with Keri Sawyer

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Dates:

Friday, January 31, 2025, 5:30-8:30pm

Saturday, February 1, 2025, 9:30am-4:30pm

Sunday, February 2, 2025, 9:30am-4:30pm

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Registration:

This training will be entirely virtual. Join us online from anywhere! The virtual training will be live streamed via Zoom. Participants will receive the Zoom link approximately one hour prior to the start of the training each day.

 

Please register and pay for just the first date of the training. One Yoga will add participants to the subsequent dates.

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Register here.

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About the Training:

Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is a unique intervention based on the robust research that is a program of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment. It has become a leading evidence-based adjunct treatment for complex trauma.

 

This training with field expert and mode creator, Keri Sawyer, is designed to empower 

practitioners of many disciplines to create embodied, trauma-sensitive environments to meet the communities they serve.

 

Based on over 20 years of research, collaboration, and direct care, our model of trauma-sensitive yoga (TCTSY) has helped thousands of people dealing with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex, relational trauma—from military veterans to survivors of chronic abuse and neglect.

 

Through lecture, small group work, and guided practice, this 20-hr workshop explores:

 

• The latest trauma theories, neurophysiology, and impacts of systemic trauma

• Theoretical underpinnings and methodology of TCTSY

• An in-depth look at studies involving TCTSY

• Exploration of how power and privilege impact your work

• Opportunities to practice the material

 

Although TCTSY employs physical forms and movements, the focus is on the internal experience of the participant–what the forms feel like instead of what they look like. This shift in orientation, from the external to the internal, is a key attribute of TCTSY as a complementary treatment for complex trauma. With this approach, the power resides with the individual, not the TCTSY facilitator. Further, by focusing on the felt sense of the body to inform choice-making, TCTSY provides opportunities for participants to restore their connection between mind and body, and to cultivate a sense of agency that is often compromised as a result of surviving trauma.

 

This training is designed for social workers, activists, mental health clinicians, yoga teachers, educators, and other health care professionals who are looking to deepen their understanding of the whole-system impact of complex, intersectional trauma. There are no prerequisites to take this workshop. All are welcome.

This weekend training qualifies as the prerequisite for the 300-hour Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) certification program. (i.e., this training is not a certification but satisfies the requirement for participation in the 300-hour Yoga Alliance-approved TCTSY certification program).

 

Your Investment:

$350 for a 3-day training

 

Scholarship Opportunities:

We have scholarship opportunities available for this training for BIPOC folx and for whom cost is a barrier. Please contact james@one-yoga.org for more information on scholarship assistance. One Yoga remains committed to providing access to high quality yoga offerings for all, regardless of financial situation.

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Payment plans are also available. Please email james@one-yoga.org to discuss payment plan options.

 

Giving Opportunities:

We are also providing an opportunity for those who have resources and privilege to assist with covering costs for those who are experiencing financial hardship. The scale is based on your self-determined access to resources, privilege, and social capital. In your self-determination, please consider your global positionality of privilege. Those with access to social capital will also support scholarship for those without access.

• 3-Day TCTSY Training plus $50 contribution to scholarships: $400

• 3-Day TCTSY Training plus $100 contribution to scholarships: $450

• 3-Day TCTSY Training plus $200 contribution to scholarships: $550

 

About the Instructor:

Keri Sawyer has over a decade of experience facilitating movement and breath practices, embodiment, and trauma-informed practices. She is a seasoned speaker and facilitator who has trained thousands of people as an experienced 500-hour yoga teacher and licensed Trainer with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment.

 

Keri provides Trauma Sensitive Yoga to trauma survivors of all ages, facilitates trainings for yoga teachers and healthcare workers, and provides research-based information and trauma-informed treatment practices to the therapeutic world. She oversees the implementation of trauma-informed practices into therapeutic models in clinical and residential treatment programs across the country along with agency trainings and regular consultation.

 

Her passion is to provide an opportunity for survivors of trauma to have an authentic experience with a safe and predictable felt sense of their body along with spreading awareness of trauma-informed practices.

 

Keri is the owner of Openview Yoga, Somatic Director of the Developmental Trauma Training Institute, and The Trainer Liaison for the Center for Trauma and Embodiment where she supports, builds community, and communicates with the training team. Keri is also the Co-Director of Training for the Namapsa Foundations, a nonprofit group that brings yoga into areas of Central Oregon that need it most.

 

Keri specializes in training and facilitating Trauma Sensitive Yoga, yoga for mental health, and therapeutic yoga. She also coaches new and advanced yogis and yoga teachers in deepening their personal practice or exploring teaching practices, workshops, and business. Keri is a 200-hour and 500-hour teacher trainer and loves working with others as they explore teaching yoga.