TRAUMA SUPPORTIVE YOGA SPACES
The Teacher’s Course
Offer Solace.
Support Resilience.
Empower Growth.
Ready to deepen the impact of your yoga spaces on the lives of those you teach?
Grow your competence, enrich your teaching, and bring new depth to your classes with this transformative four-month course.
Designed to foster competence and maturity in your teaching, this immersive and experiential learning journey is built to develop confidence, proficiency, and empowered trauma-informed practices.
Participants in this course grow and learn together over several months. Sign up for our mailing list to get updates on joining our next cohort.
What to Expect
Dive Deeper with
Process-Based Teaching
Go beyond asana as you explore teaching frameworks founded on yoga’s traditional healing processes. You’ll explore trauma theories from both yoga’s philosophical traditions and Western psychology, and foster competence in applying those theories to your teaching. Throughout the course, you’ll develop and evolve your personal theory of change - an embodied philosophy of how yoga works and how you can harness those processes in your teaching.
Build Confidence with
Hands-On Learning
Engage with rich self-inquiry and embodied skill-building through guided personal reflections, group discussions, and experiential learning exercises. By understanding your own responses to trauma, you’ll cultivate greater empathy and authenticity in holding space for others. Throughout the course, you’ll also engage in practice-teaching exercises, receiving constructive feedback from instructors and peers, empowering you to integrate trauma-supportive principles into your yoga classes.
Ground In
Skillful Space Holding
Developed and led by a licensed psychotherapist and experienced yoga teacher, this training is lovingly designed to support you in the self-inquiry and experiential growth at the foundation of competent, compassionate space holding. We won’t stop at trauma-informed - we’ll also practice integrating that knowledge so that you can tend artful, healing-supportive spaces.
Grow in Community
Yoga teaching and trauma recovery are both deeply relational - this course provides the opportunity to experience the power of relational learning first hand. Spend four months growing and learning with a cohort, first online, then building deep relationships and engaging in experiential growth. You’ll leave a part of a community of like-minded individuals dedicated to trauma-informed practices, encouraging your growth and providing ongoing resources even after the course ends.
Meet Our Experienced Facilitators
Jessie horness,
MA, LPC, ERYT-200
The Founder and Lead facilitator of Haven School of Yoga, Jessie is a community builder, loving friend, and thoughtfully practicing psychotherapist. She has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for over 15 years, and a student of Angela Jamison for the last decade. Previously, Jessie studied and assisted under R. Saraswati Jois whose firm voice in the back of her head grounds her teaching in tradition and integrity. She's committed to walking the talk, a teacher dedicated to thoughtful hard conversations, empowering deep dives, and healthy irreverent humor. Bring a sharp pencil and thoughtful mind. Jessie is here to foster your self-development, build your confidence, and advance your yoga teaching to an elevated level.
Britt Unsei Wildfong,
LMT, SEP, RYT
Unsei is a seasoned practitioner and educator with over 20 years of experience in embodied healing. She offers a steady presence that allows students to explore their journeys with confidence, while her knowledge of the body-mind ensures an approach rooted in compassion and care.
Britt has been shaped by her own experiences with trauma, and holds an innate desire to help others find their way toward embodied liberation. When not seeing clients or facilitating groups, you can find her creating beauty, reading (speculative fiction or nerdy body/mind books), or walking in the woods with a friend.
Danielle DePOmPei,
Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Health Counselor
Danielle is an experienced yoga teacher and practitioner, the Founder and Director of Ashtanga Yoga Lakewood, and an Ayurvedic Health Counselor. In addition to over 15 years of dedicated yoga practice, her training includes deep study with Sharath Jois in India, thousands of hours of continuing education in Ayurveda and yogic philosophy, and ongoing mentorship with Angela Jamison and Susan Bass.
Danielle blends the depth of Ashtanga with the wisdom of Ayurveda, offering students a holistic approach to practice both on and off the mat. She is committed to creating a space where students can engage in meaningful self-inquiry, cultivate discipline, and experience personal transformation. Beyond teaching, Danielle enjoys studying, cooking, trips to the beach, and fostering connection within her community, family and friends.
Take the Next Vinyasa
In Your Teaching Practice
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