Trauma Sensitive Yin
Work with and consider your energy body, physical body, emotional and mental body and train your mind for awareness
This course is accredited by Yoga Alliance as an accredited continuing education school. The course gains 20 cpd points towards continuing education.
Join Martine for this in person training:
Saturday 22nd August 2026 9:30am-5pm AWST
Sunday 23rd August 2026 9:30am-5pm AWST
Trauma Informed Yin helps us to come into our bodies in a safe and healing way, allowing us to develop curiosity for growth and lifelong learning. We work with and consider our energy body, physical body, emotional and mental body and train our mind for awareness. This is the key to providing centering and balance to the nervous system which controls how we feel in the world.
A balanced and naturally adaptive nervous system is key to our health and well being. Our spinal column and brain inform the complex communication system that operates the central nervous system and from that all the cell messaging is co-ordinated through the rest of the body via the somatic nervous system - your sensory and motor neurons.
We begin to be in self leadership when we honor the connection between our body, heart and mind, as this is the key to a healthy and adaptive nervous system, not one that is locked in 'action' mode.
Yin yoga brings calm to the nervous system and importantly helps to up regulate the para-sympathetic mode of the nervous system - where you rest, digest and heal. In this space we can consider the mind and develop mindfulness and begin the journey of Psychological Inquiry, thus starting to open the healing doors much more widely.
Who is this training course designed for?
Yoga Teachers and yoga teachers in training who are interested in expanding their teaching skills and developing more confidence in working with students / clients who suffer from trauma and mental health difficulties. Yoga teachers will develop a much deeper understanding of the concepts of Yoga Psychology and it’s capacity to empower students by providing safe and inclusive yoga practices with awareness.
Wellbeing professionals who are interested in the mind body connection and working in a holistic way towards healing and recovery.
Teachers, nurses, first responders and all human service workers who come into contact with students/ patients who are distressed and overwhelmed and require significant support and containment. This course will give you the confidence to use grounding and stabilising techniques by using the body, breath and awareness of how the brain responds to anxiety.
Mental Health Professionals who are interested in bringing the body into treatment. There is now a significant body of evidence that has seen a marriage between yoga and Psychology. Neuroscience has shown that the mind and body are intrinsically linked and that trauma resides in the body. It has been my experience that when clients learn to befriend and trust their body, the capacity for clients to engage in therapy in a much safer and satisfying way is achieved. Yoga engages the nervous system teaching distress tolerance by balancing the nervous system, enhancing opportunities for neuroplasticity to occur by moving and breathing in a community setting with intention and on purpose.
Students of Yoga who are interested in further and deepening their knowledge in the context of ‘self’, working on their own journey towards total wellbeing and personal discovery.
In this module we will cover:
Gaining and understanding of how to use Yin as a therapeutically safe, healing and restorative practice.
Learning to support students to use their bodies to calm the nervous system.
The use of meditation and pranayama in Yin classes.
Understanding the link between meridian theory and the chakra system and the embodiment of emotions.
The concept and importance of Chi.
Incorporating a mindfulemss practice and pscyhological inquiry element into our Yin practice.
Learn about the role of teh Vagus nerve and Polyvagal theory.
Exploration of Yin postures as prescriptions for emotional and mental welbeing
Healing is most likely to be possible when we feel safe, and when our body, heart and mind are in union. For this to occur we need to take care of our physical body, our mental health and our emotional well being
You are invited to join Martine Coates , a mental health professional who works as a mental health clinician and also uses yoga psycho-therapeutically as a tool for mental health and wellbeing. This 20-hour training is part of the 100 hour Yoga for Embodiment & Healing Training Program and can be booked as an individual module
Martine is a senior yoga teacher and mental health Social Worker a psychotherapist and a psychedlic integration therapist who has significant experience in the public mental health system, in private practice and a certified Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga teacher, who was trained in this modality at The Boston Trauma Centre.
All equipment is provided, there is no need to bring anything except maybe a bottle of water. You are of course welcome as always to bring your own mat if you prefer.
Course Dates
Saturday 22nd August 2026 9:30am-5pm AWST
Sunday 23rd August 2026 9:30am-5pm AWST
Location
Training is hosted a Heartplace, 19 Blinco Street, Fremantle, WA 6160.
Enrolment Details
There are two ways to enrol:
As a single module . Please select the purchase button. Module cost A$595.00
This module can also be completed as part of the 100 hour Yoga for Embodiment & Healing course.
Details available here