Stress and Trauma Aware Yoga
with Aimee Huffman

4-Week In-Person Series on Tuesdays: 5:30pm - 7:30pm PST
June 3rd - June 24th, 2025

Feeling overwhelmed by the stress of everyday life? You're not alone.

Chronic stress and unresolved trauma can take a serious toll—on your body, your mental health, and your ability to feel calm, focused, and in control of your life. But the good news is: healing is possible. With the right tools, you can support your nervous system, build resilience, and reconnect with a sense of balance and well-being.

This online training is for anyone wanting to reset their nervous system and restore balance through movement, breath, and mindfulness. These practices can create a renewed sense of self-trust and self-compassion.

This training is also for those who want to work mindfully with others in a nervous system and trauma-informed way like therapists, coaches, teachers and medical professionals.

Join a small, supportive community and gain practical techniques to cultivate lasting well-being in an increasingly stressful world.

Yoga teachers can earn Yoga Alliance continuing education credits for this training.

Apply here for a Scholarship Rate and pay what feels right for you!

In this 8-hour training, you will learn about: 

  • What trauma really is and how it affects your body, mind, and spirit—both in the moment and long-term

  • How the brain responds to stress, including the roles of the survival brain, emotional brain, and thinking brain

  • Polyvagal Theory made simple—understand your nervous system and how to work with it instead of against it

  • The power of regulation—how to calm yourself (self-regulation), support others (co-regulation), and allow the body to reset naturally (auto-regulation)

  • Breathing practices to activate the calming part of your nervous system (the parasympathetic response)

  • Gentle movement tools to support your nervous system, improve vagal tone, and build a feedback loop of safety and well-being

  • Orienting techniques to ground you in the present moment and help you feel safe in your body and surroundings

  • Mindfulness strategies backed by research to help you feel your emotions, increase awareness, and make empowered choices

  • Self-inquiry practices to recognize when you're being triggered—and how to respond with care instead of reactivity

After this workshop you will be able to:

  • Identify the 5 main nervous system states using an easy-to-understand framework based on Polyvagal Theory

  • Understand what you—and those you support—need in each state to feel grounded, safe, and cared for

  • Help someone move from stress or overwhelm back to a sense of calm and connection

  • Reduce the long-term impact of trauma by recognizing early signs of nervous system strain and knowing how to respond

  • Share simple, effective tools that people can use in everyday life to manage stress and feel more in control

  • Guide others toward a deeper sense of well-being and self-leadership, so they can live with more choice, clarity, and confidence

FAQs

  • This workshop is for anyone wanting to reset their nervous system and restore balance through movement, breath, and mindfulness.

    For people with complex trauma and PTSD, this workshop is best done in conjunction with a licensed mental health specialist. Our scope of practice for this workshop is on understanding our stress responses and cultivating resilience, not specifically trauma on resolution.

  • No problem. Recordings via Zoom will be provided within 72 hours after each workshop and available for 90 days after the workshop series is complete.

  • You can expect supportive seated postures, accessible standing poses and restorative supine shapes - all with the use of blocks, bolsters and straps to support the physical body.

  • Yes! This is an all levels workshop. Practices will be centered around adaptive yoga postures and techniques appropriate for all bodies and physical abilities.

  • A journal is encouraged but not required. Writing utensils and a detailed handout of the practices will be provided.

  • Click here to apply for a scholarship rate!

    My goal is for these trainings and tools to be accessible to all regardless of your financial situation.

  • The ability to:

    • Recognize the 5 primary nervous system states through the lens of Polyvagal theory

    • Recognize and know what you AND your client/student/patient need to feel supported in each state

    • Be better equipped to help someone in an active stress & dysregulated response come back to safety and connection

    • Mitigate long-term effects of nervous system impairment as a result of a traumatic event

    • Give people effective, relevant tools they can carry with them into their day-to-day

    • Support people toward a sense of wholeness and ability to direct life intentionally for themselves

  • Online via Zoom. Recordings will be provided within 72 hours after each workshop and available for 90 days after the workshop series is complete.

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Aimee Huffman is a certified yoga therapist (IAYT), experienced yoga teacher (ERYT 500), yoga educator (YACEP) and certified health coach. As a former collegiate athlete with over ten years of yoga, meditation and physical fitness training, her guidance embodies a whole system approach. She believes the pathway to greater health and wellbeing begins with the body, breath and mindfulness, and she’s passionate about helping others develop mental strength, heal holistically from pain and live a life filled with joy. Her guidance is influenced and based on body-oriented therapy, nervous system regulation through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, and positive psychology. Originally from Austin, Texas she followed her wanderlust to the PNW in 2023.

Learn more here.

More questions? Contact Aimee!

Aimee Huffman - aimee@aimeehuffman.com