Trauma Aware Yoga

Trauma Aware Yoga Trauma Sensitive Yoga runs workshops for yoga teachers and mental health clinicians around trauma informed practices.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga Australia (TSYA) was established to support and educate yoga teachers and mental health clinicians in their work with clients who are in recovery from trauma. Based on the work of Bessel van der Kolk and Dave Emmerson, TSYA run workshops in Australia and New Zealand to empower practitioners to operate from a trauma informed perspective when working with clients on a one to one basis or in a group.

Stephen porges on polyvagal theory
25/03/2024

Stephen porges on polyvagal theory

Vagus Nerve Secrets REVEALED: Discover how to feel safe with the groundbreaking creator of the Polyvagal Theory, Dr. Stephen Porges!Dr. Porges helps us answe...

YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE WORKSHOP- MAY 24 11.30amIn this 90 minute, highly experiential workshop Shirley will open ...
08/03/2024

YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE WORKSHOP- MAY 24 11.30am

In this 90 minute, highly experiential workshop Shirley will open your awareness to what your nervous system might be telling you and how to best respond to it through choosing the right movement and breath strategy to effectively respond. If you find you have problems sleeping, your emotions are unpredictable and you’re fed up of putting up with emotional discomfort you might leave this workshop with a more useful gameplan to develop the emotional resilience that is possible for everyone. Informative, practical and fun the only thing you need to bring is you.
https://www.trybooking.com/CPXXO

Let's give children the best start possibleMIndfulness Based Childbirth & Parenting The next MBCP Teacher Training is sc...
02/02/2024

Let's give children the best start possible
MIndfulness Based Childbirth & Parenting
The next MBCP Teacher Training is scheduled to begin on March 7, 2024. This comprehensive 10-month program is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and understanding necessary to teach mindfulness-based practices to expectant parents and families, fostering a grounded and compassionate approach to childbirth and parenting.

The benefit of bottom up work when working with trauma
08/12/2023

The benefit of bottom up work when working with trauma

We've been working on this for over a decade - so happy to be able to share it. Amazing team!! https://lnkd.in/ehPQ6Bmv

29/11/2023

Early Bird closes January 2024 -
https://www.shirleyhicks.com.au/therapeutic-resilience-trauma-sensitive-yoga
"Shirley's knowledge and experience in trauma informed care is a powerful reminder of how important reconnecting with ourselves can not only change the lives of ourselves but our clients"
"This training has given me so much new valuable material to with with- not just with clients but also in myself in my professional and private life"
"This workshop needs to be an annual practice of self care for community sector workers. It was so useful to think about PRESENCE for our clients and ourselves and the components of that. Shirley has so much knowledge and experience... everything felt very grounded in practice"

Something to add to your reading pile?
08/09/2022

Something to add to your reading pile?

Introducing the first edition of the Mental Health Matters magazine by The Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association. Read now online.

Here is a great personal reflection recently published in Psychiatry Online about how finding yoga supported the writer ...
07/09/2022

Here is a great personal reflection recently published in Psychiatry Online about how finding yoga supported the writer when dealing with their depression. Just a content warning that the writer does reflect on her relationship with Su***de. If this article does create concerns please contact Lifeline on 131114.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Personal AccountsFull AccessMy Secret LoverCherryl Jensen, Cherryl JensenSearch for more papers by this author, Published Online:6 Sep 2022https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220368AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrac...

I'm happy to announce that Bookings are Now Open for the 3 day Therapeutic Resilience & Trauma Sensitive Yoga Workshop f...
28/07/2022

I'm happy to announce that Bookings are Now Open for the 3 day Therapeutic Resilience & Trauma Sensitive Yoga Workshop for Mental Health and Allied Health Professionals. This is an enhanced and revised version of the Yoga & Traumatised Body Workshop. For further information and bookings please check it out here
https://www.shirleyhicks.com.au/therapeutic-resilience-trauma-sensitive-yoga

Hope to see you on the Gold Coast in November.

LOOKING FOR AN ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR YOGA TEACHERS?Did you know that over 80% of yoga students report practi...
27/06/2022

LOOKING FOR AN ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR YOGA TEACHERS?
Did you know that over 80% of yoga students report practicing yoga for mental health reasons?
Especially with the past two years we’ve all just had, it’s more important than EVER to support our students’ mental health.
My wish is for ALL Yoga Teachers to understand mental health. It’s THAT important.
If you’re keen to show up more fully for your students experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma and stress, then do sign up for the Mental Health Aware Yoga training with Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher, Dr Lauren Tober.

It’s a brilliant training (and they’ll even send you some Consent Tokens in the post when you sign up!).

Sign up here: https://shala.laurentober.com/~access/a3c4586f/

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Varsity Lakes, QLD
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Trauma Sensitive Yoga Australia is committed to expanding the awareness of trauma sensitive practices within the traditional yoga class format, as well as supporting mental health clinicians to integrate trauma informed yoga practices into their work. Our workshops are designed to enhance the skills of yoga teachers and mental health clinicians and other allied health professionals, when working with clients in trauma recovery. We are now in our seventh year of offering these workshops to the Australian therapeutic community. The training provided by Trauma Sensitive Yoga Australia is a distillation of all the current research in the area of trauma recovery, utilising yoga and other body based interventions, all aimed to inform and to enhance the practitioner’s clinical response when supporting clients in trauma recovery. These workshops are inspired by the latest research of Bessel van der Kolk (Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga -TCTSY), David Emerson (TCTSY), Judith Herman (Trauma and Recovery), Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy) , Peter Levine (Somatic Re-experiencing), Richard Miller(i-Rest Yoga Nidra) and Steven Porges (Polyvagal Theory). As we are independent to any of these authors and their respective training organisations , it allows us to present in our programs what we believe is clinically most relevant without having to operate within any one particular model. Our workshops are not a replacement for any of the professional development programs that may be facilitated by any of these clinicians. Our workshops are an integration of all that we consider is the latest evidence on the most effective way to work with clients in trauma recovery. These workshops have arisen out of what we have found really works with our clients. Our workshops are highly experiential, as we figure you can always read the book. This program has been designed to build a solid trauma informed foundation which may allow for further exploration of trauma informed principles and practices, depending on the interests of each participant.