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Trauma Sensitive Yoga workshops
For yoga teachers and mental health practitioners, Edwina’s workshops in Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) lay the foundations for a more trauma informed approach to healing.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga is a body-led therapy that can play an important part in an individual’s pathway to healing. Developed by the Justice Resource Institute’s Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (as it is officially known, or TCTSY), has been shown through empirical research to reduce the symptoms of complex trauma and PTSD.
Training in TCTSY is a valuable extension for yoga teachers, health professionals and mental health workers who wish to provide a body and breath-based treatment option as part of their services.
Edwina is currently the only licensed trainer in TCTSY in Queensland covering QLD, NSW and NT. Read more about Edwina’s experience in TCTSY here.
If you would like to offer people you work with a way of deepening their recovery through embodied healing and TCTSY, Edwina offers extensive training for practitioners.
Official TCTSY 20hr Workshops
For yoga teachers, mental health care professionals and people working with individuals and communities who have experienced trauma.
This 20hr TCTSY Foundation Workshop will introduce you to the foundations, core concepts and applications of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) for adults and youth affected by PTSD, CPTSD, developmental and/or complex trauma.
With both online and in-person delivery options, this interactive workshop facilitated by TCTSY licensed trainer Edwina Kempe gives yoga teachers and mental health practitioners everything they need to make their sessions more trauma informed. It is also designed to support those working in the mental health field introduce body-led treatment when working with people affected by PTSD, developmental and/or complex trauma.
You will learn about specific practices and principles for facilitating movement and breath work that is trauma informed, including an introduction to:
Trauma Theory, Attachment Theory & Neuroscience (Interoceptive Theory)
Neurophysiology and Biology of Stress and Trauma (and how trauma impacts the brain)
Spectrum of Trauma Impacts and Complex Trauma as Lived Experience
Power and Oppression
Key Elements of TCTSY Methodology
Building Trauma Sensitive Relationships
TCTSY Practice and Practice Facilitation
Challenges in Implementing TCTSY
Overview of Studies on TCTSY
Upcoming Workshops
Online workshops
ONLINE Schedule 2025 coming soon
A 2 day, 20hr official TCTSY workshop
An exciting interactive learning environment.
You will receive:
Access to pre-reading/self-study from the resources page at www.traumasensitiveyoga.com
PowerPoint slides, written resources and links.
Over 6 hours of recorded pre- and mid-workshop content including TCTSY practice videos from TCTSY trainers and supervisors, including training videos from TCTSY co-founders David Emerson and Jenn Turner
12.5 hours of LIVE ONLINE workshops delivered over 2 days (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
In-person workshops
ATHERTON, QLD IN-PERSON Thursday 9 October & Friday 10 October, 2025
A 2 day, 20hr official TCTSY workshop
I can come to you throughout NSW, QLD & NT!
Currently taking inquiries at edwina@edwinakempe.com.au for 20hr workshops across these states in 2025.
Want me to come to your workplace, network or yoga teacher training?
Tailored agency specific trainings. Delivering training in mental health, justice, education and community settings throughout Australia.
An exciting learning experience including both pre-recorded and in-person learning.
You will receive:
Access to pre-reading/self-study from the resources page at www.traumasensitiveyoga.com
PowerPoint slides, written resources and links.
Over 6 hours of recorded pre- and mid-workshop content including TCTSY practice videos from TCTSY trainers and supervisors and training videos from TCTSY co-founders David Emerson and Jenn Turner
12.5 hours of in-person workshops delivered over 2 days (approximately 9.30am to 5.30pm each day)
Online access may be available, please inquire about online attendance.
Training investment
The payment scale for investment in TCTSY training is based on your self-determined access to resources, privilege, social capital and your current financial situation. Prices inclusive of GST.
| Sufficient access to social capital: | $616 |
| Adequate access to social capital (AA-66-550): | $550 |
| Limited access to social capital (LA-154-462): | $462 |
To access the prices for your self-determined adequate or limited access to social capital, use the relevant code above when booking.
If paying in one lump sum is not accessible for you at this time, payment plans are available.
Additionally, there are 50% scholarships available for people experiencing significant financial difficulty.
Please submit your payment plan or scholarship request to Edwina here.
Testimonials
“An amazing training experience…”
I would like to thank you for such an amazing training experience. You really made me feel welcome and the space you created felt safe and so accepting. I absolutely loved the whole experience and would love to expand on what I have learnt with the certificate course next September.
LAURA, COUNSELLOR, BRISBANE
“So considerate and compassionate…”
Your training workshop really helped me to discover what invitational language is about and why relationship safety is key in this type of work. I was so impressed with your way of facilitating the workshop and how you very clearly and simply presented quite complex topics. Also, your caring manner – so considerate and compassionate – giving us the right amount of space to integrate, engage and have pauses in between. So, boundless gratitude, Edwina.
PRIYADARA, INTEGRAL YOGA & MEDITATION TEACHER, NEW ZEALAND
“Wonderful opportunity to grow…”
Thank you for the workshop – the time, the effort, the extensive material and the wonderful opportunity to grow towards this light. I found the workshop informative, specific and supportive.
SUZANNE, YOGA TEACHER, SYDNEY
Bring a more trauma-informed approach to your services through Trauma Sensitive Yoga. Book your workshop here.
Additional information
This workshop is facilitated by TCTSY JRI Licensed Trainer, Edwina Kempe (TCTSY-F, TCTSY-T, TCTSY Certification Supervisor, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AASW) & Registered Yoga Teacher (Yoga Australia) and is part of The Center of Trauma & Embodiment at JRI Yoga Program, and therefore is an official Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Workshop/trainings accredited by JRI & the Director of the Center for Trauma & Embodiment at JRI David Emerson.
This workshop satisfies one of the pre-requisites to apply for the 300hr Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Certification Program held annually live online and pre-recorded online from September to April.
This 20hr workshop provides International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and Yoga Australia (YA) members continuing education credits of 18hrs and 20hrs respectively. Credits may also be available with other professional registration bodies.
This workshop is solely for professional development and is not a certificate program. To be certified in TCTSY, completion of the 300hr TCTSY Certification is required.
This workshop is not intended as an intervention for those who have experienced trauma. Talking about trauma, even in the context of professional training, can be triggering/overwhelming.
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) workshops – such as those offered by Edwina Kempe – are distinct and separate from other informal variations of trauma-informed yoga training programs available to practitioners. Please use discretion when engaging services that do not have TCTSY certification.
Cancellation policy
Refunds are available 4 weeks prior to the start of the workshop, less a 10% administration fee.
Refunds are NOT available within 4 weeks of the start of the workshop.
Transfers to an alternative existing scheduled workshop hosted by Edwina Kempe will only be provided 4 weeks prior to the start of the original workshop, transfers are not available within 4 weeks of the workshop start date.
All transfers will incur a 10% administration fee.
Further information
For more information, resources, and for links to the evidence base of TCTSY: