Creating Safer Yoga Spaces: A Trauma-Informed Approach
December 6, 2025
Shanti Bedford | 1pm - 7pm
This immersive training offers yoga teachers practical tools to create safer, more inclusive, and trauma-informed spaces. Through a blend of discussion, embodied practice, and collaborative learning, participants will explore how trauma, identity, and power dynamics show up in yoga environments, and how to skillfully respond with care, respect, and integrity. Whether you're new to trauma-informed approaches or looking to deepen your understanding, this course will equip you with language, frameworks, and embodied experience to support diverse student needs more effectively.
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Stephanie Morton has been teaching yoga since 2011. As a long distance runner and running coach, she has worked with many endurance athletes but also has a keen interest in yoga for healthy aging.
Her approach to yoga is pragmatic but grounded in traditional teachings and yogic philosophy. Her classes combine asanas and functional movement practices with pranayama and meditation techniques that support every lifestyle. She also specializes in pre and post-natal yoga.
Originally from Halifax, she recently returned to Nova Scotia with her family after having lived and worked in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for 15 years. She has a decade of yoga studio management experience and has been a lead trainer in many 200-hour yoga teacher training courses. She is passionate about supporting and mentoring yoga teachers.
This training is ideal if:
Do you want to create safer, more welcoming spaces for all students in your yoga classes?
Are you unsure how to hold space for students with different lived experiences, identities, and needs?
Do you want practical tools for making your cueing, language, and class structure more choice-based and inclusive?
Are you interested in how trauma-informed teaching intersects with anti-oppression and social justice values?
Upon completion of this course, you will gain:
Craft and deliver trauma-informed class environments that foster choice, safety, and connection
Cue asana, pranayama, and meditation practices in a way that respects autonomy and minimizes triggers
Recognize the importance of identity, and intersectionality (including 2SLGBTQQIA++, Disabled, and BIPOC identities) in holding inclusive space
Reflect on scope of practice and build trauma-informed boundaries