“The most impactful aspect for me was understanding the connection between trauma, the body and agency... and how choice making in movement is not a small thing, but something deeply healing for people who have lived without the experience of choosing what happens to their own body.”
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REDEFINE HEALING WITH TCTSY - TRAUMA SENSITIVE YOGA
Trauma-Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is a yoga-based intervention that has been clinically validated for Complex Trauma and PTSD.
A big part of this work is finding ways to bring support, body-based trauma care, and opportunities for connection into more spaces, making care accessible to a wider population.
The need is significant: the WHO estimates that around 70% of the world’s population has experienced one or more potentially traumatic events in their lifetime, while only a small proportion of people receive access to appropriate care.
The TCTSY model is grounded in over two decades of rigorous research and evidence-based practice, and is informed by contemporary perspectives on equity, intersectionality, and relational trauma care.
From the beginning, TCTSY has attracted global interest, and the model has taken shape in different languages and cultural contexts, making it fluid and adaptable to the person or community. Today, TCTSY is offered in a variety of settings, from therapy rooms to schools, community centers, support groups, prisons, refugee camps, and more.
A 2024 review of 988 studies identified TCTSY as one of the two leading evidence-based interventions for PTSD, alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(Campbell et al.)
In 2025, TCTSY was included in the Palgrave Handbook of Third Wave Psychotherapies, marking an important international recognition of the model within the broader field of psychotherapy
“The daily embodied practices and the five domains of a TCTSY-informed class were deeply impactful. I found interoception both practically and theoretically extremely useful”
“The TCTSY Foundational Training led by Anna exceeded my expectations. Her hands-on experience was an invaluable part of it. I can confidently say that she embodies what she teaches.
Anna created a respectful, safe, and inclusive setting for the training, with lots of room for questions.”
"The TCTSY Foundations training was easily the best training I’ve done this year. It helped me understand the basics of the TCTSY philosophy and feel prepared and excited to take on the larger TCTSY certification course. The ample opportunity for hands-on learning has given me confidence to integrate some of the empowerment principles into my own work with clients immediately.”
Why trauma-informed practice matters?
Trauma is not a niche issue — it is a widespread reality shaping how people show up in any space: classrooms, clinics, workplaces, yoga classes, and communities. Any work that involves working with humans means encountering people who have endured trauma.
Being trauma-informed is a shift in perspective. It means recognizing how overwhelming stress, interpersonal trauma, and adversity shape the body, the mind, our relationships, and our behavior.
It calls for learning and unlearning alike, to create anti-oppressive spaces that feel possibly safer, more supportive, and rooted in empowerment.
It also invites us to reflect on the systems that perpetuate and create harm, and on our own lived histories and social positioning that shape how we see and relate to the world and others, as well as how we define and offer care.
This self-reflection is essential: without it, trauma-informed care risks becoming just a set of techniques. With it, we can meet others with greater humility, authenticity, and awareness.
What will you learn in the training?
We will hold space to explore theory and practice, and to learn together through shared reflection, around the following topics:
Nervous System Basics
What about the systems that harm? Intersectionality & Social Oppression (explored in greater depth in the 8-Week Immersion.)
Building trauma-informed relationships: Trauma theory & Attachment theory
Interoceptive Neuroscience & Research (explored in greater depth in the 8-Week Immersion.)
Where is the Yoga in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Mexican Prisons: Adapting TCTSY Principles in a complex context (not included in the weekend intensive)
The five core elements of the TCTSY methodology
Ways of approaching Breath
How to meet trauma responses in class
In the Weekend Intensive, you’ll take part in three shorter TCTSY practices and try three brief facilitation exercises.
In the 8-Week Immersion, you’ll experience eight longer TCTSY practices, with more time and more opportunities to explore and practice some of the model’s core principles.
What is my scope of practice as a trainer and facilitator?
My strength as a trainer lies in the practical, lived experience of applying and exploring trauma-informed yoga and TCTSY as a model of care in yoga spaces and yoga studios, as well as with marginalized communities.
My work has taken place primarily in group settings, both online and in person, including with people living with dissociative patterns of coping and in environments serving marginalized and vulnerable communities, such as women’s shelters, refugee and migrant centers, and prisons. I share this training as a survivor, yoga facilitator, and through my background in social sciences and project work in humanitarian settings.
I am not a therapist, and I do not have direct experience applying this work within clinical or talk-therapy settings, even though some amazing work is being done applying TCTSY in clinical settings!
I intentionally keep training groups small, as I find this supports trust, relational safety, and deeper learning.
I approach the training as a co-learning process, shaped by the different lived experiences participants bring. Working with trauma continually reminds us of the limits of our own assumptions, and of how differently the same experience, language, or practice can be received by different people..
What is the language of instruction?
The training is offered primarily in English. Participants should understand spoken and written English, but we can address questions and clarifications in Finnish, Spanish, Swedish, and Italian, as I speak these languages.
Who is this training for?
This training is open to anyone interested in trauma and the body—whether for personal exploration, professional development, or both. Throughout the program, we dedicate significant time to exploring and embodying the core principles of TCTSY, including personal practice, reflection, and experiential learning
How does this training add to your formal qualifications?
If you are planning to move toward CFTE’s 300-hour TCTSY Certification Program, this training qualifies as the foundational training required for application.
While this training deepens your scope of practice and equips you with tools to begin thinking about how to bring the body into the work you do, it does NOT qualify participants to facilitate TCTSY as a model of care; it equips you with essential tools to integrate trauma-informed principles into your current scope of practice.
The Foundational Training is approved for 20 Continuing Education Hours (CEs) with Yoga Alliance and 18 CEs with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
An official Diploma from the Center for Trauma and Embodiment is provided upon completion of the training.