Description
Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
An online trauma-informed yoga teacher training for yoga teachers and interested students who wish to bring a more intentional and beneficial yoga experience to trauma survivors.
16 Hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education. Self-Paced. Taught by Carrie Hoffman, E-RYT 500.
Every student who walks into your yoga class carries a story.
Some of those stories include trauma. Most of them, actually. The car accident. The divorce. The childhood that taught them their needs came second. You cannot see it from the front of the room, and you do not need to. What you need is a way of teaching that offers space for healing instead of accidentally triggering the very thing your students came to yoga to soothe.
That is what this training teaches you.
Enroll and complete the course at your own pace with lifetime access for $260.
What This Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training Is
This is a 16-hour online training in trauma-informed yoga facilitation, eligible for 16 continuing education hours with Yoga Alliance for registered teachers at the RYT 200 level and above.
You will learn the physiology of trauma and how it lives in the body, how yoga supports regulation and recovery, and exactly how to structure, cue, and hold a class so that every student in the room feels a sense of safety, choice, and agency. Not as a vague philosophy, but as concrete skills: invitational language, cues of safety, titration, pacing, interoception, and class structures you can use the very next time you teach.
By the end, you will plan, record, and teach your own 30-minute trauma-informed class, receive personal feedback from Carrie, and be certified as a Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor through Bigger Life Adventures.
Why Trauma-Informed Yoga Instruction Matters
“All yoga teaching needs to be trauma-informed.”
Trauma is not rare. It is anything that overwhelms our capacity to cope, and by that honest definition, it touches nearly everyone who will ever unroll a mat in front of you. Research on Adverse Childhood Experiences shows just how common trauma is and how deeply it shapes adult health, behavior, and the nervous system.
You never know the full story of every student walking into your class. In this training, you’ll understand how to create a container of safety and freedom of choice to empower your students, whether in a studio, hospital, classroom, or elsewhere.
Most teacher trainings never cover this. Teachers graduate knowing how to sequence a vinyasa flow but not why a student might panic in Child’s Pose, dissociate during breathwork, or never come back after a well-meaning hands-on adjustment. Trauma-informed teaching closes that gap. It shifts the focus from alignment and achievement toward connection, interoception, and nervous system regulation, so your classes become a resource for every body in the room.
This is not therapy, and this training is clear about that boundary. It is skilled, informed, compassionate yoga teaching. The kind our world needs more of.
Newly-trained Trauma-informed Yoga Teachers ready to change the world!
What You Will Learn in this Online Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
Inside the training:
Part 1: Understanding Trauma: You will build a real foundation: what trauma is and is not, the difference between shock, developmental, complex, and intergenerational trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and what the research tells us, resilience, and how your own social location shapes the way you hold space. You will also begin experiencing trauma-informed practices from the inside, starting with the very first guided meditation.
Part 2: The Science and the Skills: Here we go deeper into the neuroscience of trauma: the brain, the nervous system, the vagus nerve, and Polyvagal Theory in language you can actually use with students. Then we translate science into teaching. You will learn the characteristics of trauma-informed classes, invitational language and inquiry-based cueing, how to offer real choice, cues of safety, common triggers to be aware of, the energetics of different pose categories, working with at-hope communities, neuroplasticity and why there is always hope, and how to protect yourself from secondary trauma as a facilitator.
Your Final Project: You will plan and record a 30-minute trauma-informed yoga class incorporating everything you have learned. Carrie personally reviews your class and sends you individual feedback. This is not a rubber-stamp certificate. It is mentorship.
How Online Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training Works
Self-paced, simple, and personal
The training includes 13 video lessons, a comprehensive digital manual, guided embodiment practices, a full-length trauma-informed yoga class to experience as a student, and reflective assignments throughout that you submit directly to Carrie by email.
Everything lives in a simple shared Google Drive folder. No clunky course platform, no app to download, no login to forget. This choice is intentional: it keeps the cost of the training accessible so more teachers can bring this work to more communities.
Register here and get lifetime course access for $260.
Move through the material at your own pace, on your own schedule, from anywhere in the world. When your final class video is reviewed and approved, you will receive your certificate of completion, and Yoga Alliance registered teachers can log 16 continuing education hours.
Who This Trauma-Informed Yoga Training Is For…
(You don’t have to be a yoga teacher, but maybe you are!)
You are a Yoga Alliance registered teacher (RYT 200 or above) who wants your continuing education hours to actually change how you teach. You teach, or want to teach, in studios, schools, treatment centers, recovery communities, prisons, or anywhere humans carry heavy things. You have sensed that “just breathe” is not enough for some of your students and you want to understand why.
Not a registered teacher? You are welcome here too. Counselors, social workers, educators, recovery mentors, and dedicated practitioners have plenty to gain from this material. RYT 200+ teachers earn 16 Yoga Alliance CE hours; everyone earns the knowledge, the practices, and the certificate.
You do not need a background in psychology or neuroscience. You need curiosity, willingness to look inward, and care for the people you serve.
About Carrie, Your Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Trainer
Learn from someone who teaches this work every week, not just once a year at a training.
Carrie Hoffman, E-RYT 500, is the founder and lead teacher of Bigger Life Adventures, a trauma-informed, alcohol-free yoga and adventure retreat company operating since 2018 across six countries. Her trauma-informed education includes training through the Prison Yoga Project and Yoga Ed, and her teaching philosophy is inseparable from her own story: yoga is what helped her get sober in 2016, work through her own trauma, and rebuild her life from the inside out.
Carrie and graduates of a Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
For seven years, Carrie has served as the contracted yoga provider for her county’s Juvenile Detention Center, where she has trained and managed a community of trauma-informed teachers. She has brought this work into treatment facilities, schools, retreats, and teacher trainings around the world. What you will learn in this course is not theory pulled from a book. It is what actually works, refined in some of the most demanding teaching environments there are.
Carrie uses trauma-sensitive teaching practices in all her classes and retreats!
“Just completed 16 hours of trauma-informed yoga teacher training. Thank you, Carrie Hoffman , for putting this workshop on; I gained so much valuable knowledge to bring to my teaching. It was a wonderful experience to have on my birthday weekend.” -Jamie, 2024 student
Pricing / Enrollment in this Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
Ready to teach yoga that heals?
Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training (Online, Self-Paced) Includes:
*16 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Hours
*13 video lessons
*Complete digital training manual
*Guided practices and a full-length trauma-informed class experience
*Reflective assignments with direct email access and feedback from Carrie
*Personal feedback on your final recorded class
*Certification as a Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor
*Lifetime access to all course materials
Your investment: $260
Comparable trauma-informed trainings run $500 to $900 or more. We keep this training at $260 on purpose, using simple delivery tools instead of expensive course platforms, because we believe more teachers bringing this work to more communities matters more than a bigger price tag.
Questions before enrolling? Just reach out. We would love to hear your story.
