Course Description:

This 10-hour continuing education course is designed for yoga teachers and wellness practitioners who want to deepen their class design by integrating trauma-informed care, somatics, and abolitionist principles into their sequencing. Using The Clearing’s signature methodology—Breath, Movement, Meditation—teachers will learn how to build classes that center liberation, body wisdom, and nervous system safety.

Participants will explore how to deconstruct dominant yoga norms rooted in whiteness and performance, and instead create accessible, spirit-rooted, and abolition-minded practices. Through lecture, experiential practice, reflection, and peer teaching, this training empowers teachers to lead from a place of integrity, care, and radical presence.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the core elements of The Clearing’s sequencing model and its trauma-informed, abolitionist foundation

• Design sequences that prioritize breath awareness, functional movement, and intuitive alignment

• Apply the 5-part movement formula (R.O.M., Move & Breathe, Strengthen, Stretch, Nidra) to any class format

• Integrate koshas, seasonal rhythms, and somatic themes into class planning

• Use consent-based, invitational language and modify cueing for accessibility

• Teach a complete trauma-informed class including guided Yoga Nidra and/or Dhyana

• Identify and deconstruct language, sequencing patterns, and expectations rooted in white body supremacy