MISTY 2024 - Trauma Aware Yoga in Weekly Classes

Overview

Regardless if a trauma is considered as big or small, the experience is personal and only the one who lived it can know what the experience leaves them feeling.

In this course, recorded at the 2024 Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga (MISTY), Erin will guide you in how to help others reduce the harmful effects of trauma and improve well-being in self and students.

There is a practical part of this session where you will experiment with new ways to bring a variety of benefits to your personal practice, clients or classes.


Learning Objectives

In this online course, you will:

1. Understand strategies to protect trauma survivors’ whole-person safety.

2. Apply best practices and avoid common mistakes.

3. Explore postures, breath work, relaxations, visualizations & neurobiological strategies.

4. Experience a range of effective practices you can use now to rewire the brain away from traumatic habits.  
5. Navigate the 3 stages of trauma recovery.
   

Presenter Bio: Erin Byron, MA, RP, C-IAYT

Erin Byron is a Registered Psychotherapist who has co/authored several books in the field of mental and physical health. Erin is the founder of Trauma Aware Certified Training and co-founder of Comprehensive Yoga Therapist Training. When not swimming or playing clarinet, Erin offers professional education, clinical supervision, and therapy.

Erin's Published numerous books on Yoga Therapy - Yoga for the Creative Soul: Exploring the Five Paths of Yoga to Reclaim Your Expressive Spirit by Erin Byron;
Yoga Therapy for Arthritis: A Whole-Person Approach to Movement and Lifestyle by Dr. Steffany Moonaz, Erin Byron, et al.;
Yoga Therapy for Stress and Anxiety: Create a Personalized Holistic Plan to Balance Your Life by Robert Butera, Erin Byron, et al.;
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living: Awareness & Meditation Practices for Living in the Present Moment by Michael Bernard Beckwith, Erin Byron, William L. Mikulas, et al. www.ErinByron.com

Audience

This course is for anyone who works with trauma survivors.

If you are a yoga therapist, this course will give you tools to incorporate mind and body movements into your practice. If you are a mental health professional, this course will give you movement and breath awareness to accompany your talk therapy work.