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Please Note: This workshop will be delivered online using Zoom. Participants will require a stable internet connection.
20% (£110 saving) discount when booking both this workshop & a Trauma Centre, Trauma Sensitive Yoga 20Hr Foundation Workshop
The body, yoga, mindfulness and neuroscience are themes that dominate contemporary conversations on trauma. These conversations often presume a prior level of expertise or else are so simplified that clinically significant distinctions are lost.
This 5 day workshop is intended to bridge the gap for those without a background in neuroscience or yoga but who wish to understand the current theories on what happens to our brains when we are threatened and how various yoga practices might either help or harm.
The workshop is suitable for:
those offering therapeutic interventions for trauma survivors
yoga teachers wishing to create a more trauma informed practice
those with little or no prior training in neurobiology
those without a yoga/somatic practice
The Yoga Clinic (UK) does not consider those living with the effects of a trauma history, pathologically 'disordered'.
Please note: This program is solely for professional development and is not intended as an intervention for those who have experienced trauma. Talking about trauma, even in the context of an educational program, may be triggering.
Curriculum Overview:
Introduction to Neuroscience & Neurobiology:
The neurological processes by which we come to know and respond to our internal and external world
Interpersonal Safety & Interpersonal Neurobiology:
The neurological processes through which safety is created and experienced
The Effects of Safety - Thriving, Not Just Surviving:
The effects of safety on our cognitive, emotional and biological states
Interpersonal Danger & Interpersonal Neurobiology:
Varieties of danger - interpersonal and non-personal, abuse and neglect, chronic and single incident
The neurological processes through which danger is created and experienced
Surviving Danger:
Fight, Flight, Fawn, Freeze & Dissociation
The neurobiology of our survival mechanisms
The Side Effects of Surviving - Not Thriving:
Neurobiological theories for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, Developmental Trauma, Dissociative Identity Disorders and Personality Disorders
Trauma Sequelae:
Neurobiological theories for the varieties of secondary trauma symptoms, including addiction, self-injurious behaviours, somatisation, foggy thinking and attentional issues, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, autoimmune disorders
Trauma Informed Practices:
Locating distress/locating blame - "what happened to you?" Vs "what is wrong with you?"
Attending to power dynamics and enabling agency
The Spectrum of Trauma Treatments:
Cognitive approaches to trauma processing - limitations and applications
Somatic approaches to trauma processing - limitations and applications
Psychoeducation
Yoga - A Relational Practice for a Relational Brain:
The 8 Limbs of Yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as a psychological practice
Contemporary yoga and secular mindfulness
Yoga and Re-Traumatisation:
Yamas, Niyamas & moral judgement
Asana, Pranayama and physical assists
Meditation and dissociation
Ahimsa/The Hippocratic Oath, Scope of Practice
Yoga for Trauma Survivors:
Trauma Sensitive Yoga - somatic dissociation and embodiment
Trauma Informed Yoga - mindfulness, affect regulation, empowerment
Self-practice and group practices
General yoga classes for trauma survivors
Theoretical Frameworks:
Polyvagal Theory
Attachment Theory
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Classical and Operant Conditioning
Neuroplasticity
Cognitive Neuroscience
The Yoga Sutras
This workshop will be delivered online using Zoom. You will require a stable internet connection.
We will make use of a number of teaching mediums:
Additional pre-recorded content
Seminar style with accompanying slides and handouts
Case histories & lived experience
Teaching examples
Clinical examples
Small and large group brainstorming/discussion - Zoom breakout rooms
Experiential Education - some craft materials will be required; details will be sent out to participants
Teaching Practice - Zoom breakout rooms
Q & A sessions
Expert by Experience/Training, Panel Discussion (as part of an ongoing conversation that is The Critical Yoga Project)
Expert by Experience/Training, Panel Discussion
Friday afternoon - an opportunity for students and the panel to share insights and experiences.
Facilitated by Ulanah Morris.
Panel - Ulanah Morris, Dr Amy Jebreel, Minnie Robinson & Lisa Nkrumah-Mweu.
Ulanah Morris works with The Recovery College, Camden and Islington NHS Trust as a Professional and Peer Recovery Tutor.
“I am responsible for facilitating and co-producing person-centred experiential workshops with vulnerable adults who are on a mental and physical health recovery journey. I also have a private practice as a Mindfulness Facilitator, Spiritual counsellor, Interfaith Minister and Celebrant.
My professional and educational background is in Psychology and Education, Holistic Therapy and Art Therapy (including Breath-work and Rebirthing) and Spiritual Counselling and Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery Training.
Yoga and meditation has been part of my life for many years since I encountered it at 15 years old. I now have a consistent, daily practice of Kundalini Yoga.
Over the years intensive practice has taken me through numerous upheavals and significant moments. The calm, grounded-ness, increased sense of lightness as my consciousness expanded was profound and life-enhancing. Yoga has been a source of peace, healing, empowerment, courage, strength and resilience, and has supported my journey through a world which can be unequal and unjust.
All roads have always led back to Yoga and body-work. Somatic practices have been a deeply transformative tool for support and healing through the traumatic experience of entering the UK as an immigrant and living here as a Black child and woman.
Through Yoga I’ve been enabled to bring courage, calm, compassion and equanimity to the service of my work with vulnerable adults and children with complex needs. I’ve been able to support numerous groups and individuals in realising themselves, finding Light within darkness and living with Hope and a sense of possibility.”
Dr Amy Jebreel is a dual-trained consultant psychiatrist in Old Age and Adult Psychiatry. She is the Consultant Psychiatrist for a Community Mental Health Team in Haringey, which has a specialism in PTSD.
Amy is a clinical lead for a participating team in the national ODDESSI Open Dialogue trial and one of the trials’ Principle Investigators.
Amy is a keen proponent of trauma-informed care and integrative psychiatry. She has a personal meditative practice and is a regular attendee of Gaia House.
Minnie Robinson is a group facilitator and trainer with Talk for Health. Talk for Health is a Camden & Islington social enterprise which democratises and widens access to talk therapy through it’s unique program of peer-to-peer talk therapy.
Minnie has lived in Camden for almost 30yrs. During that time she has raised two sons, worked as a teaching assistant and as a daycare officer for Age UK.
“As someone who has lived experience of Child sex abuse/trauma, Domestic violence & had various Psychiatric labels attached, & too many drugs prescribed.
I feel very strongly about people having a safe space to share their experiences.
Without stigma or judgement.”
Lisa Nkrumah-Mweu has lectured and taught dance at Surrey and Leeds Metropolitan Universities, as well as working as as a dance program coordinator for One Dance UK. Her work with One Dance UK promotes dance of the African Diaspora as a cultural narrative and to open dialogue around issues of identity and misrepresentation.
“Yoga has been a constant for most of my adult life particularly through the social and cultural experiences of growing up as a black Scottish woman living in the UK.
Currently I am working part-time as a supply primary school teacher. I frequently incorporate breath work, movement and yoga sequencing into the timetable. Teaching young children has been tremendously informative to experience and understand the way children process information and express emotion through behaviour and movement.
My academic background and training in dance, culture and education continues to inform my practise and trajectory as a yoga practitioner and my aspirations as a community based teacher.
Over the summer lockdown and as the Black Lives Matter movement swept across the globe I embarked on a yoga teacher training course with BLM Global Rocket Yoga Collective. This experience introduced teaching yoga as an offering to hold space for others and as a site of personal agency, activism and community healing.”
BLM Global Rocket Yoga Collective Cause:
We know all too well what white supremacy looks like within the Yoga Industry, thus we have chosen to embark on the journey of dismantling racism and inequalities in the Yoga Industry for BIPOC…. more
Possible topics:
the experience of mental health service users/service providers, particularly within the NHS
the experience of those with varieties of trauma backgrounds
the experience of those that are from non-white communities/racism as relational trauma
the experience of those that are from non-heterosexual communities/homophobia as relational trauma
trauma informed approaches to chronic and enduring poor mental health including the Open Dialogue approach to psychosis
the role of somatic approaches to mental health & their place in trauma informed care
This panel will be part of an ongoing conversation that is The Critical Yoga Project
Accreditation & Professional Development:
Accredited by The Yoga Clinic (UK): letter of completion
Delivered by The Teaching Faculty, The Trauma Centre: Alexandra Cat
Alexandra Cat holds degrees in Experimental Psychology, (Oxford University) and Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Sussex University).
She is a member of the teaching faculty for The Trauma Centre's (Boston, USA) program in Trauma Sensitive Yoga and is a regular guest lecturer on a variety of NHS Medical Education Programs.
Alex has worked as a yoga teacher since 2001. She offers trauma informed yoga practices for trauma survivors - The Yoga Clinic (UK).
Please see here for Alex's full resume.
TIMETABLE DETAILS
Each day will run from 10:00 - 16:30, including a mid morning, lunch and mid afternoon break
Students will be booking for the whole 5 days.
Booking Details
Non-Bursary Places:
There are 3 booking options.
UK Bookings - £550
UK Bookings when also booking a 20Hr TCTSY - £440
International Bookings - £560*
*International students are asked to pay an extra £10 to cover a currency processing fee.
Bursary Places:
Six bursary places are available.
2 x £250 places reserved for those who identify as LGBTQI
2 x £250 places reserved for those identifying as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic
2 x £100 places reserved for those employed as Peer Workers within mental health services
These places are for people who fulfil all of the following criteria:
LGBTQI and/or Black, Asian, Ethnic Minority and/or those employed as Peer Workers within mental health services
residing in the UK
making your payment from a sterling (£) account.
would not otherwise be able to afford to attend the workshop - priority is given to those in receipt of benefits and/or peer workers
Applications for a bursary place must be submitted by Saturday Oct 24th 2020.
Successful applicants will be notified of their offer by Saturday Oct 31st 2020.Offers will be made to eligible candidates on a first come, first served basis.
Payment Plans:
Payment plans for UK & bursary places will be available. Because each instalment will incur an international processing fee, we do not offer a payment plan for non-sterling (£) accounts
Please note: The Yoga Clinic (UK) does not consider those living with the effects of a trauma history, pathologically 'disordered'.
This program is solely for professional development and is not intended as an intervention for those who have experienced trauma. Talking about trauma, even in the context of an educational program, may be triggering.