Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)

“TCTSY is the first yoga-based empirically validated, clinical intervention for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Developed originally at the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts by Dave Emerson and others, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is now a program at The Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute.”

Because trauma is stored in the body, yoga-based interventions are a way to approach healing by rebuilding a sense of connection to the self through using invitational language, creating opportunities for choice-making, exploring physical sensations, and upholding the principle of empowerment.

For those interested, you can expect to engage in an embodied practice that utilizes movement and breath work as a way to experience the present moment, feel empowered to make choices, take effective action, and to experience the flow of creating rhythm or synchrony with your breath and body.

Training
In May of 2014, I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training through Lotus House of Yoga, in Omaha, NE where I studied asana, meditation, pranayama, yoga philosophy, anatomy, and physiology.

In October of 2015, I attended a 40-hour yoga teacher yoga certificate program at the Kripalu Center entitled “Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: A Workshop for Yoga Teachers.”

In October of 2018, I completed a Yoga Nidra certification program through Integrative Amrit Method, I Am Yoga Nidra.

In March of 2024, I completed the TCTSY online certification program. This is a 300-hour certification for yoga professionals, mental health and health care professionals, and community providers actively working with individuals and communities that have been impacted by complex trauma.