Trauma-Sensitive Teaching Certificate through Justice Resouce Institute (JRI) as created by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has been the leader in Traumatology. His work has lead him into understanding the impact of traumatic stress and pathways to recovery including Yoga. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has stated "Over the last ten years, developments in neuroscience research have started to inform clinical practice. New Insights into the evolution of self-regulatory capacities have shifted our work with traumatized individuals by paying much more attention to developing self-regulatory practices, such as yoga".

Yoga has been proven to be an effective tool in healing the effects of PTSD.

At the Trauma Center at JRI, we have been trained to understand that yoga is indicated to be part of a healing path for people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (van der Kolk, 2006).  The ground breaking study that the Trauma Center  conducted in 2006 showed that yoga changes  core physiology related to PTSD.  Sine that time, the Trauma Center Yoga Program team now trained certified Yoga teachers, including myself to teach trauma-sensitive classes either individually or in a group.  I have been trained in cutting edge theories about trauma including neurophysiology from one of the world’s leaders in the field.