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We are a certified social enterprise. Hi - I'm Renée, the founder of Trauma-Informed Leadership, and a practicing trauma-informed yoga facilitator.

Hi, I’m Renée 👋

You can find Trauma-Informed Yoga Australia over on Instagram

We deliver trauma-informed yoga (private & public classes) and trauma-informed practice education. I lead 1:1 / private yoga classes online and in person in Ocean Grove, Victoria. My qualifications:
I am Western Victoria's only TCTSY-F Yoga Facilitator - this is the original Trauma-Sensitive Yoga studied by Bessel van der Kolk for PTSD, CPTSD and Chronic stress, as discussed in his book 'The Body Keeps the Score. I lead in person workshops in various locations & online, and also teach informed yoga facilitation at both Zero Point Yoga Teacher Training School in Ocean Grove & the Australian Yoga Academy in Melbourne. You don't need to be able to 'do' any yoga at all to be able to benefit from trauma-informed practice. I am a big believer in accessibility and think the best practice is the one that works for you. All bodies/abilities are welcome - please head to my website for more information or to book in a 1:1 yoga class with me.

21/09/2026

I keep looking at the way mental health services ‘work’ and thinking: this is just embarrassing.

In Australia we have completely inadequate emergency mental health services and shoddy AF mental health supports more broadly.

We have evidence-based therapies producing real outcomes that are overlooked because they don’t fit government funding categories. The NDIS calling Yoga therapy “not evidence-based” is one example.

We’ve had veterans’ allied health care turned into a political football over a proposed $5,000 cap. (It’s great that the cap was reversed. The fact that it took so much lobbying and was even on the table is insane though.)

We’re a rich country providing substandard mental health services. Govenment policy, legislaation and regulations say care should be evidence-based and person-centred, then decisions are constantly made that ignore evidence and make care harder to access.

The work that’s been done to ensure that lived experience has a say goes part of the way - but seeing these policies and pillars consistently implemented so poorly, often causing more harm, breaks my heart time and time again.

What does it take to move towards more person-centred, proactive healthcare that not just treats people with dignity and in a trauma-informed way when they’re in crisis? How do we one that focuses on proactive wellbeing, connection, community and evidence-informed supports?

It sure as f*** wont be in using mental healthcare as a political football. It won’t be found in clickbaity headlines and treating every service as an island. Great healthcare needs great professionals - who are supported to deliver exceptional care AND to look after themselves in the process. That’s trauma-informed care.

02/09/2026

Back at Eastside Yoga on 19 Sept! I was floored by the awesome community vibe when I delivered a workshop there recently, so I’m super excited to be heading back.

This time around, we’re unpacking choice and decision making and the nervous system.

We’ll be exploring:

* How our capacity to make choices shifts across different emotional states 
* What stress or trauma does to our ability to choose clearly 
* What helps when trying to navigate decisions while feeling escalated, overwhelmed, or depressed 
* How to make choices that feel more aligned, and whether we can ‘work out’ that muscle over time 
3-hour nervous system and choice and decision making workshop
When: 19 Sept, 12-3pm
Where: Eastside Yoga, Ballarat
Who: Open to everyone, whether you are brand new to yoga or have an established practice. No requirement to move beyond sitting for a brief grounding and a couple of optional movement practices throughout.

Love to see you there. Booking link in bio.

19/08/2026

Want to practice some brain-bicep-curls? (AKA body movement that has wonderful brain benefits for people who’ve experienced trauma, are experiencing chronic stress or that would like to focus on their body/brain connection and nervous system health).

Come practice Yoga with me!

Every Sunday at 8am AEST (virtual) with Frontline Yoga Inc

Every Monday at 12 midday in Ocean Grove at Zero Point Yoga . Ocean Grove .

The link to book both is in my bio - feel free to dm any questions about accessibility or if it’s right for you. (I usually reply within 2 days max)

09/08/2026

Want to learn more about how we make decisions (and how we can set ourselves up to make ones more aligned with what feels good and safe to us?)

This Saturday, we’re exploring what happens to our capacity for choice when we’re grounded, when we’re stressed, and when our nervous system is responding to what’s happening around us.

We’ll explore choice-making somatically, paying attention to how decision-making actually feels in the body.

Suitable for yoga facilitators, yoga practitioners, and anyone curious to learn more about choice decision-making and the body - at the beautiful Zero Point Yoga . Ocean Grove . in

14/07/2026

Whether I am presenting within a yoga teacher training, professional development for psychologists, working with sports and fitness professionals or leadership teams discussing psychosocial safety these are the constants that I always come back to.

Trauma-informed practice isn’t just about getting a framework right or (God forbid!) reducing it to taking a deep breath before meetings. It’s psychosocial safety in action.

Coincidentally, what I think many trauma-informed (yoga, social work, education, justice) frameworks leave out is a focus on how safety shows up in the body, our nervous systems and brain/body connection, and how power structures, hierarchies and systems can help or hinder genuine implementation.

03/07/2026

Hope is the constant.

Hope is so easy to give up on when trauma, significant life experiences, mental health challenges and the demands of everyday life feel overwhelming.

Learning how trauma and chronic stress affect our bodies, brains and relationships helps us see that there is hope beyond what we are feeling today.

Understanding that healing is possible is a big part of why I do this work. And that means drawing on educators and live experience from a number of different disciplines - one of my favourites being Dr Peter Levine, whose work on healing after trauma is exceptional.

We can’t erase what has happened to us, but we can learn to better support our nervous systems, reconnect with ourselves and move towards healing/integration.

28/06/2026

Things that have been filling my cup this past week:

- having a “study week” where I immersed myself back into some of my favourite authors and subject matter experts I admire for my program rewrite

- Having the capacity to be kind to myself when stuff does get triggered / even when it’s something I feel like I’ve read a 1000x before. Much less things do trigger me nowadays but it’s an inevitable part of doing this work. Some days I have capacity for it and others I don’t.

- I’ve been enjoying the lead up to the school holidays and am stoked they’re here! This is my favoured part of this work is that I get to schedule around and decrease my work over the school holidays so I get to hang out with the kid.

31/05/2026

It’s Winter (!.) and the start of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

To every one of my LGBTQI+ friends and family: I see you, I love you, and you make the world a better place.

Loving you means wanting you safe, in every workplace and community space you walk into. That is what my work is for. Person-centred, trauma-informed practice is how I believe we can get there.

Because understanding that safety feels different in every body, and that how others treat us, like homophobia has a real impact. Building safety builds interoception, our connection to our physical and emotional state. As both grow, spaces become more psychologically safe. More people feel included. More collaboration and creativity happens. People bring more of themselves, because less of them is bracing for harm.

When we grow up in a world, family or community that doesn’t accept us for who we are it can be so easy for shame and self-hatred to take hold. Even years down the track when it seems like we have everything together it can still be there, lurking.

09/05/2026

An easy way to make any yoga class more trauma aware? Consider how you announce where you are in the room - to give space and consideration to nervous systems that might be heightened.
Some people may experience more of a startle / fright response than others. This of course is just one of the many ways we can “pull” our participants out of their window of tolerance in their yoga practice.
An easy change of practice? Depending on how you teach (as there are many ways we do!) think about how and when your students expect you to move. How do they know where you are if they’re absorbed in their practice? Are there chances to create more certainty about where you are?

04/05/2026

Should every yoga class and yoga teacher be trauma-informed.

Nope.

But it would be f-ing fantastic if more of us were trauma-aware.

Reason #367 why is about more than just leading trauma-informed yoga classes!!

If you’re keen on learning more check out the link in my bio for details of my upcoming teacher trainings and scholarships for all of my programs 💛

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42 Clifton Street
Prahran, VIC
3181

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https://www.traumainformedyogaaustralia.com.au/hello

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