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Yoga Teacher and Educator
Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F)
Student We try to think and talk our way out of things.
Meet Yourself Where You Are: Yoga & Somatic Movement for Trauma and Reconnecting to Your Body. Life is full of overwhelming experiences that leave a lasting impact on both the mind and the body. As a way to cope, we often disconnect from our bodies and try to process trauma through the mind. But we’re missing a crucial piece of the puzzle — the body. Body-based practices like yoga and somatic move
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04/11/2022
Trauma-Informed Yoga & Movement Course | CPD | London Unravel the principles of trauma-sensitivity and recognise the role yoga and movement can play in supporting trauma sufferers. Ideal for yoga teachers, movement facilitators and registered therapists.
03/11/2022
Trauma Informed Yoga & Movement
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A 5-Day course designed for movement facilitators, bodyworkers, therapists and those in similar supporting roles.
What to expect:
• Practice embodied trauma informed somatic movement and yoga.
•Time to explore, question and discuss the latest trauma theory
•Practice planning and teaching trauma informed movement.
•Delve into the anatomy of trauma via an experiential/embodied approach
•Discuss the politics of trauma
•Learn some of the basics of the neurobiology of trauma
•Begin to understand the deeply individualised experiences of trauma.
•Gain tools for creating a more trauma friendly general movement class and/or bringing trauma informed movement/body awareness into your therapy spaces.
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Accessible & inclusive learning space.
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CPD accreditation with Yoga Alliance
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Ashley has been working in the field for over 10 years in clinical settings, secure facilities as well as within general movement settings. She is a trauma specialist, a 500 hour Yoga Alliance Educator, as well as a somatic educator and therapist.
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*not suitable for those seeking trauma support themselves or those who have recently experienced trauma.
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More details and booking at: www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk
31/10/2022
Trauma Informed Yoga & Movement training coming up in London. Open to yoga and movement facilitators, bodyworkers, therapists and those in similar supporting roles. More info on the Barefoot Body website.
To be trauma-inclusive as a yoga teacher facilitator at heart is to have a profound respect for every human who steps into your space.
There are skills we can learn and practice that enhances this fundamental respect, and if you would like to join next month for a 5 day CPD intensive in London, you’re in luck as there are a couple of spaces available.
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/trauma-informed-yoga
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10/09/2022
Our team ❤️ came together last night to hear all about Ashley Macdonald's incredibly interesting work in Somatic Therapies. Thank you so much
It was the first time we have been able to come together and I feel so privileged to be working with so many wonderful, skilled women.
08/09/2022
Barefoot Body here to help!
HERE TO HELP
🙏 Barefoot Body is set up to offer bursary support on all our courses. This and interest free payment plans help more people access our unique and accredited yoga and somatic trainings.
🙏 We also pay the best rates possible to all our tutors who have invested for years in their own yoga specialisms and are dedicated to their practices.
🙏 We strive to deliver on inclusion and are continually educating ourselves to make this manifest more often. Forgive us if we don’t get it right all of the time.
🙏 We are fundraising for on our 2022 online Chair and Access Workshops (we are currently around the £500 mark - thank you to all who have participated.) We believe that no human is illegal.
🙏 How can we help you on your yoga journey
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31/08/2022
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26/08/2022
🐦 MEET & GREET - We’re delighted to be hosting a free session Central studio on 4th September if you are thinking about a teacher
training.
🐦 Head to the website to book a place or DM us here.
🐦 The course runs for 12 months from January 2023. In-person with a few online days.
🐦 EARLY BIRD pricing ends 30 September 2022
15/08/2022
So looking forward to this amazing training in Cambridge! Barefoot Body CAMYOGA
30/07/2022
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04/07/2022
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27/06/2022
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12/06/2022
Join us for the chair yoga online course (recording available) on June 26th - pay a donation rate!! Amazing opportunity.
🐦Join and me for a somatic exploration into using a chair for practice and teaching.
🐦You can join us live on SUNDAY 26 JUNE or we can send you a recording of the explorations if you’re busy elsewhere!
🐦By DONATION to
🐦 DM if you would like to join and I’ll send you a link to make your donation direct with so you know that 100% of your donation goes directly to where it is needed.
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26/05/2022
Chair Yoga Teacher Training - at a donation rate! Barefoot Body
💙 💛 Offer your donation for a place on any of our our 2022 online CPDs in Chair practice and Access & Variety (Props).
🐦 Next Date for Chair Part 1 is 26 JUNE (in person online or try a recording!)
🐦 Send me a message if you would like to join and I’ll send you a link to make your donation direct with so you know that 100% of your donation goes directly to where it is needed.
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/chair-yoga
08/03/2022
Somatic immersion - the organ system - it’s going to be good! Barefoot Body
SAVE THE DATES - June 17th -19th in the beautiful for an in-person, somatic immersion into three of our organ systems for inner support, buoyancy and ease for our posture and movement.
Delicious!
See the link below for more details!
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/experiential-anatomy
18/02/2022
Why Barefoot Body? Variety & choice, knowledge & support; creating your own 300 programme.
12/02/2022
QUICK SHOUT OUT:: There’s still time to join the inspiring who is our lead tutor on the deeply useful:
Trauma Informed Yoga & Movement (Level 1 course).
We expect this CPD course to run only once this year, so don’t miss out 🙂
➡️ See link below:
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/trauma-informed-level-1
10/02/2022
New UK Intro Workshops - Book Now
New Diploma Students share their experiences of IBMT study.
Applications open to join the diploma programme.
New IBMT Book out soon – The Fluid Nature of Being.
For full details, see our latest newsletter: https://ibmt.co.uk/newsletter/
08/02/2022
Clarify your intentions, strip back to basics, and then sharpening your trauma-awareness begin to find confidence in your own authentic voice and creative style.
You’ll also dip in to history, philosophy and the science of the practices.
Come and Beverley, Tiffany and Ashley in March - in-person 🙂
✅ Follow the link below:
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/yoga-nidra
30/01/2022
Therapy Without Talking Is A Real Thing — What You Need To Know About Somatic Therapy Is this a viable option for you?
17/01/2022
Finding Creativity Through Movement - Neuroscience News Researchers say the freedom to make self-determined movements may be key to flexible thinking and creativity.
12/01/2022
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18/12/2021
Why do I value the material I have gathered in my explorations into embryology?
Well, to begin with I have found information that helps orient me both in space and in my body, and a quality of being that is not quite like any other body system experience.
I also find a new narrative for my sense of body, mind and emotions that arises from an initial sense of cellular vibration and sound, through fluid streaming, foldings and spiralling's.
It’s a somatic and philosophical investigation that I’d love to share with you.
See the link below!
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/embryology
27/10/2021
Come learn ways of centring a chair as part of our practice. Teaching for access and variety. Part one November 28th online.
WHEN IS A CHAIR NOT A CHAIR?
When we take a somatic approach to centering the chair as part of our practice.
In part one of our course (ONLINE 28 Nov) we will focus on the possibilities of moving around the chair independently and in part two (ONLINE 9 Jan), of moving independently within the chair.
Check Link in the bio for our Online Offerings
07/10/2021
Embodying the organ system was a game-changer for me. A fantastic course for those looking to enhance their anatomy knowledge, gain experience in facilitating embodiment practices - or who just want to find new ways to move with support.
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Posted • Find inner support for your spine, your limbs and your psoas.
Experiential anatomy & physiology of three systems to deepen your practice & teaching.
A stand-alone accredited CPD and also forms part of our 300-Hour programme.
Follow the COURSES link is in the bio 💗
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Find inner support for your spine, your limbs and your psoas.
Experiential anatomy & physiology of three systems to deepen your practice & teaching.
A stand-alone accredited CPD and also forms part of
our 300-Hour programme.
Here’s the link for more information:
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/experiential-anatomy
Image via Canva, Artist unknown
08/09/2021
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
07/09/2021
A trauma informed training rooted in the somatic experiences of trauma that explores how, with knowledge and better informed understanding of the varied ways trauma ‘shows up,’ we can best support our students, clients, patients, colleagues and communities.
A few places still available in our small online learning space.💗
Here’s the link for more information:
https://www.barefootbodytraining.co.uk/trauma-informed-level-1
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16/08/2021
Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing There’s growing evidence that signals sent from our internal organs to the brain play a major role in regulating emotions and fending off anxiety and depression
29/07/2021
Photos from Yoga and Somatics with Aki Omori's post
21/07/2021
Wonderful share from Barefoot Body
As a facilitator of movement practices, I recognise that I share from my experience and I invite us to practice together in a way that makes room for your experience (and your’s, and your’s, and your’s).
I cannot teach you your experience but I can offer you keys to your way in.
11/06/2021
Really recommend this if you can make it to Totnes!
Moving with Body Earth & Sky Details about the Introductory Outdoor Workshop in Devon on 17th & 18th July 2021. https://ibmt.co.uk/infant-movement-development-intro-outside/
10/06/2021
07/06/2021
Thinking about becoming a teacher? The Barefoot Body teacher training early bird offer is still on. A learning environment that supports you in becoming the teacher/facilitator that you want to be - individual care, small group learning and trauma informed.
EARLY BIRD : Just like the hummingbird, we’re going the extra mile and extending our best price for a place on our much sought after 200H teacher training. Follow link in the bio or DM Beverley to arrange a chat .
04/05/2021
A Psychedelic Drug Passes Big Test for PTSD Treatment A new study shows that M**A, known as Ecstasy or Molly, can bring relief when paired with talk therapy to those with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
04/05/2021
We hold so much in our bodies. The conscious and the unconscious, joy and despair, beauty and the shadows, ease and struggle. All that our bodies hold is part of us.
So many of us are searching for more ease, less holding, more opening, less constriction. A magical part of embodiment is that transformation can occur in any moment–it is only a cellular membrane away.
Join Bonnie in exploring Opening and Strengthening Our Heart through the Consciousness of Embodiment. This 8-class, live, online series starts on Thursday and will take you on a journey into the awareness of your own body, awakening your cells which allows fresh insights and the possibility for transformation.
Bonnie will share insights and principles drawn from her 50 years of pioneering work in an embodied approach to anatomy, developmental movement, embryological development, and psychophysical integration. In each class, cellular consciousness guides our explorations.
No previous experience with Body-Mind Centering® is necessary. Join Bonnie with a sense of curiosity and inquiry about movement, the body, and consciousness.
Pay From The Heart Scholarships are available to everyone who needs financial assistance. All are welcome to this Spring Series.
More information: https://bonniebainbridgecohen.com/products/2021-spring-series
14/04/2021
"I asked Jon Simons, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, could it really be something “sciencey”? “Yes, it’s definitely something sciencey – and it’s helpful to understand that this feeling isn’t unusual or weird,” he says. “There isn’t something wrong with us. It’s a completely normal reaction to this quite traumatic experience we’ve collectively had over the last 12 months or so.”
Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why
12/04/2021
It's all about improving our comfort Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
08/04/2021
This is going to be great! A little bit of movement for trauma, a little bit of theory, a lot of time to explore and be curious about how trauma awareness shows up for us individually, in our work and as a community. Begins Sunday April 18th 5pm. Details at Moving Body Arts
06/04/2021
Habit = part of being human. Trying things differently also = being human.
After exploring the air element in practice last week, along with the ‘spirallic currents’ of the cardiovascular system with Yoga and Somatics with Aki Omori on Friday, this video feels very timely.
22/03/2021
Unified system (thanks for posting softely
Fascia and Tensegrity The Quintessence of a Unified Systems Conception The heterogeneous connective tissue fascia is constructed upon a tensegrity-based architecture providing cells and organism’s with stability coupled with mobility.
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