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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.

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.

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’s Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate

Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians

$1,104.96 Value
Just $499.99!
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Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
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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.

Click here for course objectives and outline

Dr. Arielle Schwartz’s Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate
Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians

$1,104.96 Value
Just $499.99!


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BONUS! FREE LIVE Online Q&A with Dr. Schwartz,
6-Week Trauma-Informed Yoga PDF, & Digital Badge!
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6-Week Trauma-Informed Yoga Download

Even more… Get a full downloadable yoga sequence from Dr. Schwartz’s 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
Arielle Schwartz

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’s 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’s Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate
Somatic, Movement, & Polyvagal Techniques for Clinicians

$1,104.96 Value
Just $499.99!
GET STARTED
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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’s 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 many of these elements — making this a "certificate" program.

So while there are a lot of "certifications" out there — including some that are not endorsed by an actual certifying body or even taught by a licensed 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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