ABOUT THE TRAINING

This 50-hour advanced online training is for qualified yoga teachers and mental health professionals who have some experience with yoga, focusing on Yoga for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and Body Image. The self-led program includes five comprehensive modules, which you can complete in your own time over 12 months.

The curriculum includes: 

• Module 1: Teaching Yoga for Trauma
• Module 2 Understanding the Impact of Shadow, Spiritual Bypassing + Integrating Social Justice and Yoga
• Module 3: The How of Teaching Yoga for Anxiety and Depression
• Module 4: Yoga for Body Image + Understanding Body Privilege
• Module 5: Program Design + Therapeutic Presence + Guidelines for 1:1 Sessions + Trauma-Aware Facilitation Skills

The program offers: 

• 180+ page comprehensive training manual
• Yoga, pranayama and grounding practices in each module
• 15+ hours of in-depth lectures, talks and discussions
• Reflective journaling guides and diverse practices to integrate your learning
• 3 hours of pre-recorded live group mentoring for each module, from a previous group, where we dive more deeply into the content, answer questions, and explore the yoga principles and practices further as a group
• Monthly audio Q+A sessions where your questions will be addressed in-depth.

Also included:

• Certificate of completion for 50 hours of Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, awarded upon completion of all modules
  
  
• Optional priority access to Sarah's Small Group Mentoring 12-month program, exclusively offered for graduates of this training.
  
  

Ongoing Support & Monthly Audio Q&A

The training is self-guided, with support woven in as you move through it.

Throughout your 12-month access period, you are invited to submit questions at any time. Once per month, Sarah records a long-form audio Q&A, responding in depth to the questions that have arisen across the group.

Each monthly audio is accompanied by a PDF with time stamps, so you can:

• Listen to the full conversation across themes and questions
• Easily navigate directly to your own question when it is addressed

The responses provided are thoughtful, contextual and grounded in real-world teaching and clinical complexity - offering a sense of ongoing dialogue and guidance as different layers of the work land over time.

All Q&A audios are downloadable, allowing you to return to them as companions in your learning.

AM I ELIGIBLE TO ENROL?

The training is designed for yoga teachers who genuinely want to feel confident and equipped to offer more specialised support to their students, but are unsure how to refine their teaching skills to be most sensitive to working with complex and vulnerable situations and communities.

The training is also open to mental and allied health professionals with a personal yoga practice, and yoga teachers-in-training.

A certification of minimum 200-hours yoga teaching is recommended to attend the course, but not required.

NOTE: Those without the required qualification are welcome to undertake this training for personal or professional interest. Please note that completion of the course does not provide eligibility or professional insurance to teach public yoga classes based solely on this 50-hour training.

Are you among this community of teachers or mental health professionals? Then this course is tailored specifically to train you in these areas so you can feel confident and clear in your approach to mental health, trauma, and body image, in your teaching and other areas of work. 

The training is designed to support personal reflection, engagement through diverse learning methods, and ongoing integration of the material.

What Graduates Are Saying...

"DO IT!!! If you have a passion to incorporate yoga for trauma, mental health or body image into your teaching or practice, Sarah's training is for you. EXCEPTIONALLY facilitated. Sarah is incredibly open, honest and forthcoming in her wealth of knowledge, wisdom and experience." Carla Vrins

"This course was awesome. Sarah created an incredibly safe space for learning. The information was delivered with authenticity and honesty. Plenty of rest breaks and options to opt-in or opt-out if things felt too much at any time. Sarah is a pioneer!" Lisa

"For anyone thinking about doing this training I say - DO IT! It was such a wonderful, deep, immersive 4-days. Sarah is an incredibly calm, generous and intuitive teacher - very inspiring to me as a teacher. I've learned so many things I can now share in my classes to come from a more inclusive and trauma-informed way towards everyone who attends." Kerri Pietsch

"OMG! What a truly incredible and amazing experience with inspiring content and an incredible group of dedicated yoga teachers whom I'm so privileged to learn with. You definitely won't be disappointed by this awesome opportunity to learn incredibly important content about the work we do as yoga teachers. Thank you Sarah. You bring such knowledge and compassion to the way you explain everything. The whole training was shared with such practical examples that were easy to understand and integrate. An unforgettable experience." Aimee

"Sarah is very well read and has a wealth of yoga and mental health teaching experience. She has a kind and warm approach along with a passion for sharing knowledge on social justice and body image. She is a wealth of knowledge and a wonderful role model! She gives to the subject/training her heart and soul! I'm leaving the training feeling inspired to be even more committed to bring about change and awareness of mental health, trauma and body image through yoga. Amazing training!" Kai

"Sarah is a melody of embodied presence. You rarely come across a yoga teacher who walks that much talk. It feels like I have been openly embraced by ideas that were so close to me I didn't see them, until this course gave me permission. These topics are close to my heart and were delivered like a feast that might last forever." Kendra Boone