Would it serve you to pause and take a few deep breaths, to acknowledge what you’re feeling and what’s showing up in your body, to offer words of encouragement inward, before you begin reading? If the answer is yes, I invite you to do so.

I am deeply grateful to be a part of a community of humans who recognize the richness of yogic science and practice, and its usefulness as a somatic, healing modality. When I first got started as a psychotherapist, even working at a local trauma clinic in Brooklyn, I was met with resistance from management about running yoga groups. Can you believe that?! Things have fortunately changed.

And yoga, is one of the oldest somatic healing methods there is. I call it the O.G. somatic therapy.

Suffering. Suffering is what we experience when we are navigating this body and life with unmetabolized trauma and unmet parts of ourselves.

Yoga is a holistic science that’s been used to alleviate suffering and heal trauma for 10’s of 1000’s of years!

The verdict is out. There is no doubt that TCYM is an incredibly transformative and cathartic trauma healing model. The feedback we receive from our certified practitioners and the people they serve is resounding.

We here at The Trauma-Conscious Yoga Institute are deeply grateful.

🌺🌿✨ In the training, trainees get a rich education on yoga’s pre and post colonial history and how to decolonize the practice.

🌺🌿✨ Trainees learn how to help others located unmetabolized trauma in the body, and tools for discharging this trauma in ways that are self-compassionate and match the pace needed for the individual.

Some trainees come to TCYM already using somatics, but without the depth of yoga knowledge or lacking an understanding of why, how, when and where to insert the yoga within psychotherapy sessions.

🌺🌿✨ In TCYM training, trainees learn how to bring intuitive movement and yoga asana into sessions in a way that supports the client in fully metabolizing the trauma they are holding in their bodies.

🌺🌿✨ Within the 30-hour training, Nityda offers trainees a detailed roadmap around how to bring somatic focus, somatic interventions, and then yoga and movement into their work with individual clients, couples and groups an an intuitive way.

Working this way relieves practitioners from burnout and reinvigorates their personal and professional practice.

This is a refreshing way to practice; one that connects us to our hearts and the abounding interconnectedness we all share as humans, navigating this life’s path.

So cheers to you and your journey. We are so grateful our paths have aligned, as we are deeply unified on this venture of awakening.

Truly, our liberation happens as a collective.

To your peace, to your liberation, to your joy,

Nityda ❤️