Healing Through Embodiment: Trauma- Informed 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

May- Dec 2024

***ACCREDITED BY THE YOGA ALLIANCE AS A 200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING UNDER ELEVATED STANDARDS***

This program offers life-changing instruction with skills to deepen your spiritual journey, as well as facilitate group and private sessions that set the conditions for profound transformation and healing. This program is for practitioners who are serious about initiating change in their life and in the world.

Born out of need to return to the sacred, mystical, healing aspects of yoga. Healing Through Embodiment goes deeper than asana, offering yoga as a transformational path and way of living. We honor the healing roots of yoga, the science of trauma and resilience, and embodied wisdom as a powerful experience that returns you to your Self . When we come home to our bodies, we access our souls, and unlimited potential to transmute suffering into resilience and wisdom.

The Experience:

Facilitate the direct experience of embodiment for yourself, individuals, and community

Become a leader in embodiment facilitation

Add tools of embodied inquiry and themes of transformation to your medicine bag

Understand the body experience of trauma and resilience.

Transform trauma, toxic patterns, and false stories into your greatest gifts, and help other do the same.

Cultivate a healing presence

Unlock the unlimited capacity for healing within your body

Befriend your body

Feel the embrace of a spiritual community

Become the witness of your creative genius and unlimited potential

Go deeper on your spiritual path

Honor the deep healing roots of yoga

Reclaim your birthright of joy

Live a more authentic and meaningful life

Remember the truth of who you are

Commit to your soul


This 9 month journey of transformation and liberation will touch every aspect of your life. Heal yourself, relationships, community, and world.

Are you ready to live your truth?

Healing Through Embodiment:

Trauma- Informed 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

options for your journey:

In Studio Weekend Intensive Hybrid Option

May - Dec

This hybrid program was created with deep intention to build a spiritual community that will sustain and support all of us to integrate yoga and spiritual practice into life. We deeply value the power of community coming together to grow, learn, and dream. Each weekend intensive will be abundant with direct experiences that draw out your unique truth. Rachel Crowther will joining us to share her expertise in building a sacred business, and guiding youth.

Online meetings are dedicated to book discussions, presentations, community dialogues, and sadhana support. Online sessions create meaningful virtual experiences that keep us engaged and accountable in between in person weekends. Our retreat will be an opportunity to dive into Svadyaya -self study.

  • 9 weekend intensives at Aptitude Fitness & Yoga in Rockford, MI

  • 10 three hour virtual sessions

  • 4 Day Northern Michigan Retreat

  • 6 indvidual mentor sessions

  • Graduate with 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification with Elevated Standards

3225

payment plans available

Wilde Big Sur Immersion Hybrid Option

Aug-April

Begin the journey held in the arms of the greatest teacher there is- Mother Earth. We will weave together the tapestry of our spiritual community with teachings from Jena Baird of Dharma Yoga Loft. Here we will make the commitment to our souls as we embark upon a 9 month journey to welcome all of ourselves to be known and witnessed in compassion. As we learn to return to ourselves we become gifted in guiding our communities.

You will emerge into the world and continue to be held with ongoing live in person and zoom sessions that deepen your commitments, and hold you lovingly accountable to living in your values, and walking your dharma path.

  • 7 Day immersion into the sacred, powerful land of Wilde Big Sur

  • 6 single day Kula gatherings virtual/in studio at Dharma Loft

  • 10 three hour virtual sessions

  • 16 individual mentor sessions/practicum supervision

  • Graduate in April 2025 with 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification with Elevated Standards

    3950

    payment plans available

Meet Your Guides:

Erin Madden Reed, E- RYT 500, YACEP, Certified Trauma and Resilience Coach and Trainer, has been studying and teaching yoga and mindfulness for over 25 years. She is the founder of Sacred Being Yoga, and the creator of Healing Through Embodiment : Trauma-Informed 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training.

An educator at heart, she comes alive when she is facilitating vibrant learning communities, and loves to see people awaken to truth. Erin is passionate about the essential role that the body plays in healing, and believes whole heartedly that when we heal ourselves we are healing the world. She is a trusted guide, a life-long learner, and a devotee of the Divine Feminine. She is guided by core values of love, liberation, grace, courage, and wellbeing.

  • Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in absence of an empathic witness.

    Dr. Gabor Mate

  • All revolutions are spiritual at their source.

    Vinoba Bhave

  • Rarely if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.

    bell hooks

  • Yoga is the journey, of the self, through the self, to the Self.

    Bhagavad Gita

Hi! Iā€™m Jena I am the owner of Dharma Yoga Loft. I am a yoga instructor, sound healer, energy practitioner, retreat leader, yoga teacher trainer and adventure guide. I am here to unlock the teacher within you and to support your journey to learn the vast and comprehensive system and science of yoga. I have been practicing yoga for a little over 20 years. I believe the ancient wisdom of yoga will alter your life forever.

Jena will be co-facilitating the Wilde Immersion Option of Healing Through Embodiment: Trauma- Informed 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training.