Trauma Sensitive Yoga
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TCTSY is a program of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute (JRI), USA.
Originally developed in 2003 at the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, the program has expanded since 2015 with licensed trainers throughout Europe and Australia.
TCTSY is an adjunctive treatment for complex trauma and complex posttraumatic stress disorder. Developed in the United States by David Emerson in conjunction with Dr Bessel van der Kolk, TCTSY is now available throughout Australia - including Hobart, Tasmania!
Facilitators are licenced by JRI to deliver classes, and trainers/supervisors have done additional studies to deliver half day and 20 hour trainings for professional development, as well as the yearly 300 hour training in conjunction with US and Europe commencing each September. Please contact Maria for further information.
TCTSY is open to all people regardless of age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, body type and physical ability.
Originally developed in 2003 at the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, the program has expanded since 2015 with licensed trainers throughout Europe and Australia.
TCTSY is an adjunctive treatment for complex trauma and complex posttraumatic stress disorder. Developed in the United States by David Emerson in conjunction with Dr Bessel van der Kolk, TCTSY is now available throughout Australia - including Hobart, Tasmania!
Facilitators are licenced by JRI to deliver classes, and trainers/supervisors have done additional studies to deliver half day and 20 hour trainings for professional development, as well as the yearly 300 hour training in conjunction with US and Europe commencing each September. Please contact Maria for further information.
TCTSY is open to all people regardless of age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, body type and physical ability.
VIDEO: What is TCTSY?
TCTSY - What to expect:
Participants are required to be in therapy, or have access to a therapist.
Class size is limited to 10 participants - please contact Maria if you would like a support person to attend with you.
Invitation for Mental Health Clinicians: 1 complimentary class is offered to provide information and experience of TCTSY - please contact Maria to book,
Terms are 5 weeks in length (2 TCTSY terms available within each school term). Ideal length of attendance is 10 weeks.
No yoga experience is necessary.
We will be practising yoga together as a way to notice what we feel in our bodies, and to practice making choices about what to do with our body based on what we feel.
TCTSY is offered in a safe, suppostive, non-judgemental environment.
No hands-on, physical assists during class.
Classes are an opportunity for participants to explore yoga forms and breathing for their own benefit, experiencing present moment awareness of embodiment.
For all enquiries, please contact Maria