Certificate Earned upon Completion: Trauma Healing Yoga Therapist

Pre-requisite: C-IAYT

This course provides 24 Approved Professional Development credit hours for the IAYT toward renewal of your C-IAYT.

This course is 16-hours of prerecorded videos with a quiz at the end, plus eight hours of attendance live in an online Case Studies class which meets Wednesdays, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern Time. During the Case Studies class, you will present two cases of clients that you worked with where you used yoga therapy for Trauma Healing.

The prerecorded online classes include discussion in stress, the HPA-axis, and the autonomic nervous system, the pathogenesis of trauma-related issues and ailments such as PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, and more.

JJ Gormley, MS, CIAYT, ERYT500, will guide students in the anatomy & physiology of stress, the HPA-axis, and the autonomic nervous system, the pathogenesis of trauma-related issues and ailments, current research using yoga as the intervention, healing suggestions for trauma-related issues, case studies of clients with trauma.

Requirements

• Trauma Healing Online Classes 1 - Eight one-hour classes (pre-recorded).

• Trauma Healing Online Classes 2 - Eight one-hour classes (pre-recorded).

• Case Studies Online Class - Eight week session where you present two case studies of client’s you’ve worked with who have a trauma issue. Case study presentations are made on the case studies online class—see Current Online Classes. Generally, this class meets Wednesdays 1-2pm. Upon enrollment in this course, you will be autoenrolled in the next available Case Studies course where there are two weeks free for your to present your cases.

This course is taught by JJ Gormley, a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP).

This course is an Approved Professional Development course with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). You will receive 24 CEUs toward your C-IAYT renewal.