting people with PTSD as well as those living with everyday kinds of stress.

Those leaving this training will gain a sound understanding of the underpinning aspects of trauma, as well as the foundations of Mindfulness and the principles of introducing agency and permission through your guidance. You will learn how to adapt and modify movement that is functional whilst providing trauma sensitive cues and language ◇ BASED on current and latest research studies and David Treleven’s Trauma Sensitive teachings, providing a supportive and inclusive space for your student’s and communities.
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YOUR TEACHER
Monique is an international yoga, Pilates teacher and mindfulness coach and author of the popular E-BOOK – 7 days of Mindfulness: Self Healing Through Mindfulness and Movement Practices, change is possible.

Monique’s most recent role of the past 12 years has allowed her as creator and business owner of Synergy Yoga and Pilates to share the power of mindfulness and movement with communities far and wide. Having taught over 5000 hours of movement and completed 1500 hours in training in various styles of yoga and Pilates.

Monique has integrated her past work experiences and studies in Behavioural and Social Sciences as a Youth Worker, Mental Health Support Worker, Addictions Counsellor, Lecturer in Adult Education and Co-morbidity with her experience of guiding yoga, Pilates, movement and Mindfulness. Monique is also a teacher for the global enterprise app @Wellness.coach, providing private coaching as well as group meditation and movement sessions.

Monique is a qualified teacher and facilitator of the popular 8-week Mindfulness Course MBSR or otherwise known as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Endorsed by Jon Kabat Zinn and The University of Massachusetts. Monique completed TR1, TR2 and TR3 with The Mindful Academy at Solterreno Retreat Centre in Spain.

LEARNING THEMES AND OUTCOMES

• What is Mindfulness and Mindful Movement?
• What does it mean to be Trauma Sensitive
• The role of the Whole Network – fascinating Fascia
• Emotion in Motion – 6^th and 7^th Senses
• Guiding with awareness
• Best practices – providing safety and support
• Practice session
• What is Trauma and how does it affect us
• Window of tolerance and self-regulation
• Signals of trauma
• Keeping participants safe via language, cues and agency
• Integrating relevant conditions that include trauma sensitive practices and accessibility
• Best practices for teaching trauma sensitive mindful movement
• Practice sessions
• Foundations of Mindful Movement
• Body, thoughts and emotions – Attention
• Integrating the Attitudes
• Weaving intentional mindfulness cues and language into your classes
• Best practices review
• Practice sessions and teaching

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the conclusion of these session’s participants will:

• Understand how to provide accessible,  creative, supportive, trauma informed and heartfelt mindful movement session both online and in person
• Have foundational understanding of best practices for teaching students of all shapes, sizes and ability, providing movement that is functional and accessible
• Have an understanding how to adapt and modify movement according to student’s needs and providing safe and supportive conditions for those who may have experienced trauma at some point in their lives.
• Have an understanding how to teach students both online and in person with clear cues and guidance that are trauma sensitive – keeping your people safe
• Implement guidance that provides interoceptive and proprioceptive cues
• Have an understanding of how to integrate the foundations of mindfulness into class led session

Feel confident to teach mindful movement to meet a range of student needs that include:

• Trauma sensitivities, best practices and accessibility
• Injury
• Aches and Pains
• Offer functional movement classes
• Offer invitational cues and agency that provide trauma sensitive options and inclusive for all attending
• Online and in person
• Weaving in the foundations of mindfulness during classes – IAA

This course accrues requirements 15 CECs for YACEP Yoga Alliance USA

Please note this course does not qualify you to become a ‘Trauma therapist/specialist” nor a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher (TTSY) or certified a mindfulness teacher. The course is designed to provide you with information so that you are better equipped to be able to provide trauma sensitive sessions and practices that are inclusive for your community and participants. This course may be a pathway to ongoing studies in trauma and mindfulness trainings such as MBSR or MBCT or EFT

PATHWAYS– 8 week MBSR course, MBSR TTR1 and TTR2 teacher training courses, yoga teachers with 200 hours
An extensive manual is also included as well as 4 x 3 hr sessions and pre- recorded mindful movement practices.

STUDENT TESTIMONIES

Learning more about how trauma affects our nervous system, behaviours and connective tissues And interoception and proprioception even though I have learnt these concepts before myself, I feel they are very important for the content of the course….Megan….

It exceeded my expectations…. Charlotte…

A good mix of both intellectual information and somatic experience of what we were discussing, I loved the lectures and I loved the practices and also the opportunity through the you tubes links to practice in my own time….Melanie Mclaughin – The Yin Space

The course was wonderful and delivered more than expected……Sarah…

You are really authentic and passionate about the subject wanted to give us as much as you could. I really enjoyed it and it was very well presented….Karen....

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For more information please email Monique Leverington synergyyogapilates@gmail.com