In this workshop, you'll be introduced to therapeutic yoga as a powerful, body-based approach to trauma treatment. Grounded in Polyvagal Theory and neuroscience, you'll learn practical ways to integrate breath, movement, and awareness into your clinical work.

Through experiential practice and clear application, you'll gain tools to support regulation, restore a sense of safety, and work more effectively with trauma—without needing prior yoga training.

You'll walk away with:

• A clear, step-by-step approach to bringing therapeutic yoga into your sessions
• Simple, effective techniques to regulate the nervous system in real time
• The confidence to apply body-based interventions safely and ethically—no yoga background needed
• A new lens for understanding trauma as physiological dysregulation—not just a cognitive process

Join internationally recognized researcher and Harvard educator Sat Bir Singh Khalsa to explore scientific and clinical wisdom for applying yoga as a trauma therapy. Since trauma is not just a mental disorder but also a mind-body disorder, you’ll explore how yoga-based and other somatic mind body therapies can offer effective, practical tools for supporting clients.

You’ll walk away with the skills to:

• Support trauma clients through a holistic, mind-body lens
• Explain the evidence base for the efficacy of yoga to your clients
• Match mind-body interventions to the specific needs and readiness of your client

This experiential workshop helps clinicians move from insight into embodied practice. Participants will engage in guided, trauma-informed practices to understand how body-based interventions support regulation, and learn how to introduce them clearly, safely, and within scope of practice in clinical settings. The focus is on confidence, choice, and translation—knowing what to offer, how to offer it, and when it fits.

You’ll walk away able to:

• Experience and demonstrate trauma-informed, body-based practices appropriate for clinical use
• Use clear, invitational language that supports safety and client agency
• Recognize and respond to nervous system cues in real time
• Integrate brief, scope-appropriate practices into time-limited sessions

Join Dr. Arielle Schwartz in conversation with Stacy Ruse and Joanne Spence for an honest, behind the scenes look at what it really means to integrate yoga into trauma treatment.

In this interactive panel, you’ll explore the benefits of trauma informed yoga for clients with complex presentations, including CPTSD, dissociation, and hypoarousal. You’ll gain insight into how this work shows up across settings—from one-on-one sessions to group work—as well as important cultural considerations when working with the body.

You’ll walk away with:

• Real-world methods to adapt practices for dissociation, hypoarousal, and CPTSD in session
• Clarity on when, where, and how to introduce body-based work safely and effectively
• Approaches for navigating resistance, shutdown, and client discomfort in the body
• A more culturally attuned lens for applying somatic interventions in diverse populations

Move beyond cognitive interventions and into the body where regulation actually happens. This dynamic, experiential session equips clinicians with practical, trauma-informed tools to support nervous system regulation using breathwork, yoga-informed movement, and co-regulation. Grounded in neuroscience and designed for real-world application, you’ll learn how to confidently integrate bottom-up strategies that enhance safety, flexibility, and connection in your clinical work.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Apply simple, evidence-informed breathwork, movement, and grounding techniques in-session to support real-time nervous system regulation
• Assess arousal states and make confident clinical decisions around pacing, intervention choice, and contraindications
• Use your own presence and attunement as a therapeutic tool to strengthen co-regulation and support client safety

Designed for immediate clinical application, this session emphasizes how to tailor interventions to the moment—refining your ability to track responses, adjust pacing, and offer practices in ways that enhance safety, flexibility, and therapeutic connection. You’ll leave with a more embodied understanding of the tools you use, along with practical strategies to integrate them seamlessly into your sessions.

You’ll walk away with the skills to:

• Sequence and layer yoga-based practices to support regulation, integration, and therapeutic goals
• Modify practices in real time to address common clinical challenges such as hypoarousal, overwhelm, or dissociation
• Bridge body-based experiences with clinical processing to deepen insight and integration without losing regulation
• Build client capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation through repeatable, skill-based practices

Trauma doesn't just live in memory — it can disrupt your client's entire sense of balance, space, and safety. In an instant, the nervous system is thrown off. The brain and body stop working together the way they should — impacting posture, movement, orientation, and threat detection. That's why clients may feel dizzy, unsteady, disconnected, or on the verge of shutting down.

In this session, we'll unpack what's really going on in the vestibular system — and what it means for your clinical work.

You'll walk away with the skills to:

• Spot when trauma is disrupting your clients sense of balance, space, and safety
• Identify vestibular-driven symptoms like dizziness, dissociation, and shutdown responses
• Make sense of these symptoms through a nervous system lensnot just behavior or cognition
• Use practical, body-based interventions to restore grounding and regulation in session

In this session, you’ll explore what to do in-session to support the vestibular system. You’ll build confidence using simple, body-based strategies to help clients reorient, stabilize, and reconnect with a sense of grounding and safety—enhancing your ability to respond effectively to these often-overlooked symptoms in real time.

You’ll walk away with the skills to:

• Use simple, body-based practices to support orientation, grounding, and spatial safety in-session
• Help clients reestablish connection between body, environment, and awareness when disoriented or shut down
• Apply targeted strategies to support stabilization without increasing overwhelm

This final session offers space to gently integrate what you’ve learned and reconnect with your body and breath. Arielle will share key reflections to help you carry trauma-informed principles into your personal and professional life with intention and care.

You’ll also have the chance to ask your final questions to gain clarity and receive real-time support.