Self-Paced Online 200-Hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training

Pre-application requirements

While prior yoga experience is beneficial, the training is open to all levels. Both beginners and advanced practitioners will gain valuable insights, experience personal growth, and acquire the skills necessary to confidently teach yoga. You will also need stable internet connection and Zoom account.

Certifications

Students who complete their training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

How the training works

The program includes a self-paced course on Mighty Networks and four live Zoom calls on four Saturdays with the creators of School Yoga Institute’s trauma-informed programming, Jeanine Talento and Brooke Alexander. There will be one live Zoom call at the beginning of the course, two throughout the course, and one at the end of the course. Attending all four live Zoom calls is highly recommended to get the most out of this self-paced course and for certificate requirements. These sessions are specifically designed for integration, community building, and Q&A.

Upon admission to the program, you will be granted a personalized account on School Yoga Institute’s Mighty Networks platform and will have free access to the totality of what they offer as a yoga school throughout the duration of your training. Part of the graduation requirements for this course are to participate in ten live classes on Mighty Networks. This can be daily asana classes, meditation classes, etc, that they offer.

Timing of sessions (GMT-7 / GMT-8)

Winter training: November 8, 2025 - February 7, 2026

• 07:00 - 11:00 Saturday (November 8 and December 6, 2025 and January 3 and February 7, 2026)

Summer training: June 13 - September 12, 2026

• 07:00 - 11:00 Saturday (June 13, July 11, August 8, and September 12, 2026)

Course information

The live calls intend to uphold the structure and due dates of the course while also cultivating community amidst the other individuals pursuing self-paced yoga teacher training alongside you. The intention of creating this pre-recorded trauma-informed 200-hour yoga teacher training is to create an international community of trauma-informed somatic practitioners without time zones, travel costs, or scheduling getting in the way.

• Live call 1: Community introductions, overview of the course, go over certification expectations and requirements. Access to the course on Mighty Networks will officially be granted after this opening session.
• Live call 2: Check-in and Q&A. Expectation is for module 1 to be completed in Mighty Networks.
• Live call 3: Check-in and Q&A. Expectation is to have completed module 2 in Mighty Networks.
• Live call 4: Peer teaching, graduation, and closing. Expectation is for Modules 3 and 4 to be completed in Mighty Networks, as well as all graduation requirements submitted.

Curriculum

This online trauma-informed yoga teacher training will weave through four cycles: stabilize, metabolize, visualize, and alchemize. The intention for the flow of this program is to invite students into a deeply reflective space of self-confrontation and then to empower them to excavate their wounds into their wisdom and their pain into their purpose through service. Some of the topics covered in these programs are:

• Yoga history and philosophy
• Art of teaching
• Yoga anatomy and physiology
• Anatomy of the brain
• Understanding the nervous system
• Neuroscience and neurobiology research studies about embodiment and trauma
• Considerations for working with and teaching yoga to trauma survivors
• Understanding symptomology ~ yoga for anxiety and depression
• Trauma-informed chakra work
• Yoga for eating disorders
• Depathologizing and destigmatizing mental illness
• Inclusive language
• Resourcing
• Pranayama for trauma
• Understanding triggers
• Shadow work
• Leadership tools
• Sequencing principles for Slow Flow, Vinyasa, and Yin yoga
• Productive and effective hands-on adjustments
• Effective communication techniques
• Scope of practice for yoga teachers
• Self-care within community care
• Ceremonies and rituals
• Life-long connections

Who is this training for?

• Therapists
• Social workers
• Nurses
• Healthcare professionals
• Activists
• School teachers
• Yoga teachers
• Wellness practitioners
• Mental health advocates
• Parents and caregivers
• Coaches
• Bodyworkers
• Community leaders
• Individuals seeking personal growth

Module topics and videos

Module 1

• Opening ceremony - submit opening cycle 1 reflection questions
• Trauma-informed slow flow with Jeanine
• Trauma-informed slow flow with Brooke
• Story of yoga through a trauma-informed lens
• Origins and translations of popular yoga rhetoric
• Yoga anatomy 1
• Asana lab - foundations of asana
• Asana lab - guiding sun salutations
• Considerations for teaching trauma-informed yoga
• Introduction to trauma and the nervous system
• Polyvagal theory and somatic tools for nervous system regulation
• Submit closing cycle 2 reflection questions

Module 2

• Submit opening cycle 2 reflection questions
• Trauma-informed yin with Jeanine
• Trauma-informed yin with Brooke
• Asana lab - warm up
• Introduction to the yoga sutras
• Traumatic fear and dissociation
• Asana lab - ground down
• Yoga anatomy 2
• Trauma-informed yamas and niyamas
• Submit closing cycle 2 reflection questions

Module 3

• Submit opening cycle 3 reflection questions
• Trauma-informed Vinyasa with Jeanine
• Trauma-informed Vinyasa with Brooke
• Social justice and cultural competence
• Asana lab - bandhas
• Asana lab - standing sequence 1
• Asana lab - standing sequence 2
• Anatomy 3
• Teaching trauma-informed meditation and pranayama
• Sequencing and theming yoga asana
• Asana lab - cool down and savasana
• Watch movie: The Wisdom of Trauma with Gabor Mate
• Trauma-informed yoga Nidra
• Submit closing cycle 3 reflection questions

Module 4

• Submit opening cycle 4 reflection questions
• Trauma-informed yin and yang
• Anatomy 4
• Yoga philosophy: the kleshas
• Yoga as a conscious business
• Art + dharma
• Asana lab: crow, headstand
• Integration post-training
• Submit closing cycle 4 reflection questions
• Submit peer teaching video
• Submit community project
• Submit 80 questions