Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training

January 17-19, 2025
Jen Leavitt + Annie Keating-Scherer
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Friday, January 17: 5:30 - 9:00 pm
Saturday, January 18: 1:00 - 9:00 pm
Sunday, January 19: 12:30 - 7:30 pm

Learn the art of teaching yoga to individuals with a trauma history and the science of the impact of trauma on the brain and body. Explore the role of yoga and mindfulness as a healing tool for those with a trauma history.

This training includes:

  • Training on trauma sensitive practices 

  • Training on the science of trauma and the brain, nervous system dysregulation and yoga’s relationship to this process. 

  • Self-reflective inquiry

  • Practice Teaching 

  • Large and Small Group Processes 

You will leave this Training equipped to incorporate Trauma informed practices into your yoga teaching and other healing modalities.

This Training is open to 200-hour trained yoga teachers of any discipline. Health care workers, movement professionals, mental health clinicians, and advanced students welcome with prior permission of instructor. 

Please contact the instructor directly at Jen @ westhartfordyoga.com with questions. Training is approved for continuing education hours through National Association of Social Workers.

$375, registration required

instructors

Jen Leavitt, MSW/JD, RYT 200
Jen Leavitt is WHY’s former studio manager and WHY Power teacher. A 2011 graduate of WHY’s 200-hour Teacher Training, she creates an energetic, vigorous, sweaty practice for those looking to move and breathe. Jen is also a certified Therapeutic Yoga and Yin Yoga teacher who has explored different paths along the yoga road, including Bikram, Ashtanga and Kripalu. Her personal practice has served as an anchor through various life experiences, including divorce, recovery, and spiritual growth. Trained as a social worker and a lawyer, Jen worked as a criminal defense lawyer prior to joining the management team at WHY. Jen continues to serve and support WHY in various administrative capacities.

Annie Keating-Scherer, LCSW, RYT-200
Annie is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and founder of Sage Therapy and Wellness, a small therapy and holistic wellness center in West Hartford.  Annie loves working with her clients, helping them connect to their innate self-worth and build resilience, strength, and skills to navigate trauma, stressors, and hardships. Through mindfulness, evidence-based psychotherapy, and yoga, Annie supports adult and adolescent clients through their healing journeys. Annie holds an MSW from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and a BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Most importantly and most magically, Annie is the mother to two amazing girls who remind her daily to connect to wonder and awe.