Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Built for trauma survivors — by clinicians, researchers, and survivors. The flagship program of Center for Trauma and Embodiment.

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The Original

Yoga forTrauma

TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga is the world’s first and only yoga-based intervention for complex trauma and PTSD that has been found to be as effective as talk therapy through twenty years of original research.

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Training That

Transforms

Experiences of psychological trauma profoundly change our relationship with our body. TCTSY works by restoring a felt sense of safety in the body through our embodied, collaborative approach to healing that utilizes yoga forms and the power of authenticity and presence.

Introductory Course

Check out our online introduction to the essential elements of TCTSY, presented by TCTSY co-founders Dave Emerson and Jenn Turner.

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Foundational Training

Offered online and in-person in 10 languages by licensed trainers around the world, this training supports providers in becoming trauma-informed.

Certification Program

Offered entirely online, study and practice in collaboration with mentors and other trainees around the world to become a certified TCTSY facilitator.

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Our trainings combine decades of original research and evidence-based studies with contemporary perspectives on equity, intersectionality, and trauma care.

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Our trainings combine decades of original research and evidence-based studies with contemporary perspectives on equity, intersectionality, and trauma care.

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Worldwide Healing Potential

With 800 actively certified facilitators in over 50 nations & territories, TCTSY strives to be a cross-cultural model for body-based treatment.

40,000

People served each year through our worldwide network of certified facilitators

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Refugees

In collaboration with community leaders in refugee communities in Lebanon and the West Bank, dozens of women and children are participating in TCTSY to help them manage trauma in the midst of ongoing conflicts and displacement.

Veterans

From the VA hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, to a groundbreaking research project in collaboration with the VAs in Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, Oregon, we have been called to provide care to those who serve.

Become a Certified Facilitator

The TCTSY Certification Program is an in-depth, 28-week training. Offered 100% online, the material prepares candidates to become fully certified TCTSY Facilitators. Certified Facilitators gain access to continuing education, ongoing mentorship, and a global community of peers.

We are also accredited by Yoga Alliance as an RYS 300. Social workers are eligible for 26.5 CEUs with ASWB.

Prior to applying for the Certification Program, potential candidates are required to complete any one of our 20-hour Foundational Trainings, offered both online and in-person, in ten languages around the world.

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Certification Program

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Built for trauma survivors — by clinicians, researchers, and survivors. The flagship program of Center for Trauma and Embodiment.

TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga is the world’s first and only yoga-based intervention for complex trauma and PTSD that has been found to be as effective as talk therapy through twenty years of original research.

Transforms

Experiences of psychological trauma profoundly change our relationship with our body. TCTSY works by restoring a felt sense of safety in the body through our embodied, collaborative approach to healing that utilizes yoga forms and the power of authenticity and presence.

Introductory Course

CEUs: Yoga Alliance (5)

Foundational Training

CEUs: Yoga Alliance (20), IAYT (18)

Certification Program

CEUs: Yoga Alliance 300-hour RYS, ASWB (26.5)

Our trainings combine decades of original research and evidence-based studies with contemporary perspectives on equity, intersectionality, and trauma care.

Our trainings combine decades of original research and evidence-based studies with contemporary perspectives on equity, intersectionality, and trauma care.

Worldwide Healing Potential

With 800 actively certified facilitators in over 50 nations & territories, TCTSY strives to be a cross-cultural model for body-based treatment.

40,000

People served each year through our worldwide network of certified facilitators

Refugees

Veterans

Become a Certified Facilitator

The TCTSY Certification Program is an in-depth, 28-week training. Offered 100% online, the material prepares candidates to become fully certified TCTSY Facilitators. Certified Facilitators gain access to continuing education, ongoing mentorship, and a global community of peers.

We are also accredited by Yoga Alliance as an RYS 300. Social workers are eligible for 26.5 CEUs with ASWB.

Prior to applying for the Certification Program, potential candidates are required to complete any one of our 20-hour Foundational Trainings, offered both online and in-person, in ten languages around the world.

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