TRAINING LOCATIONS & DATES

ONLINE 2024

November 22 - 24, 2024 Australia and New Zealand Time Zones

ONLINE 2025

May 2 - 4, 2025 US Time Zones

June 6 - 4, 2025 African and European Time Zones

November 21 - 23, 2025 Australia and New Zealand Time Zones

Additional Training Dates and Locations in New Zealand

The Training 

This is a space to show up in a place of curiosity to understand how trauma may show up in the body, how it may manifest in different situations and experiences. You will leave with a practical and embodied ability to move forward in a growth based way.

This training is more than an education, it is a transformational learning experience. It is a training that offers you immediate tools and methods in order to instantaneously cultivate a more trauma-informed approach in your current classes, business, organization, and offerings.  

A holistic approach to discovering the connections between empowerment and resilience with personal exploration, invitational language, safe space creation, supportive solutions, and facilitating choice making. Join us to begin the shift from simply offering practices, to embodying your special role as a facilitator of restoration, wellness and community building by offering trauma-informed practices to all humans in diverse communities.

This Training is suitable for anyone working with individuals and/or groups who may be impacted by trauma:

• Mental Health or Pastoral Counselors

• Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants

• Educators

• Emergency Medical Personnel and First Responders

• Movement and Body Therapists

• Yoga Therapist/ Yoga Teacher

• Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professional

• Other Wellness Professionals, Coaches, and Retreat Providers

• Human Resource Manager & Business Owners

• Activists

• Social Workers

• Veterans, Active Duty Military, Government Employees, and their partners

During this training, participants will discover: 

• How trauma anatomically affects the nervous system 

• How to identify trauma symptoms and trigger responses 

• How to take a humanistic approach in all that you do

• Tools to promote biological resiliency, self-regulation and resolution

• Protocol and best practices in the field 

• Invitational language and facilitating choice-making

• Community building and outreach methods 

• Trauma stewardship and the importance of self-care 

• How to create safer, more inclusive and accessible spaces

• What post-traumatic growth is and how to hold hope as a possibility

• Embodied social justice and systemic change 

• Facilitation methods for healthcarepractitioners specific to the populations you are walking alongside

This 20-hour continued professional development and Yoga Alliance CEU training gives you the missing educational pieces as well as the space to explore somatic practices that will be useful for you both personally and professionally. 

Our approach is both bottom-up, drawing on body-based practices including  yoga, breathwork, and sensory awareness; and top-down with education around neuroscience, anatomy, and trauma.    

Is this training right for you?

​This is an educational training that promotes self & collective healing through experiential, embodied, and collaborative learning.

The weekend may hold components of self-reflection & personal healing. However, to respect the intention and purpose of this training, we ask that students refrain from sharing in-depth about personal trauma and/ or healing journeys. 

​If you require 1-1 support for trauma restoration, please seek support from a licensed professional.

TIERED PRICING & PAYMENT PLANS

Equity in Investment – Choosing your tier

We are committed to offering trainings, mentorships and opportunities that are of the highest quality, affordable and accessible while striving to keep equity and mutual exchange at the soul of how we serve.   

We recognize that we live in systems of inequity and we strive to find ways of finding balance within this. We feel that the deepest engagement and greatest benefit comes when there is a meaningful mutual exchange.  

For these reasons, we offer tiered pricing. There is an invitation to reflect on your access to resources and privilege, the value of this work, what you can genuinely afford, and what you might pay for comparable training programs. By committing to what is truly within your means you make it possible for others to show up within theirs and we are all grateful for this.

TIER 1 – For those who are financially well-resourced and who are able to contribute to our scholarship fund. Reflects the value of the course in Western economic markets.

TIER 2 – For those on medium incomes and access to financial resources who also are able to contribute to our scholarship fund.

TIER 3 – For those on lower incomes with caring responsibilities.

Price in SA Rands

TIER 1: R4500.00 - TIER 2: R3200.00 - TIER 3: R2500.00

Price in USD

TIER 1: $300 - TIER 2: $250 - TIER 3: $200

Price in Euro

TIER 1: €225 - TIER 2: €180 - TIER 3: €135

Price in New Zealand Dollars

TIER 1: $690 - TIER 2: $575 - TIER 3: $490

Payment Plans

Please contact director@legacymotion.org to set up a payment plan that fits your needs.

What is Trauma Informed?
Trauma-informed means taking into account past trauma and the resulting coping mechanisms when attempting to understand the behaviours of those we are working alongside. It means bringing empathy and compassion to every interaction and creating a safe and accessible space for all. 

 Why is Trauma Informed so important?

Stress and trauma can exist on a continuum and because of that, it is extremely important to understand this in the context of our past, today's world, and the future we want to work towards. This training gives you insight into individual and collective trauma, systemic causes of harm and trauma, as well as social justice and change-focused approaches. We explore how we can understand and integrate our own experience as well as how we can hold space for and walk alongside others. This training places an immense emphasis on knowing that we are not here to fix, change, or heal anyone else, but to be somatic witnesses and creative forces as we offer support along the way. Learn tools necessary for your own reflection and growth as well as ones to offer others regardless of the field or industry you work within and the people you work with. 

The body holds trauma to different degrees and complexities. As a facilitator, you are creating space for individuals to explore and connect with their breath, body and mind. Therefore it is important to be sure we are able to hold students in the wholeness of their experience, understand what may be happening for them on a physiological and neurological level, without needing to alter or change their experience. We are here to bear witness, allow, and hold space for transformation in their own time and way.

Trauma not only impacts how an individual functions and navigates the world, it influences how they relate to others and how communities relate to them. It impacts our society as a whole; institutions, systems, and structures have been built through trauma and continue to perpetuate it. In order to disrupt the cycle we must learn the nuances of how trauma shows up in the mind, body, and all interactions and dynamics. Becoming trauma-informed is a paradigm shift, it means seeing each person in their full diversity and intersectionality and allow them the dignity to evolve, heal, and transform. Through this, we begin to work towards the types of workplaces, systems, and institutions that we want to see; ones that are human-centred and equity-driven.

This is a space to show up in a place of curiosity to understand how trauma may show up in the body, how it may manifest in different situations and experiences. You will leave with a practical and embodied ability to move forward in a growth based way.

Through a better understanding of the body and how it is affected during certain circumstances and events (mentally, physically and emotionally), we as humans are able to ultimately return ourselves back to a balanced state of living, thus breaking the pattern of stress, anxiety, and eventually trauma within ourselves, our community and our globe.