Introduction to Trauma-Sensitive Yoga &
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Nidra
Saturday & Sunday, May 17/18, 2025
SOMA Yoga Wandsworth, London
Join me for this weekend exploration of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga. This workshop is primarily designed for yoga teachers and teacher trainees, though anyone who feels it may be beneficial is warmly welcome to attend. You have the option to join for one day or both days, with a 10% discount available if you attend the full weekend.
The weekend price includes 13 hours, which can be registered as YACEP (CE for Yoga Teachers registered under Yoga Alliance) and APD (CE for Yoga Therapists registered under IAYT). The hours can also be applied towards the Spanda Institute’s 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (both for Spanda Global Programme and Spanda SOMA Programme).
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Introduction to Safe Space: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga lecture
In the lecture, we will cover the basic principles of teaching yoga in a trauma-informed way, which will help you create safer spaces that support healing, cultivate trust, and allow each participant to feel seen and respected. We’ll explore techniques for cueing, language, choices etc., all designed to encourage choice, empowerment, and personal agency in your students. This approach can make your teaching more inclusive, sensitive, and accessible to everyone, whether or not they have a trauma background. While this is only an introductory lesson, not covering everything we offer at Spanda Institute's Safe Space Trauma-Sensitive module, you’ll leave with valuable insights into trauma, the nervous system, and essential tools for creating safer spaces.
Flow into Embodiment Yoga Class
Using the principles of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, this class is designed to guide you to connect deeply with your body/mind through mindful movement, breath, mudras, meditation and chanting, allowing each asana and vinyasa to become a pathway to self-discovery. Through flowing sequences and intentional pauses, we’ll cultivate a state of embodied presence, where each movement reflects a deeper connection to yourself. We’ll close the class with chanting, deepening our connection to ourselves and each other.
Schedule:
10:00 - 12:30 Safe Space: TSY - lecture
lunch break
14:00 - 16:30 Safe Space: TSY - lecture cont.
short break
16:30 - 18:00 Flow into Embodiment - Movement class
Investment:
97 £ one day
175 £ both days
The price of the workshop includes Nina's Safe Space: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga book.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Embodied Calm: Trauma Sensitive Yoga Nidra
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Nidra workshop
This workshop is designed for yoga teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of trauma-sensitive principles in the context of Yoga Nidra. Whether you’re looking to adapt the traditional Yoga Nidra practice you already teach, or are interested in learning how to guide Yoga Nidra sessions with a trauma-informed approach from the start, this workshop offers practical tools and insights. You’ll gain skills to create a safe, supportive environment that respects each participant’s unique journey, making the practice accessible, empowering, and healing for all students, regardless of their background or experience.
Embodied Calm Yoga Class
This deeply nourishing class combines an hour of gentle, restorative yoga with 30 minutes of Embodied Calm Yoga Nidra, creating a powerful space for relaxation and nervous system regulation. Using trauma-sensitive principles, we’ll create a safe, welcoming environment that encourages rest, release, and reconnection with the body. The restorative yoga poses are designed to support the body in a state of ease and gentle opening, while the guided Yoga Nidra practice offers an opportunity to reach profound states of calm and clarity. This class is an invitation to slow down, unwind, and restore the balance within.
Schedule:
10:00 - 12:30 lecture
lunch break
14:00 - 16:30 lecture cont.
short break
16:30 - 18:00 Restorative Flow + Embodied Calm Yoga Nidra
Investment:
97 £
175 £ both days
65 £ Spanda Institute Teacher Trainees (Sunday only)
The price of the workshop includes Nina's Embodied Calm: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga book.
