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.

This 4 month course is offered with bi-weekly online sessions culminating in a 3 day in-person seminar in Ann Arbor Mi.

BEGINS AUGUST 23

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.

The Details

  • This hybrid course is taught in five online sessions followed by an immersive three-day in-person experience. In between sessions, you’ll engage in guided research and reflection to integrate what you’ve learned. Community discussion takes place in a dedicated Google Chat space to support you on your journey between in-person meetings.

  • Our online sessions will take place on the following Saturdays:

    August 23, 2025 10am-1pm
    September 6, 2025, 10am-12pm
    September 20, 2025, 10am-12pm
    October 4, 2025, 10am-12pm
    October 18, 2025, 10am-1pm

    We’ll meet in person:

    November 7, 2025 11am-5pm
    November 8, 2025 11am-5pm
    November 9, 2025 11am-2pm

  • We employ an economic justice pricing structure to support accessibility for everyone, regardless of their financial situation.  With our unique pricing approach, you have the flexibility to choose a payment option that aligns with your current circumstances. We trust you to select a rate that feels right for you. This way, we can maintain the quality of  the course while ensuring that anyone who wishes to participate can do so without hesitation.

    Recommended investment for this four-month course is as follows:

    Abundance - $1600 - Choose this option if your needs are met comfortably and you have expendable income to support access for others.

    Sustenance - $1200 - Choose this option if your needs are met and you can reasonably pay for this course with some budgeting.

    Sustainability - $800 - Choose this option if you are feeling economic strain.

    You are welcome to make payment in four monthly installments of $200-400. Simply select the “installment plan” option at sign up.

    Individuals needing further financial support to access this training are encouraged to reach out. We especially invite members of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities to reach out and inquire about our available financial support options.

  • In person meetings will take place at Ashtanga Yoga: Ann Arbor in downtown Ann Arbor, MI.

  • This course is facilitated by an E-RYT 200 and Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider. Those who complete this course will be eligible for 30 Yoga Alliance CEUs.

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