Elisha, founder of Finding Peace Within, has facilitated TCTSY in correctional settings for 15 years. Her work integrates trauma-sensitive yoga and clinical training to support individuals impacted by the criminal justice system.
Her TCTSY work is both a personal journey and an ongoing inspiration to identify and develop supportive resources within the communities she serves. She has witnessed how powerful the practice has been to build community and connection with others.
Through consistent, invitational practice, participants are offered space to notice sensations, build self-regulation as well as explore embodied agency and identity.
You can find our amazing Elisha on her IG: @elishafpw
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This original research makes TCTSY the first, and the only scientifically-validated Trauma Sensitive Yoga model.
In this comparative effectiveness randomized clinical trial, TCTSY was equivalent to cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in reducing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, with both groups improving significantly.
The higher treatment completion rate for TCTSY indicates its higher acceptability as an effective and acceptable PTSD treatment for women veterans with PTSD related to military sexual trauma (MST) that could address current VA PTSD treatment limitations.
Read the full study at the link in bio!
@jamanetwork #tctsy #ptsd #traumasensitiveyoga #clinicaltrial #yoga
Get certified in the original trauma sensitive yoga model — from anywhere in the world!
Our next certification program will run from September 2026 - March 2027.
Applications are OPEN through August 15th, 2026.
WHY TCTSY?
💥 Each participant receives individual 1-1 mentorship throughout the entire program
💥 Participants are paired with peer-to-peer support groups and partnerships
💥 Only TCTSY is structured into four time-zone and language-based cohorts: North America, Europe, Australasia, and Spanish-Speaking.
💥 Approved for 26.5 CECs for social workers with ASWB.
💥 Approved as a 300-hour training with Yoga Alliance.
QUICK FACTS & INFO
- TCTSY Certification Program begins early September and concludes at the end of March; approximately 28 weeks, with a break mid-December to early January.
- The program is delivered online in asynchronous format, although it is not self-paced. Each module is released weekly to ensure concurrent content delivery and appropriate time to study and integrate course materials.
- Participants can estimate a commitment of 12 hours per week for this certification program to complete assignments and review materials.
Learn more and submit your application at the link in bio!
**All applicants must complete a Foundations in TCTSY Trauma Sensitive Yoga training with one of our licensed global trainers, regardless of background experience with trauma or yoga.**
#traumasensitiveyoga #tctsy #traumainformed #complextrauma #yoga
The urgency to support someone often masks the physiological toll taken on those providing the care.
When caregivers or helping professionals operate from a state of sustained survival responses and urgency, the capacity to facilitate co-regulation for the other ones is fundamentally compromised.
Maybe it’s time to rethink what healing and supporting others mean.
It’s not about seeing people as problems to fix.
It’s about understanding that of course their bodies were responding the way they did, to survive.
It’s not about fixing.
Healing doesn’t happen when being seen as a problem.
It’s about
being safe,
being present,
as a witness,
as a companion,
without a verdict.
Recordings of the 7th Annual Online International Conference on Trauma & Embodiment available for purchase:
/conference
Trauma-Sensitive Somatic Coaching and Healing:
www.adawong.life
#tctsy #cptsd #ptsd #traumahealing #traumainformed
YOGA SENSIBLE AL TRAUMA - Curso Oficial 20 Horas
12-14 | ONLINE
Formación básica en yoga sensible al trauma: práctica centrada en el cuerpo y basada en evidencia científica. Para profesionales que buscan integrar herramientas corporales conscientes en su trabajo terapéutico.
DIRIGIDO A:
Profesionales de salud mental, educación y servicios sociales
Maestros de yoga que quieren crear espacios más seguros e inclusivos
Personas en proceso de sanación personal que buscan nuevas herramientas
CERTIFICACIONES OFICIALES:
✓ Center for Trauma & Embodiment (CFTE)
✓ Asociación Internacional de Terapeutas de Yoga (IAYT) - 18.5 CEC
✓ Yoga Alliance - 20 CEC
✓ Pre-requisito para Certificación TCTSY 300 horas
QUÉ APRENDERÁS:
Cómo el yoga puede ser una herramienta de recuperación cuando se practica con consciencia del trauma. Técnicas para crear espacios seguros donde el cuerpo pueda volver a ser un lugar de confianza.
DETALLES:
📅 12 al 14 de junio
⏰ Viernes 12 Junio: 16:00 – 19:00 hrs; Sábado 13 y Domingo 14: 9.30AM – 2.30PM
📍 ONLINE
💰 $4,100 MXN
INFORMACIÓN COMPLETA E INSCRIPCIONES:
🌐 /taller-20-horas-introductorio/
“Menos es más. En una práctica tan sencilla, se puede recuperar la confianza y volver a sentir el cuerpo como un lugar seguro.”
Nuestra formación de 20 horas en los Fundamentos del Yoga Sensible al Trauma (TCTSY) es una introducción a los principios téoricos y elementos claves de la metodología, asi como las aplicaciones de esta práctica de yoga con más de 20 años de investigaciones, que evidencian sus beneficios para el tratamiento del trauma relacional.
Súmate a la próxima edición del Curso en modalidad online-en vivo
🗓️ sábado 30 y domingo 31 de mayo 2026 de 9am a 5pm
⏰ Zona horaria Buenos Aires
💫 Abierta a profesionales de la salud mental, salud en general, educación, servicios sociales, profesorxs/maestrxs de yoga y personas interesadas en una práctica informada en trauma.
👩🏽🏫 Docente: Carolina Frontini
Lic. en Psicología. Facilitadora Certificada en TCTSY.
Formadora autorizada por Center for Trauma & Embodiment en España y Argentina.
🎓 Certificación oficial CFTE
📚 20 CECs Yoga Alliance | 18 CECs IAYT
➡️ Esta formación es requisito para postular a la Certificación oficial de Facilitador/a TCTSY (300 horas).
Te esperamos para profundizar en una práctica basada en evidencia, centrada en la elección, la seguridad y el acompañamiento respetuoso.
Más información e inscripciones en yogasensiblealtrauma.org o contactando al +34 633199856 🙏
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Something we know about the TCTSY facilitator community that doesn't get said enough.
The people doing this work are often living this work. Which means when we speak about survivorship, we are not speaking to a separate group. We are speaking to the room we are already in.
That changes how we have to show up. It changes the language we use. It changes what we owe to the people sitting across from us and to ourselves.
Built for trauma survivors — by clinicians, researchers, and survivors.
What is the TCTSY Foundational Training?
This 20-hour training introduces the foundations of Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) — an evidence-informed, body-based approach developed specifically for complex trauma and PTSD.
Participants explore:
• Trauma theory, attachment, and neuroscience
• Interoception and embodied awareness
• The neurophysiology of stress and trauma
• Choice-based and trauma-sensitive facilitation
• Foundations of the TCTSY model
• Anti-oppressive and trauma-informed care
• Chair-based and mat-based experiential practices
• Small group integration and discussion of the material
Designed for therapists, yoga teachers, healthcare providers, educators, and helping professionals wanting a deeper understanding of trauma-informed, body-based care.
Learn more: 🔗to trainings in bio
#TCTSY #TraumaSensitiveYoga #TraumaInformedCare #yogateachertrainingcourse #therapisttraining
💫 Profundamente agradecida a la Asociación Canaria de Neuropsiquiatría y Salud Mental @asociacioncanariasaludmental y a Lorena Navarro por la invitación y la excelente organización del taller Práctica corporal con enfoque relacional: una introducción al Yoga Sensible al Trauma (TCTSY).
El encuentro tuvo lugar en la sede del Colegio Oficial de Enfermería de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, @coenfermerossc a quienes agradezco especialmente por ceder el espacio para la realización del taller.
Gracias también a la participación de psiquiatras, psicólogos, enfermeros, profesores de yoga y demás profesionales que asistieron, por su compromiso, interés y apertura para reflexionar conjuntamente sobre la integración del cuerpo en el tratamiento del trauma.
Un honor poder compartir y seguir impulsando un enfoque corporal y sensible al trauma en el ámbito de la salud mental.
📲 Descubre el impacto del TCTSY en la sanación de vivencias de trauma. ¿Te animas a conocer esta metodología?
#yogaparatrauma #acompanamientoeneltrauma #sanacioncuerpomente #tctsyformacion #yogaterapeutico
Trauma takes something specific away from people.
Not just safety. Not just trust. It takes away the experience of being in connection with another person without that connection coming at a cost. Without having to perform, defer, manage, or disappear some part of yourself in order to stay in the relationship.
Shared Authentic Experience is one of the core pillars of TCTSY, and it exists as a direct response to that loss.
In a TCTSY session, the facilitator isn't outside the experience observing it. They're in it. Moving alongside participants, making their own choices about their own body, taking up their own form in real time. Not demonstrating. Not modeling the correct version. Just present, in their own body, in the same space.
The facilitator might make a different choice than the participant. They might move differently, hold something longer, skip something entirely. That's not inconsistency. That's the point. Two people in the same room, each responding to their own internal experience, both fully present. Connected without being synchronized. Together without one person having authority over the other's body.
For someone whose experience of relationship has been shaped by trauma — by having their needs overridden, their body controlled, their choices made for them — this is not a small thing.
It's a chance to be in connection with another person and remain, at the same time, fully themselves.
That's what Shared Authentic Experience is trying to create. Not a therapeutic technique. A different kind of relationship. One that doesn't ask anyone to disappear in order to belong.
Sometimes healing begins in spaces where people feel less alone.
✨Join us May 29–31 virtually or in person at Namaspa in Bend OR for a 20-Hour Foundational Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training exploring trauma-sensitive care, embodiment, relational presence, and body-based healing practices.
For yoga teachers, clinicians, helping professionals, and anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of trauma-informed embodied work. ✨Openviewyoga.com 🔗Link to trainings in Bio
#TraumaSensitiveYoga #TraumaInformedCare #Embodiment #traumasensitiveyoga #somatictherapy
Something new is happening at CFTE / TCTSY this summer — we're beginning on a path that will improve the skills of anyone who cares for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. Not just yoga teachers. Anyone.
The Specialty Certificate in Trauma Care for Children and Adolescents is a first-of-its-kind eight-week program. It opened exclusively to the TCTSY community as a pilot this summer and filled immediately.
The faculty alone is worth noting.
👉 Dave Emerson — Co-Founder of CFTE and TCTSY, two decades of experience facilitating TCTSY with youth, leading the program throughout.
👉 Dr. Kerry-Ann Williams, MD — Board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, Harvard Medical School faculty, host of the Black Mental Health Matters podcast.
👉 Ashli Owen Smith, PhD — Behavioral scientist specializing in trauma, mental health, and integrative approaches with underserved populations including refugees, incarcerated individuals, and LGBTQ+ communities.
👉 Venessa Bowers, MSW, LCSW-C, TCTSY-F — Clinical leader with two decades building CARF-accredited programs in child and adolescent services across Maryland.
👉 Rebecca Epstein — Executive Director of the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law, lead author of Girlhood Interrupted, which first quantified adultification bias against Black girls.
👉 Thalia González — Professor of Law, nationally recognized scholar in restorative justice, adultification bias, and health justice.
👉 Emmanuel Manirarora & Alexis Havugimana — Co-founders of Live Well Rwanda, bringing an international perspective on working with youth in non-clinical settings.
👉 Jesse Leavitt — Co-Founder of Our Fire Collective, twenty years of care work spanning youth organizing, peace circles, restorative justice, and trauma-sensitive yoga.
We couldn't be more excited to share this practice with you all, and grow our next endeavor. This one is a pilot. Watch this space.
*Please note, graduates are awarded a Certificate of Completion recognizing their advanced training, this program is not considered a certification.
