Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TSY-R®)
An evidence-based yoga method for addressing trauma through the body.
Learn how Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Rādika (TSY-R®) integrates yoga, compassion and polyvagal theory to support trauma recovery.
Yoga teachers, yoga practitioners, therapists and individuals interested in personal growth.
Pre-recorded online course
Available for 6 months after subscription.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
This course will help you:
- Gain an understanding of trauma: what it is, how it affects us, types of trauma
- Learn how it impacts our nervous system and brain
- Learn how to facilitate yoga sessions that are trauma sensitive following an evidence based methodology
- Incorporate a compassion informed practice into your yoga sessions
- Acquire the tools of empathy and active listening.
TRAINING INFORMATION
FORMAT
Pre-recorded online course
The course will be available for 6 months from the date of enrollment.
RECOMMENDED FOR
Yoga teachers, yoga practitioners, therapists and individuals interested in personal growth.
ENROLLMENT AND PRICING
BASIC PROGRAM
345€
Basic Features:
- 36 sessions of recorded material (25 hours).
- Additional material from other sources.
- 6 months time to finish the course.
- You will be eligible to appear on our facilitator map. The dot color will depend on the certificate obtained.
Specific Features:
- «Attendance Certificate» awarded.
- Evaluation for the “Compliance with TSY-R Methodology Standards Certificate” not included with the program.
MENTORED PROGRAM
445€
Basic Features:
- 36 sessions of recorded material (25 hours).
- Additional material from other sources.
- 6 months time to finish the course.
- You will be eligible to appear on our facilitator map. The dot color will depend on the certificate obtained.
Specific Features:
- «Attendance and Practice Certificate” awarded.
- Evaluation for the “Compliance with TSY-R Methodology Standards Certificate” included with the program.
- 1:1 online session with a mentor for Q&A.
- Facilitate an online TSY-R session with a mentor and receive personalized feedback.
- Tests for each module.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS
At Fundación Rādika, we offer scholarships and installment payment options to ensure access to our courses when circumstances allow and a positive impact can be made. Our commitment is to support those facing financial difficulties, while also ensuring the sustainability of our courses and honoring the professional work behind them.
If you believe this option could be helpful for you, we invite you to fill out the form at the following link. We kindly ask that you do so responsibly, so that this initiative can continue to benefit those who need it most.
DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO
Learn Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Rādika (TSY-R®) as an evidence-based method to treat trauma and its consequences through the body.
On demand course with María Macaya.
Learn an evidence based method to treat Trauma and its consequences by choosing the basic program or the mentored program of this training.
Our method includes:
- Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TSY-R®)
- Compassion Informed Yoga
- Polyvagal Theory Informed Yoga
What will we learn in this Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TSY-R®) course?
Having suffered a difficult experience and not having been able to process it properly can cause a degree of discomfort to remain within the body indefinitely.
Understanding trauma opens a window for us to understand other forms of distress. Anxiety, depression, difficulty concentrating, or addictions are examples of the consequences that trauma can have.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TSY-R®) is a style of yoga created by psychologists and psychiatrists to treat trauma and its consequences. Our method, TSY-R®, also includes training in compassion and polyvagal theory applied to yoga.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1
- Self-care
- Safe center meditation
Module 2
- What is trauma? Why work with the body?
- The five elements of Trauma & TSY-R®
- Safety practice
- Theory of safety
- Six symptoms of trauma
Module 3
- Options practice
- Theory of options
- Types of trauma. Part 1
- Types of trauma. Part 2
- Resilience
- Post-traumatic growth
Module 4
- Meditation of interoception
- Interoception practice
- Theory of interoception
- Present-moment experience and triggers
- The brain in trauma
- Parts of the brain in trauma and in TSY-R®
- The neurophysiology of fear
Module 5
- Breathing in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: theory and practice
- Our body and nervous system’s response to trauma
- The window of tolerance
- Activation practice
- Theory of activation
Module 6
- Practice to calm down the nervous system
- Meditation in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
- Relaxation in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
- Where to facilitate and how to create groups
- Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in therapy
- The ten elements of dignity
- Empathy
- Compassion: theory and incorporating it into TSY-R®
Introducing Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Rādika (TSY-R®)
Maria Macaya introduces the foundations of our evidence-based approach to trauma-sensitive yoga.
CERTIFICATES
There are three different certificates for this program for you to choose from:
- Attendance Certificate: It implies the completion of the course.
- Attendance and Practice Certificate: It implies the completion of the course and offering a TSY-R® session to your mentor. At the end of this practice, constructive feedback will be given, but in no case will it be evaluated.
- Compliance with TSY-R® Methodology Standards Certificate: It involves completion of the course and offering a TSY-R® session to your mentor. The mentor will evaluate a practice to verify that it follows all the TSY-R® standards. There is a possibility of not passing the test. The price of each evaluation is €70.
FACILITATOR
Maria Macaya
María Macaya is the founder and president of Rādika. She moved to Barcelona with her family in 2014 after living in the United States, Central America, and Europe for 30 years.
María founded Rādika in 2016 with the intention of giving mental and emotional health a voice and providing knowledge and tools for well-being.
Maria is specialized in trauma and Trauma Sensitive Toga. She is certified in Gabor Maté’s professional Compassionate Inquiry program, has the Brookline Massachusetts Center for Trauma and Embodiment’s 300-hour certification in the TCTSY methodology, and the San Francisco Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery’s advanced program.
Maria has brought Trauma Sensitive Yoga to Spain – an evidence-based type of yoga for people with trauma.
María offers sessions and has already trained more than 500 professionals in this methodology.
She is also certified in addiction and recovery from Stanford University, and has studied neuroscience with Kings College and with Nazareth Castellanos, polyvagal theory with Stephen Porges and Ariele Schwartz, and trauma with Bessel van der Kolk, Mario Salvador, and Carmen Cuenca.
Maria is an 800 hour advanced yoga teacher from Jivamukti and trains teachers at this school.
She has a BA in Art History and International Relations from Tufts University, an MA in Art Criticism from Columbia University, and a BA in Creative Writing from Stanford University.
“Maria Macaya is one of those unique teachers whose vast knowledge is combined with curiosity and humility. Her joy and laughter can brighten up any room, while her attention to detail always provides a sense of security that makes everyone feel welcome.”
Jules Febre, Advanced Teacher, Jivamukti Yoga
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