Teaching from the Still Point
A 50-hour training in trauma-informed yoga and nervous system regulation.
Apply for the TrainingIt is so lovely to have you here, thank you for your interest in this training.
The teacher's nervous system is the classroom's nervous system, right?
When you stand at the front of a room, or hold a one to one session, your students begin to entrain to you. If you're anxious, rushing, performing, they feel it. If you're grounded and genuinely at ease, they feel that too.
For students carrying high levels of stress (a lot of students in any class!) or PTSD, CPTSD, or a history of addiction; whose own nervous systems are already primed for threat, this matters even more. A dysregulated teacher can quietly confirm a traumatised nervous system's deepest fear: that nowhere is truly safe. A regulated one offers proof, felt in the body, that safety is possible.
This is why the saying, 'we can walk in the footsteps of kings, but we must do the walking' is so important. We cannot guide others into stillness we haven't found ourselves. We cannot invite vulnerability from an unsteady place.
This training exists to help you become that steady presence through genuine, embodied understanding of your own nervous system. This is a wonderful skill in any class or session and essential if you'd like to offer classes in the space of rehabilitation.
The Curriculum
Across 50 hours, blending theory, practice, and teaching guidelines, you'll build a complete, evidence-informed foundation in trauma-sensitive breathwork, meditation and yoga, as well as nervous system regulation. Understanding the relevant science and philosophy so you know what to do with it the moment you're in the room.
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The autonomic nervous system, Polyvagal Theory's three states, and the Window of Tolerance not simply as a theory but felt experience. You'll learn to recognise hyperarousal and hypoarousal in yourself and in a room, so that mid-class, when a student's breathing changes or they start to fidget and become restless, you know exactly what you're seeing and what to do next.
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The research behind trauma-informed yoga including van der Kolk's landmark trial showing that over half of women with treatment-resistant PTSD no longer met diagnostic criteria after ten weeks of trauma-sensitive yoga. You'll understand why: interoception, the felt sense of safety, and the body as an efficient route back to a disturbance that began in the body - so you can explain, with confidence, why this work belongs in the room when someone asks, and design a class that's helpful.
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness as a living practice and tools to help us hold what's difficult with both awareness and compassion. You'll learn to teach presence safely, distinguishing genuine meditative states from dissociation or flooding, so that you can choose exactly what to say when you are teaching meditation based on what you see happening in the room.
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Pranayama reframed for trauma-sensitive teaching including the critical difference between breath as invitation and breath as command, why breath retention needs particular care, and the tools that reliably downregulate an activated nervous system. So you can build class plans that bring people from an activated system to a calm one, without second-guessing whether you've chosen the right practice for the person in front of you.
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The principles of trauma-sensitive yoga: invitational language, genuine choice, titrated intensity, and sequencing that supports regulation rather than overwhelming it, so you can sequence an entire class with confidence, knowing your cues are building more safety.
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The differences between PTSD and CPTSD, the neurobiology of addiction as a nervous system's attempt at self-regulation, and what it means to hold space for someone in recovery. So that you can walk into a rehab centre or residential clinic interview and speak the language of that setting, prepared with what to do and what to avoid in your teaching.
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Language and voice as trauma-informed tools. Creating physical and relational safety. Knowing the edge of your scope of practice, and what to do when you reach it so you know exactly who to call, where to refer a student, and how to build the professional network that makes teaching in these spaces sustainable, not something you're doing alone.
We cannot guide others into stillness we haven't found ourselves. We cannot invite vulnerability from an unsteady place.
Bryony LancasterIs This You?
You don't need prior trauma training. What matters is your willingness to engage with this material in yourself first, before offering it to others.
A 200-hour yoga teacher training (or equivalent meditation teacher course or training), and an established personal practice.
Honesty First
This training is the culmination of decades of study, teaching, and lived experience in yoga, meditation and working with people in addiction recovery and trauma. But Bryony is not a trained therapist, or trauma counsellor, and this training does not qualify you to become one either.
While what is offered here is powerful: breath, movement, mindfulness, psychology and presence, held within a real understanding of the nervous system – it sits alongside clinical care, never in place of it. Part of what you'll learn is exactly where that edge sits - how to hold space skillfully, and appropriately, and the very real limitations of yoga and meditation within the space of recovery.
Especially for those of us who carry our own trauma histories and who know intimately what it means to live in a dysregulated nervous system, this work asks something different of us. It asks us to try to listen, to feel. To stay where possible. To remember. And then, to hold space for others to do the same.
The Details
Not included: accommodation. Parking is available onsite.
The Rhythm of the Day
Over 6 days, we move from foundational neuroscience through to practical application and skillful teaching. Each day begins in practice, grounding you in your own nervous system before asking anything of your mind.
The Regulated Teacher is a 50-hour journey into trauma-sensitive yoga, nervous system regulation and the art of holding space.
Come deepen your understanding, strengthen your own relationship with regulation, and learn how to meet your students with greater awareness, compassion and skill.
Apply for The Regulated TeacherMaximum 7 places · Early bird closes 9 October
Your Teacher
Bryony has been teaching for almost 3 decades and has spent the last four years as lead teacher and trauma-sensitive mindfulness teacher at a residential recovery centre, working with hundreds of residents healing from addiction, grief, CPTSD, and PTSD.
She is an E-RYT 500 Teacher Trainer and Insight Yoga Institute Endorsed teacher, and has trained extensively with Sarah Powers, integrating yoga, meditation, Buddhism, and psychology into her work. She trained in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga with both Sarah Ball and Judith & Lizzie Lasater, and brings her own lived experience into how she teaches.
She is the author of Egg of the Universe and a regular contributor to Wellbeing Yoga, Being Yoga and Meditation Magazine, and Yoga Journal.
Bryony lives and teaches from the Northern Rivers, where she leads regular classes, teacher trainings, mentoring circles, and retreats.
Before You Apply
If you're drawn to the work, and you feel called to bring this into your teaching - yes. You're ready.
Yes. This is the step between being a teacher who cares about trauma and being a teacher who's actually more helpful. Knowing what's possible, and what sits beyond the scope of a yoga class, is a huge part of that.
It may well be your superpower. You may find it helps you relate more easily to the people you're teaching - you'll see yourself reflected back, and be reflected in return, and that can be a real gift.
This will equip you to teach a yoga or trauma-sensitive meditation class in spaces where a trauma sensitive training is important. It will bridge the gap, between what you wish to know and need to know to be helpful in these spaces, and help make the yoga you already teach more meaningful and appropriate.
Yes, this training gives you real tools to begin teaching trauma-sensitive yoga and the resources to keep learning for years to come. While our work as teachers is never complete, this will give you what you need to step into TSY and start.
Yes, absolutely. Your public classes will become more meaningful without losing their impact, and you'll be equipped to teach in spaces where trauma-sensitive training is essential.
Yes. You can pay in 3 fortnightly instalments, with full payment required by 5 November. The full breakdown is in Investment & Inclusions above.
Cancel 28 days or more in advance for a full refund, less a deposit of $250. Within 14–28 days, you'll receive a 50% refund, less the deposit. No refund applies within 14 days of the training. The deposit is non-refundable.
You're always welcome to transfer your spot to another person or a later date instead.
Ready to begin?
Come deepen your understanding, strengthen your own relationship with regulation, and learn how to meet your students with greater awareness, compassion and skill.
Apply for The Regulated Teacher6–8 & 20–22 November 2026 · Mullumbimby · Maximum 7 places
The Regulated Teacher · 6–8 & 20–22 November 2026
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