The Yoga Teacher's Circle is a chance to connect with other teachers, share ideas and inspiration, deepen your knowledge with relevant CPD, and become a part of a supportive community. This special workshop brings Lorraine Close, outreach director of Edinburgh Community Yoga, to the circle to deliver 3 hours CPD on how to use a trauma informed approach in your yoga classes.
This 3 hour workshop you will develop an understanding of the basic principles of facilitating yoga classes in a trauma informed way. This is important in all yoga settings as we do not know who might turn up in our yoga classes and we know that trauma is an almost ubiquitous human experience. We can consider trauma informed practice to be people informed practice and this is an important part of being a yoga teacher that is not always understood.
Location: Hot House Yoga, Slotline House, St Andrews
Time: 12:30 - 15:30
Cost: £100
If the cost of attending this workshop is a genuine barrier, Lorraine is happy to offer 3 spaces at the reduced price of £60. To take one of these subsidised places please use the discount code TRAUMAINFORMEDSUB at checkout.
Sunday April 19th 2026 - Trauma Informed Teaching
Discuss the fact that trauma is ubiquitous in the human experience
Describe briefly the impact of trauma can have on the brain and body
Consider how regular yoga spaces can be re-traumatising or triggering for some people
Develop skills in using language and class delivery that are more trauma informed
To explore the history of cult dynamics and power abuse in yoga and how that has overtly and subtly contributes to inaccessibility and exclusion for some people
To understand ways in which yoga teachers intentionally and unintentionally abuse power
Trauma informed language helps to create a practice that is empowering, and that centres the student at the core of the experience, making sure they feel truly in charge of their own experience.
Please note: This workshop is not in depth enough for you to call yourself a trauma informed teacher or therapist. It is designed to help you make your regular yoga classes more trauma informed- not to give you the skills to work specifically with people who have C-PTSD
Lorraine is the outreach director of Edinburgh Community Yoga, a not for profit social enterprise offering trauma informed yoga programming in and around Edinburgh.
She has extensive training in trauma informed practice and yoga for mental health, runs training and CPD for yoga teachers and teacher training, mentors outreach teachers around the country and lectures in Nursing at the University of Edinburgh where she is leading a research team exploring trauma informed yoga on social prescription.
The Yoga Teacher's Circle is a chance to connect with other teachers, share ideas and inspiration, deepen your knowledge with relevant CPD, and become a part of a supportive community. This special workshop brings Lorraine Close, outreach director of Edinburgh Community Yoga, to the circle to deliver 3 hours CPD on how to use a trauma informed approach in your yoga classes.
This 3 hour workshop you will develop an understanding of the basic principles of facilitating yoga classes in a trauma informed way. This is important in all yoga settings as we do not know who might turn up in our yoga classes and we know that trauma is an almost ubiquitous human experience. We can consider trauma informed practice to be people informed practice and this is an important part of being a yoga teacher that is not always understood.
Location: Hot House Yoga, Slotline House, St Andrews
Time: 12:30 - 15:30
Cost: £100
If the cost of attending this workshop is a genuine barrier, Lorraine is happy to offer 3 spaces at the reduced price of £60. To take one of these subsidised places please use the discount code TRAUMAINFORMEDSUB at checkout.
Sunday April 19th 2026 - Trauma Informed Teaching
Discuss the fact that trauma is ubiquitous in the human experience
Describe briefly the impact of trauma can have on the brain and body
Consider how regular yoga spaces can be re-traumatising or triggering for some people
Develop skills in using language and class delivery that are more trauma informed
To explore the history of cult dynamics and power abuse in yoga and how that has overtly and subtly contributes to inaccessibility and exclusion for some people
To understand ways in which yoga teachers intentionally and unintentionally abuse power
Trauma informed language helps to create a practice that is empowering, and that centres the student at the core of the experience, making sure they feel truly in charge of their own experience.
Please note: This workshop is not in depth enough for you to call yourself a trauma informed teacher or therapist. It is designed to help you make your regular yoga classes more trauma informed- not to give you the skills to work specifically with people who have C-PTSD
Lorraine is the outreach director of Edinburgh Community Yoga, a not for profit social enterprise offering trauma informed yoga programming in and around Edinburgh.
She has extensive training in trauma informed practice and yoga for mental health, runs training and CPD for yoga teachers and teacher training, mentors outreach teachers around the country and lectures in Nursing at the University of Edinburgh where she is leading a research team exploring trauma informed yoga on social prescription.
