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Trauma-Informed Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

DEBORAH BERRYMAN

Trauma-Informed Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: 4-day Immersion

£525
Payment plans available on request

An experience that will introduce you to the practice, concepts and teaching of Restorative Yoga, and the true importance and benefits of including trauma-informed techniques into your teaching.
Restorative yoga is considered the true antidote to stress because it allows you to relax deeply with awareness. Relaxing with awareness is the key to bringing the mind-body into a state of balance or homeostasis, similar to the effect of meditation.

Meet Restorative TT Graduate, Caroline Forrest

Caroline, an experienced yoga and mindfulness teacher, highly recommends Deborah’s Restorative Yoga Teacher Training. She found the course incredibly insightful, especially regarding trauma, body awareness, and stress management. Her personal experience, attending while sleep-deprived from caring for her young child, enriched her learning, allowing her to deeply embrace kindness and compassion.

She speaks highly of Deborah’s teachings, particularly about using kindness to combat stress and the importance of self-care for teachers. The training also highlighted the significant role of a teacher’s energy in creating a supportive and effective learning environment. Caroline’s experience transformed her approach and she enthusiastically suggests this course to anyone interested in deepening their yoga practice and teaching skills.

Teaching and Practicing Trauma-Informed Restorative Yoga can be a powerful tool in aiding the process of regulating the nervous system and help undo the effects of stress – bringing about a sense of feeling grounded, calm, relaxed and safe.

EVENT SUMMARY

It’s easy to be swept away by the demands of modern life. Today’s pace of life means we are often in a state of high alert, causing our bodies to release stress hormones that stimulate the ‘fight or flight’ response. This affects our ability to sleep soundly, digest our food, focus, feel grounded, and even our ability to conceive a child.

When 1 in 3 adults report having experienced developmental trauma, it’s important we understanding trauma is about what has happened to the body, not what is wrong with the body. We will cover the neurobiology (brain and nervous system) and physiology (body operating systems) of trauma and prolonged stress (Complex/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and how to apply this wisdom into your teaching. This approach will also provide support with verbal cueing and set up of postures, sequencing, and creating a safe space for all students..

Whether just starting the journey as a Yoga Teacher, seeking to enhance existing teaching skills or simply wish to develop their personal practice, this course is a welcome study immersion for yoga teachers and teachers in training to refresh, renew and to deepen their practice and teach authentically, grounded both in self-awareness and experiential knowledge.
It’s also open to dedicated yoga students (minimum of 2 years consistent practice) wanting to deepen their understanding and practice of yoga, and health professionals (e.g. Osteopaths, Psychomotor Therapists) keen to broaden their knowledge and skills (please note, this wouldn’t certify you as a Restorative Yoga Teacher).

KEY TOPICS

Course Hours

Graduate Yoga Teachers will receive a Whitespace 50hr Trauma-Informed Restorative Teaching Certificate accredited with Yoga Alliance Professionals. Training hours can also be used for members of other yoga organisations. (e.g. CPD points).

Deborah Berryman

Deborah Berryman is known for her infectious curiosity for the practice and for life. Drawing on over 12yrs of teaching experience, she is passionate about Restorative Yoga and sharing the life enhancing benefits of a regular practice.

She is a ‘teacher of teachers’, and teaches national and international Retreats, Workshops and Teacher Trainings which are always insightful and great fun. She strikes that balance of touching the deeper & more profound aspects of our practice and ourselves while rediscovering a lightness and playful side – very life affirming!

Her teaching explores physiology as well as our emotional and energetic patterns, as she believes to free the body, we must first understand how everything integrates, and how we can support all aspects of the self to bring about healing.

Her journey with Restorative Yoga started many years ago with Simon Low and she studied for many years with internationally renowned Judith Lasater, assisting her training in the UK and completing her Advanced Therapeutic Restorative Teacher Training. She will share her training, experience and personal insights, exploring the power of relaxing and resting deeply.

She was the founder and senior faculty member of Whitespaces’ Teacher Training Programme for 12 years and holds the British Wheel of Yoga Dipl (BWY). In more recent years, she has studied and worked in the field of Mindfulness, iRest Yoga Nidra and Trauma-Informed Yoga.

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OUR LOCATION

Whitespace Yoga & Wellbeing Studio
5 St Pauls Court (off the High St),
Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, MK11 1LJ

Duration & location

Courses are held at our beautiful, light-filled dedicated yoga studio in Milton Keynes – the perfect environment to immerse yourself in this wonderful practice and share experiences with like-minded people.

PARKING

We have very limited free parking available to the rear of the building, entering via Fagan’s Court, although we do recommend you use of the other car parks:

Frequently Asked Questions

ABOUT RESTORATIVE TEACHER TRAINING

You don’t need to have had experience of Restorative Yoga, but we strongly recommend you try out as many classes if you can. This will allow you to begin to understand the practice, both from a student and teacher perspective, and get the most out of the training.

ABOUT THE COMMITMENT FOR RESTORATIVE TEACHER TRAINING

The course is a 50 hour course, which is made up of the following.

28 contact teaching hours
22 non-contact hours including:
– 10 Hours reading & reflection
– 12 Hours assignment including case study research, writing, practice and journaling

ABOUT RESTORATIVE TEACHER TRAINING QUALIFICATION

In this Immersion, we will explore Restorative practice, the Nervous System & Organs and the neurobiology and physiology of trauma and prolonged stress. Also recapping on relevant aspects of Yoga Anatomy, Physiology & Philosophy, the Art of Using Props & Holding Space, Teaching Techniques and Considerations. Deborah will share her experience and the tools of the practice, exploring how to relax and rest deeply. Each day will include Restorative Practice as well as Meditation and Self-reflection.