You will learn about:

• Competing addiction paradigms, moving from the prevailing Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) to trauma-adaptive, learning, and choice models.
• Attachment theory and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), exploring how systemic stress and early relational deficits increase vulnerability.
• The functional role of addictive behaviors as initially adaptive, albeit ultimately destructive, regulatory strategies to soothe psychophysiological distress.
• The 3-stage cycle of addiction and its neurobiological impact on the reward, anti-reward, and stress systems.
• Somatic interventions to help individuals rapidly and effectively downregulate their autonomic nervous system.
• Neurocognitive interventions to untangle the emotions that fuel cravings and restore the executive system.
• Yoga nidra as a safe holding environment in which to process grief and promote deep physiological healing.
• Post-traumatic growth and how the shattering of previous life structures creates fertile ground to build a more authentic, connected life.
• The neuroscience of spirituality, and how to use yoga to alchemize suffering and support narrative repair.
• The treatment landscape and best practices for supporting students across different levels of clinical care.
• Trauma-sensitive guidelines, de-escalation tactics, and vital self-care strategies to support your own grounded presence and resilience as a teacher or provider.

For teachers dedicated to a higher standard of learning looking to deepen their knowledge.

The Pathways to Wholeness: Integrating Yoga into Addiction Care Teacher Training is a 10-hour advanced online training for active yoga teachers, physicians, healthcare providers, fitness instructors, bodyworkers and those who are interested in learning more about this invaluable curriculum.