Trauma can keep your attention anchored in what happened before, making it hard to feel grounded, connected, and at home in your own life. This course uses yoga as a body-based path back to yourself—helping you reconnect with your body, your senses, and the present moment so you can engage more fully with the life you’re living now.

In this trauma-informed yoga course, licensed psychologist, somatic psychology expert, and yoga teacher Dr. Arielle Schwartz guides you through a compassionate, body-based approach to understanding what triggers you—the everyday moments when something leaves you feeling overwhelmed, reactive, or shut down. Through insightful teachings, guided reflection, and somatic practice, you’ll learn to listen beneath your reactions and respond with more room to pause and choose. Breath, attention, self-compassion, and daily rhythm become practical tools for nervous system regulation—on the mat and in daily moments when you feel pulled off-center.

Designed to unfold progressively, this course helps you begin where you are: noticing your breath, your body, your emotions, and the ways you’ve learned to protect yourself. Step by step, you’ll build practices for pausing, grounding, caring for yourself, and staying connected to what you need. As the course deepens, you’ll explore how this inner work can support your relationships, your sense of self, and your ability to move through life with more trust, clarity, and room to breathe.

What You’ll Learn

• How to notice when the past is pulling you out of the present—and how your body can help you return

• Why overwhelming, reactive, guarded, or shut-down moments can make sense as protective patterns, so you can meet yourself with more compassion and less self-blame

• Yoga Therapy and research-based tools for working with triggers, easing self-criticism, and stepping out of old trauma loops

What You’ll Experience

• Clear, compassionate teachings that make trauma-informed yoga feel accessible, practical, and personal

• Workshop-style reflection, journaling, and somatic inquiry that create space to pause, listen inward, and let the work take shape

• Embodied practices—from somatic movement and supported rest to slow flow and Yoga Therapy—that help you move from insight into lived, body-based support

How You’ll Feel

• More at home in your body, even when difficult feelings arise

• Better able to recognize the signals that point toward your needs, limits, and inner wisdom

• Supported in pausing, grounding, and responding with self-compassion when stress or old reactions surface

What You’ll Gain

• A practical toolkit of trauma-informed yoga, somatic inquiry, breath, movement, rest, and reflection for moments that feel tender, stressful, or triggering

• A personalized “resilience recipe” to help you identify the practices, people, and rhythms that support you

• Supportive course resources, including your Ebook, guided reflections, and support for teaching trauma-informed yoga

Who This Course Is For

• Anyone exploring yoga for trauma recovery, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, or a more compassionate relationship with their body

• Yoga practitioners of all levels who want structured, body-based tools for grounding, boundaries, self-trust, and everyday resilience

• Yoga teachers, therapists, clinicians, and wellness professionals who want to support others with trauma-informed awareness

Come back to the body that’s here now. With Dr. Arielle Schwartz as your guide, begin building the tools to meet yourself—and your life—with more care, clarity, and choice.