This YACEP accredited weekend course with senior teacher Nina Vukas (E-RYT 500, RPYT, C-IAYT) offers yoga teachers a 13-hour immersion in trauma-sensitive practices, with hours counting toward a 300-hour teacher training coming at SOMA in 2025/2026. This course provides essential skills to enhance safety, accessibility, and healing in yoga, making it impactful for all students. You can book the full weekend or single days.
Participants will receive two of Nina's books, Safe Space: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and Embodied Calm: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Nidra.
On Saturday, the course explores the fundamentals of trauma-informed yoga teaching, focusing on creating safer, inclusive spaces. Sunday dives into trauma-sensitive Yoga Nidra, blending restorative poses and trauma-sensitive techniques to foster deep relaxation.
Saturday | Introduction to Safe Space: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga lecture
In the lecture, we will cover the basic principles of teaching yoga in a trauma-informed way, which will help you create safer spaces that support healing, cultivate trust, and allow each participant to feel seen and respected. We’ll explore techniques for cueing, language, choices etc., all designed to encourage choice, empowerment, and personal agency in your students. This approach can make your teaching more inclusive, sensitive, and accessible to everyone, whether or not they have a trauma background.
While this is only an introductory lesson, not covering everything we offer at Spanda Institute's Safe Space Trauma-Sensitive module, you’ll leave with valuable insights into trauma, the nervous system, and essential tools for creating safer spaces.
Flow into Embodiment Yoga Class
Using the principles of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, this class is designed to guide you to connect deeply with your body/mind through mindful movement, breath, mudras, meditation and chanting, allowing each asana and vinyasa to become a pathway to self-discovery.
Through flowing sequences and intentional pauses, we’ll cultivate a state of embodied presence, where each movement reflects a deeper connection to yourself. We’ll close the class with chanting, deepening our connection to ourselves and each other.
Sunday | Embodied Calm: Trauma Sensitive Yoga Nidra
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Nidra workshop
This workshop is designed for yoga teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of trauma-sensitive principles in the context of Yoga Nidra. Whether you’re looking to adapt the traditional Yoga Nidra practice you already teach, or are interested in learning how to guide Yoga Nidra sessions with a trauma-informed approach from the start, this workshop offers practical tools and insights. You’ll gain skills to create a safe, supportive environment that respects each participant’s unique journey, making the practice accessible, empowering, and healing for all students, regardless of their background or experience.
Embodied Calm Yoga Class
This deeply nourishing class combines an hour of gentle, restorative yoga with 30 minutes of Embodied Calm Yoga Nidra, creating a powerful space for relaxation and nervous system regulation. Using trauma-sensitive principles, we’ll create a safe, welcoming environment that encourages rest, release, and reconnection with the body. The restorative yoga poses are designed to support the body in a state of ease and gentle opening, while the guided Yoga Nidra practice offers an opportunity to reach profound states of calm and clarity. This class is an invitation to slow down, unwind, and restore the balance within.
* Open for Yoga teachers and trainees.
Full weekend workshop: £175 (13 hours of training + Nina’s two books worth £30)
One day workshop: £97 (6,5 of training + one of Nina’s books)
Cancellations: Please note that we are not able to offer refunds for teacher training course bookings.
Location: SOMA Yoga is nested in the garden of the Battersea Reach complex (SW181TA) inside the bbodance, on the first floor. You can arrive by train to Wandsworth Town station (6’ walk from the studio), by bus (Petergate or Bridgend Road stop, 2’ walk from the studio) or by Uber boat (Plantation Wharf Pier).
Parking: Coming with a car? There is a car park at Battersea Reach (pay per hour) or free parking in Eltringham Street (2’ from the studio) where you are free to park anytime except 3-4 pm.
About Nina Vukas
E-RYT 500, RPYT, C-IAYT
My lifelong curiosity about the human body, mind, and existence has always guided my journey, drawing me to a deep, ongoing study of yoga and holistic disciplines like Ayurveda alongside scientific fields such as anatomy, physiology, psychology, and nutrition. Driven by a desire to live a holistic and sustainable life—and to inspire others to do the same—I’m passionate about supporting others in healing, growing, and thriving through my work as an educator, author, blogger, and therapist.
Nina is a program director of teacher trainings we do at SOMA! Read her full biography here.
Instagram: @nina__vukas