About the Course
Integrative Somatics & Trauma Informed Practices is back by popular demand. Join Kirsten Wilkinson of Legacy Motion from 24-26 April 2026 at Ananda Sanctuary for this profoundly healing and valuable course.
Daily Schedule:
Friday 24 April March 5.30pm - 8pm
Saturday 25 April 10am - 5pm
Sunday 26 April 11am - 5pm
This course can be used as 20 Continuing Education Hours provided by Yoga Alliance - YACEP.
This training is more than an education, it is a practical learning experience to transform your offering and the spaces you occupy.
This training offers you immediate tools, methods and interventions in order to instantaneously cultivate a more trauma-informed approach in your current studio, classes, business, organization, and offerings.
It is an integrative and holistic approach to discovering the connections between empowerment and resilience through personal exploration, invitational language, safe space creation, supportive solutions, and facilitating choice-making.
This 20Hr Training is designed for:
Experienced, new and novice yoga teachers and yoga business owners hoping to integrate trauma informed and accessible yoga in studio, online and community settings.
Health, social, service, and community professionals hoping to integrate yoga, embodied, and mindful somatic practices with a trauma informed approach into their existing practice, organizations, and work.
Activists, humanitarians and social justice advocates hoping to add somatic awareness, embodied practices and community connection to their social justice and systemic change agendas.
During this training participants will discover:Â
How trauma anatomically affects the nervous systemÂ
How to identify trauma symptoms and trigger responsesÂ
Tools to promote biological resiliency, self-regulation and resolution
Protocol and best practices in the fieldÂ
Invitational languageÂ
Community building and outreach methodsÂ
Ahimsa and the importance of self-careÂ
How to create a safe spaceÂ
Teaching methods for classrooms, yoga studios, healthcare practitioners, etc
Curriculum Breakdown:
Friday
Welcome to your training
Our Trauma Informed Perspective
Resourcing
The Importance of Self Care & Self Compassion in this work
Saturday
Defining & Understanding Trauma
Trauma Anatomy & Physiology
Foundational Polyvagal Theory
Regulation & Nervous System Balance
Disassociation, Disembodiment & Re-Embodiment
Reactions, Responses & Triggers
Sunday
Creating your Trauma Informed Space
Trauma Informed Communication
Methods, Tools & Interventions
How to Apply this Information to your Work
Communities & Trauma Informed Life
Scope of Practice
Personal Mentorship & Q&A
Closing
Equity in Investment – Choosing your tier
We are committed to offering trainings, mentorships and opportunities that are of the highest quality, affordable and accessible while striving to keep equity and mutual exchange at the soul of how we serve.  Â
We recognize that we live in systems of inequity and we strive to find ways of finding balance within this. We feel that the deepest engagement and greatest benefit comes when there is a meaningful mutual exchange. Â
For these reasons, we offer tiered pricing. There is an invitation to reflect on your access to resources and privilege, the value of this work, what you can genuinely afford, and what you might pay for comparable training programs. By committing to what is truly within your means you make it possible for others to show up within theirs and we are all grateful for this.
TIER 1: R3200.00 early bird until 15 MarchÂ
/ thereafter R3,900 – For those who are financially well-resourced and who are able to contribute to our scholarship fund. Reflects the value of the course in Western economic markets.
TIER 2: R2600.00 early bird until 15 MarchÂ
/ thereafter R3,100 – For those on medium incomes and access to financial resources who also are able to contribute to our scholarship fund.
TIER 3: R1900.00 early bird until 15 MarchÂ
/ thereafter R2,300 – For those on lower incomes with caring responsibilities.
Your Instructor
Kirsten Wilkinson
Kirsten has over 30 years of experience working with moving bodies, trauma, and building trauma informed curriculum. Her movement based practices began as a Professional Ballerina and her personal healing journey shifted from a near-fatal car accident led her to Somatic Therapy. She opened her Private Practice, Healing Motion, in 2020 after much request for a more holistic approach to mental healthcare and personalized support from former participants in her other trainings, retreats, workshops and classes.
She is Founder and Executive Director of Legacy Motion a 501(c)3 NGO organization that supports individuals and communities impacted by trauma by offering sustainable programing to community members in trauma informed, restorative, movement based practices and somatic therapy modalities . Each program and project honors traditional healing methods, supports the collective human experience, and provides learning opportunities to aid in accessible and equitable mental healthcare through the mind/body connection.
She offers Somatic Therapy to individuals and groups struggling with stress, anxiety, sleep and disgestion challenges, displaced populations (refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants), survivors of torture and terror, veterans and active duty military and their families, first responders and their families, humanitarian aid professionals and volunteers, survivors of violence, abuse and oppression, individuals who have a history with substance use and body dysphoria, and anyone who is seeking to support their own mental health by discovering their innate wisdom, restoring their embodied strength, and transcending to holistic wellbeing through nervous system self-regulation, lifestyle balance, and personalized wellness programs.