Understand trauma responses
Learn to recognise hyperarousal and hypoarousal in real time, and respond to each appropriately, not just in theory, but with the specific breath techniques and pacing choices that actually work in a class.
Why this training exists
The body’s alarm system turns on and then never quite turns off.
In any class, a yoga teacher can stand in front of someone whose nervous system is still bracing for something experienced long ago. Most teachers were never taught what to do next. This is the training that gives you the language, skills and support to hold space in a trauma-aware way.
Now taking enrolments
Enrolments open
In-person training starts 13 February 2027
$695 early bird price until 9 November, then $895.
$895
All proceeds support A Sound Life’s free community programs.
The next intake is coming soon. Join the waitlist to hear first.
Secure Your Place Join the WaitlistYou’ve completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training and want to go deeper.
You teach, or want to teach, in hospitals, aged care, disability services or community spaces.
An approved Yoga Australia Professional Development course, with 50 hours across eleven units, combining four in-person days with self-paced online learning.
Five mentored teaching sessions, from shadowing to leading your own class.
Whether you want to understand trauma more deeply, find new places to teach, or simply become the best teacher you can be, this training is designed to help you grow. In this training, you’ll:
And you won’t be doing it alone. You’ll be guided and mentored by experienced teachers who know both the rewards and the challenges of teaching in diverse community settings.
This course is grounded in A Sound Life’s experience delivering trauma-aware wellbeing programs in hospitals, disability services, aged care homes and community settings across Australia. It brings what we’ve learned working with real people, in real environments, into practical training for yoga teachers.
You’ll explore what trauma-aware teaching looks like beyond theory: how language can shape the experience of a class, why choice matters, how to respond when familiar cues aren’t appropriate, and how to create spaces that support greater safety, agency and connection.
We built the training we wish we’d had when we started. It brings together practical tools, guidance and experience designed to help yoga teachers take trauma-aware principles off the page and into the room.
Learn to recognise hyperarousal and hypoarousal in real time, and respond to each appropriately, not just in theory, but with the specific breath techniques and pacing choices that actually work in a class.
Master trauma-aware, consent-based cueing that gives every participant genuine choice throughout a class, not just at the start, built from language that’s already been used and refined in real community settings.
You won’t just get a certificate, you’ll get real teaching experience, with support at every step. Start by shadowing an experienced teacher, then co-teach, then lead your own sessions, five in total, with a mentor guiding you throughout. By the end, you’ve actually taught, not just studied.
Secure your place, with early bird pricing until 9 November.
Join our live welcome session and begin with a short introductory unit on understanding trauma.
Four days of hands-on learning at Together2 in Rozelle, with your trainer and fellow teachers.
Five mentored sessions in A Sound Life community settings, from shadowing to leading your own class.
Finish your online units and reflective portfolio, and receive your certificate of completion.
All proceeds from this training support A Sound Life’s free music, yoga and meditation programs, bringing connection, comfort and wellbeing to people experiencing illness, isolation, trauma and disadvantage. That means more sessions in hospitals, aged care, disability services and community settings.
So you’ll walk away with valuable new skills and real teaching experience, and you’ll be helping make these practices available to the people who need them most.
Siobhan is A Sound Life’s Training Lead, a yoga therapist and teacher trainer specialising in trauma-aware practice. A qualified yoga therapist since 2019, she has spent more than seven years supporting people to feel safe, grounded and connected in their bodies, and brings that experience to every part of this training.
Online learning opens on Monday 25 January 2027, and the in-person training starts on Saturday 13 February 2027 at Together2 in Rozelle. Enrolments are open now.
The early bird price is $695, available until 9 November 2026. After that, the price is $895. All proceeds support A Sound Life’s free community programs.
The price is $895. All proceeds support A Sound Life’s free community programs.
The training combines in-person and online learning. Around 30 hours are in person: four training days across two weekends, plus your five practical teaching sessions in A Sound Life community settings. Around 20 hours are self-paced online: theory units and your reflective portfolio, which you can complete in your own time.
Online learning opens on Monday 25 January 2027, with a live online welcome session that week so you can meet your trainer and fellow participants before we begin.
In-person training days are held at Together2, 754 Darling Street, Rozelle NSW 2039, from 9am to 4:30pm each day. Practical teaching sessions take place in A Sound Life community settings, scheduled with you after the in-person weekends.
Fifty hours in total, from 25 January to 25 April 2027. Online learning opens on 25 January, with a live welcome session and one short introductory unit to complete before our first in-person weekend on 13 February. After that, you’ll complete your remaining online units, five practical teaching sessions and a short reflective portfolio, finishing everything by 25 April.
Yes. This training is for qualified yoga teachers who have already completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training.
Five sessions across the whole course. You start by shadowing an experienced teacher, no pressure to perform. From there you build up to co-teaching, then leading independently, with mentor support throughout. It’s where everything you’ve learned comes together, in a real room, with real support.
Between late February and April, scheduled with you in A Sound Life community settings.
No. This is a trauma-aware yoga teacher training, not a clinical or therapeutic qualification.
You’ll receive a certificate of completion once your assessment and all five teaching sessions are signed off by your mentor. Because this is an approved Yoga Australia Professional Development course, it also counts toward your Yoga Australia CPD points.
Leave your details and we’ll be in touch personally with everything you need to secure your place.
Leave your details and we’ll let you know as soon as the next intake opens.
Trauma robs the victim of a sense of power and control.
This training teaches you how to help give that back. Deliberately, safely, one class at a time.
Now taking enrolments
Enrolments open
In-person training starts 13 February 2027
$695 early bird price until 9 November, then $895.
$895
All proceeds support A Sound Life’s free community programs.
The next intake is coming soon. Join the waitlist to hear first.
Secure Your Place Join the Waitlist