Teaching With Care: 1-Day Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training
with Leslie Wilkin, MSW RSW RCC
Saturday, September 12 | 11:00am–5:00pm
(30-minute break included)

This foundational training is designed for yoga teachers who want to create safer, more inclusive, and more supportive class environments for all students — without needing to know anyone’s specific trauma history or lived experience. Together, we’ll explore practical trauma-informed approaches to teaching that help foster choice, agency, accessibility, nervous system awareness, and a greater sense of safety and belonging within yoga spaces.

Led by yoga educator Leslie Wilkin (she/her), this training will offer tools and perspectives that can be integrated into a wide range of teaching styles and class settings. Topics will include language and cueing, classroom environment, power dynamics, consent and touch, regulation and grounding practices, and ways to support students with compassion and care while staying within the scope of a yoga teacher’s role. Research and current trauma-informed yoga frameworks emphasize creating environments that prioritize safety, empowerment, and self-regulation.

This training is open to all yoga teachers and trainees interested in deepening their teaching practice through a trauma-informed lens.

The cost of this workshop is on a sliding scale, to help make it affordable to everyone who wants to attend. Please choose the price that you feel best aligns with your own self-identified level of socioeconomic privilege (you can find more info about our sliding scale assistance determining what price is right for you HERE).

Supporter Rate: $210 + GST

Sustainer Rate: $180 + GST

Community Rate: $150 + GST

About the instructor:

Leslie Wilkin, MSW RSW RCC is a psychotherapist and yoga teacher who has been working with trauma survivors since 2007. She has extensive training in trauma treatment and somatic therapy, is a former facilitator with the Yoga Outreach Core Training  program, and has developed and taught Yoga programs within specialized mental health and addictions programs throughout BC. She is the founder of Wild Hawthorn Homestead & Therapy on Gabriola Island. Leslie aspires to bring authenticity, expertise, playfulness, curiosity, and love to all her teaching and training endeavours.