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Expand your practice and
empower
deep healing with the only trauma-informed yoga certificate designed for mental health
professionals.
Introducing the most premier yoga certificate for mental health professionals available today.
You get everything you need to confidently work with a traumatized nervous system—without becoming a yoga teacher overnight or sacrificing your clinical foundation.
This all-new certificate in trauma-informed yoga for mental health clinicians gives you everything you need to confidently work with a traumatized nervous system—without becoming a yoga teacher overnight or sacrificing your clinical foundation.
Developed with renowned traumatologist, bestselling author, and registered yoga teacher Dr. Arielle Schwartz, this training blends Polyvagal Theory, somatic psychology, and trauma-informed yoga into a practical, step-by-step approach.
No fluff. No guesswork. No jargon. Just a clear path to help clients feel safe in their bodies and regulated in their nervous systems—using tools you can apply right away.
Inside this yoga for clinicians certificate course, you’ll learn how to:
- Confidently introduce trauma-informed yoga therapy into sessions—with clear guidance on informed consent, boundaries, and trauma sensitivity
- Increase clients’ body awareness and emotional regulation with no-touch somatic tools
- Support nervous system balance with polyvagal-informed breathing, movement and postures
- Structure start-to-finish therapeutic yoga sessions that target each client’s unique goals
- Integrate techniques from parts work, EMDR, and more
Whether you’ve been practicing yoga for years or you’re just thinking about expanding your skillset in this area…
This is the most comprehensive therapeutic yoga certificate available — and it's designed specifically for you!
PLUS, you get a FREE 6-Week Yoga for Trauma Recovery PDF and, for a limited time only, a 60-min Q&A with Dr. Arielle Schwartz!
By the end of this course, you’ll move beyond simply ‘using techniques’ to embodying trauma-informed yoga as a confident, integrated part of your clinical presence…
Register now to expand what’s possible for healing in every session.
Dr. Arielle Schwartz’ Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate
Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians$1,436.45 Value
Just $649.99!
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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Saying About Dr. Arielle Schwartz's Training!
"Arielle masterfully bridges her well-developed
model of therapeutic yoga with polyvagal theory.
In doing so, she has creatively found paths to
support the recovery of her readers as they
share, through the powerful and insightful tools
embedded in yoga, a journey of re-embodiment,
co-regulation, healing, and
discovery."
— Stephen W. Porges, PhD
— Stephen W. Porges, PhD
"Dr. Schwartz is an excellent presenter and
researcher! I consider myself a seasoned trauma
specialist and I learned so much from this
presentation and course!"
— Marie G., PhD
— Marie G., PhD
"Outstanding presenter. This was one of the
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Presenter was quite engaging with the
participants. Just awesome!"
— Judy H., Psychologist
— Judy H., Psychologist
"I LOVED this training! By far, one of the most
insightful, profound, and beneficial (personally
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— Russ J.
— Russ J.
"Dr. Schwartz has been, hands down, the most
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whole soul who knows how to show others what it
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Therapeutic Yoga for Clinicians Certificate Outline
Part 1: Foundational Skills
Module 1 — Treating Trauma Through the
Body
Discover how somatic psychology reframes trauma as something the body can both carry and release.
Key Takeaways
- View trauma on a continuum so you can treat the whole story
- Zero in on deep-rooted attachment wounds from childhood and developmental trauma
- Expand your lens to work with legacy burdens and intergenerational trauma
- Understand the impact of cultural, systemic, and ancestral weight in collective trauma and collective memory
- Tailor your approach to PTSD, C-PTSD, and dissociative symptoms
Demonstrations & Experiential Exercises
- What awakens you, Playing with Stillness, Your Resiliency Factors, Prayer hands, Grounding blanket
Module 2 — The Integration of Clinical Trauma
Recovery
Models & Yoga
See how the 8 limbs of yoga align with phase-based trauma recovery for safe, structured healing.
Key Takeaways
- Get grounded in a phase-based approach to trauma recovery
- Explore the 8 limbs of yoga through a trauma-informed lens
- Assess clients’ self-relationship with the Watts Connectedness Scale
- Hold ‘sacred’ space for your clients' sense of meaning—without crossing into religious territory
- Harness mindfulness to help clients shift from reactivity to regulation
- Understand trauma as a value-based search for meaning and learn how to help clients rewrite their narratives with depth, dignity, and purpose
Demonstrations & Experiential Exercises
- Integrating Values into Daily Life
Module 3 — Somatic Therapy, Polyvagal
Theory, and
Interpersonal
Neurobiology for Trauma Treatment
Learn to read the nervous system in real time and guide clients toward safety and connection.
Key Takeaways & Skill Acquisition
- Polyvagal theory to help clients navigate between states of activation and rest
- Learn how to co-regulate effectively
- Tune into subtle cues around boundaries so you can adjust your presence and pacing
- Turn therapeutic ruptures into moments of growth and reconnection
- Use compassion-based practices that help clients move through internal blocks
Demonstrations & Experiential Exercises
- Co-Regulation, 4 Embodied Self-Compassion practices, 5-point check-in for starting session, Shy Blanket, Proximity Awareness
Part 2: Clinical Application
Module 4 — Neuroplasticity & Natural Vagus
Nerve
Stimulation in Trauma
Recovery
Rewire the nervous system and build resilience with breathwork, movement, and Polyvagal-informed practices.
Key Takeaways
- Understand how to harness neuroplasticity to create change
- Work with heart rate variability (HRV) as a marker of regulation and resilience
- Support clients’ in building a more flexible, responsible nervous system through vagal tone
- Create relational safety with client-centered practices from Deb Dana’s polyvagal work
Demonstrations & Experiential exercises:
- Gratitude, Balanced Breathing, Humming
Module 5 — Integrate Mindful Movement and
Stillness
in
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Master trauma-sensitive yoga, posture, and movement to activate safety, release tension, and rebuild nervous system resilience.
Key Takeaways
- Explore how gentle myofascial release can unlock stored emotions
- Use bilateral movements to enhance brain integration
- Introduce dual awareness practices that bridge inner and outer experience
- Restore stability with spinal movements, seated grounding, and power poses
- Support vestibular integration with wall presses and balance-based exercises to
- Promote reflex integration and reset the body’s natural rhythms with rhythmic motions like cat-cow, twists, and rocking
- Offer deeply calming restorative yoga poses allowing for nervous system repair
Demonstrations & Experiential exercises
- Wall Press & Boundary Awareness, Reflex Integration for nervous system health, Settling into stillness, Restorative Stillness
Part 3: Yoga Therapy in Practice
Module 6 — Start-to-Finish Structuring of
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Sessions
Design inclusive, trauma-sensitive yoga sessions that expand regulation and connection for clients of all abilities.
Key Takeaways
- Adapt your approach for clients with a range of abilities, backgrounds, and histories
- Master the art of using invitational language instead of commands
- Know how to respond to emotional overwhelm with grounding and support
- Use somatic movement to help clients expand their ability to experience and regulate emotional states
- Apply parts work on the yoga mat to help clients navigate inner conflict
Demonstrations & Experiential exercises:
- Build Affect and Sensation Tolerance, Working with Somatic Tension, Mindful Movement, Finding your voice
Module 7 — Practical Considerations When
Doing
Trauma-Informed
Yoga
Gain confidence integrating trauma-informed yoga with safe, ethical, adaptable session design ‐ in person or telehealth.
Key Takeaways
- Set up your virtual or in-person office that supports relaxation, openness, and body awareness
- Feel confident with informed consent
- Use screen tools effectively to ensure clients are safe to participate
- Set and maintain clear boundaries, especially around physical touch
- Create clear documentation that collaborative care teams can understand
- Set clear goals and intentions for each therapeutic yoga session
Module 8 — In-Session Demonstrations of
Therapeutic
Yoga for Trauma
Recovery
Sit alongside Dr. Schwartz as she guides you through three yoga-therapy sessions with differing clients. You’ll see how to navigate common and uncommon challenges to doing therapeutic yoga both online and in-office.
Demonstration 1: Pacing, Co-Regulation, Rewriting Inner
Narratives
Go inside the session as Dr. Schwartz works with a client who is navigating life after abuse and a recent divorce. Through themes of support vs. freedom and rebirth after loss, you’ll see how yoga therapy gently helps Liz move from performance to authentic confidence.
Skill Acquisition:
- Learn how to pace a trauma-informed yoga session to match your client’s nervous system
- Practice effective types of co-regulation
- Explore therapeutic yoga movements for safety and empowerment
- Support clients in finding peace with conflicting inner parts
- Help clients restructure limiting beliefs formed through trauma
Demonstration 2: Somatic Yoga & Parts Work (online session)
Join Dr. Schwartz and a volunteer navigating legacy trauma as a Black American. Through online yoga therapy, witness how embodied practices help her explore the tension between authenticity and relational safety—grounding parts work in somatic presence.
Skill Acquisition:
- Learn how to troubleshoot and adapt yoga therapy sessions virtually
- Guide clients through shame and internal conflict using embodied techniques
- Shift between fear and safety cues in real time
- Help clients isolate and work through core inner conflicts
- Move clients toward cognitive integration of childhood trauma
Demonstration 3: Chair-Based Yoga, EMDR Integration & Somatic
Reprocessing
Step into the room with Dr. Schwartz as she supports a client living with chronic pain, adoption trauma, and neurodivergence. Through integrative EMDR and somatic interventions, you’ll learn how to deepen trauma processing—right from the therapy chair.
Skill Acquisition:
- Use therapeutic yoga from the chair—no mat needed
- Combine EMDR with somatic tracking and bilateral stimulation
- Work with moment-to-moment Subjective Units of Distress (SUDs)
- Identify and repair “missing” early developmental experiences
- Support neurodivergent clients and chronic pain presentations through embodied work
Therapist Cleansing Practice for Rejuvenation
- A short practice to let go of clients after each session, based in parts work, somatic resonance, lifeforce energy and countertransference.
Dr. Arielle Schwartz’ Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Certificate
Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians
$1,436.45 Value
Just $649.99!
Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians
$1,436.45 Value
Just $649.99!
BONUS! FREE LIVE Online Q&A with Dr. Schwartz,
6-Week Trauma-Informed Yoga PDF, & Digital Badge!
6-Week Trauma-Informed Yoga PDF, & Digital Badge!
Over $390 Value, FREE!
Live Online Q&A 1/29/2026 at 11am CST
That’s right! Your registration for this certificate course includes a spot in Dr. Schwartz’ live online Q&A session. You’ll have direct access to Dr. Schwartz to ask questions about the content, how you’re integrating what you’ve learned, and anything else!
6-Week Trauma-Informed Yoga Download
Even more… Get a full downloadable yoga sequence from Dr. Schwartz’ book, Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery: Applying the Principles of Polyvagal Theory for Self-Discovery, Embodied Healing, and Meaningful Change. Use it for individual or group therapeutic yoga sessions, maybe even for your own personal growth!
Downloadable Digital Badge
Let everyone know you’ve completed this training course! Download your digital badge of completion to share with colleagues, employers, and potential clients. Add it to your personal website, resume, social media… wherever you promote your incredible practice!
Meet Dr. Arielle Schwartz, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C
World-Leading Traumatologist. Yogi. Bestselling Author. Practicing Psychologist.
When Dr. Schwartz teaches – therapists listen, because her tools not only work – they’ve redefined what therapists are doing in their sessions.
Dr. Schwartz’s unique and integrative expertise has set her apart in the field of psychotherapy. She founded the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy and developed Resilience Informed Therapy, an integrative model of care facilitating recovery from childhood trauma, PTSD, complex-PTSD and dissociation. She’s a Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional Level II, an EMDR consultant, somatic psychology expert, trained in mindfulness-based therapies and relational psychotherapy.
Beyond this, Dr. Schwartz is a renowned Polyvagal Theory expert. Even Dr. Stephen Porges has praised Arielle’s work, which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions.
A Registered Yoga Teacher, Dr. Schwartz has been teaching therapeutic yoga since 2008 and is the author of Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery, one of the most widely referenced guides to applied Polyvagal Theory in trauma recovery.
A sought-after international speaker, Dr. Schwartz’ work can be found at Psychotherapy Networker, Art of Living, Omega Institute, and many other places.
Click here for information about Arielle Schwartz
Dr. Arielle Schwartz’ Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Certificate
Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians
$1,436.45 Value
Just $649.99!
Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians
$1,436.45 Value
Just $649.99!
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Frequently Asked Questions
Nope, you sure don’t! Dr. Schwartz has covered all the bases so whether you’re new to yoga and somatic therapy or practicing for decades you’ll have everything you need. You’ll begin with foundational education in both trauma and yoga to set the stage for more elevated and integrative training that blends the two.
Whether you’re just curious about yoga and somatic therapy or you’ve been practicing yoga for decades, this course bridges a critical gap in therapy training for mental health professionals, you get the most relevant and effective yoga and somatic therapy techniques to use in your sessions.
Dr. Schwartz has made this training content simple to learn, easy-to-use in sessions, and you’ll likely see yourself grow both personally and professionally with this course!
This course was personally designed by Dr. Arielle Schwartz for mental health professionals who wanted to add yoga and somatic healing strategies to their trauma-informed clinical toolbox. Whether you’re new to yoga, practicing for decades or even a registered yoga teacher yourself, this course is specifically created to help bridge the gap between clinical interventions and “on the mat” (or in the chair!) movements. Dr. Schwartz’ experience, wisdom and charisma will take you further now matter where you are in your journey as a therapist interested in body-based approaches to lasting recovery.
A certificate is a document issued upon the completion of a training program. It
signifies that you have trained on specific skills, have trained with a
particular individual, or have acquired knowledge in a particular subject.
Certification on the other hand often requires you to meet specific
standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include additional practice,
consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing education
requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include
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trainer — you need to be the judge of what adds value to your work and
your ability to help your clients.
This certificate does
distinguish you as a professional who has trained more extensively in the area
of therapeutic yoga with Dr. Arielle Schwartz… and it's
an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients and peers.
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