This Training Is Designed For Professionals Who:
- Work with clients who become overwhelmed, shut down, or escalated
- Support trauma survivors who may not want to talk about what happened
- Facilitate groups where some participants resist being there or disengage
- Work in crisis response, recovery programs, shelters, or other high stress service environments
- Are looking for trauma-informed ways to help people remain present without forcing participation
- Need practical regulation strategies that fit within their professional role
- Work with clients whose progress in talk therapy has plateaued despite insight
- Work with clients experiencing physical symptoms of anxiety, trauma, or other mental health conditions
- Support clients whose trauma has left them feeling disconnected from their bodies
When Words Are Not Enough or There Are No Words
This foundational training module prepares behavioral health, recovery, crisis response, and human services professionals to apply scope appropriate, body based regulation strategies within integrated care environments. Applied Yoga Somatics™ is a structured, trauma-informed methodology designed to support nervous system regulation, functional coping, and stabilization in settings where traditional talk-based approaches may be insufficient or may increase distress.
Practical Skills for Real Care Environments
The course emphasizes practical, immediately usable skills that can be delivered safely in one-on-one, group, and institutional contexts. Participants learn how to introduce movement, breath, and somatic awareness in ways that prioritize choice, tolerability, and ethical role clarity, with clear guidance on contraindications, red flags, and referral decision making. Through the BreathSync™ Method, participants learn how to incorporate breathwork and movement in a structured and progressive way to facilitate accessibility and nervous system regulation.
Designed for Multidisciplinary Helping Professionals
Training is appropriate for both licensed and non-licensed professionals working across behavioral health, recovery services, crisis intervention, social services, and community-based care. Throughout the module, strong attention is given to scope of practice, confidentiality, professionalism, and trauma-informed delivery to ensure safe integration within multidisciplinary systems.
Understanding the Nervous System in Real Care Settings
Participants build functional somatic literacy through a step by step progression that includes nervous system education, trauma-informed teaching methodology, accessible movement practices, and structured application pathways. The module also supports the development of a personal somatic practice, reinforcing embodiment, self regulation, and ethical modeling as part of professional care.
Course Format:
Self-paced online learning with approximately six hours of video instruction, demonstrations, and guided practices.
CE Credit:
18 CT-NASW CECs
This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal. Approval also meets the continuing education criteria for CT LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, and licensed psychologists.
Tuition:
$215. Course is accessible for one year from purchase date.
Instructor:
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT, with contributions from Sara Merrick-Albano, C-IAYT
About Your Instructors
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT
Director, ClinicAlly Trained™ | Co-Founder, Yoga Therapy Associates Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT, is an author, educator, and yoga therapist dedicated to bridging yoga therapy and mental health care. As Director of ClinicAlly Trained™, she develops specialized continuing education and yoga teacher training programs for clinicians who want to integrate evidence-based somatic and breath-based interventions into therapy practice. Christine’s clinical background centers on supporting individuals living with anxiety, trauma, depression, and cancer. As a breast cancer survivor, she brings lived experience and clinical expertise together with genuine compassion, recognizing both the depth of suffering people carry and the practical tools that support real healing. As co-founder of Yoga Therapy Associates and ClinicAlly Trained™, Christine envisions a professional platform where yoga therapy and behavioral health meet. Her work emphasizes elevating best practices, strengthening ethical standards, and ensuring that yoga therapy is represented with the same rigor and accountability expected in clinical disciplines. Through a partnership between Yoga Therapy Associates and the Held Center for Healing, Christine helped develop the EMbody Trauma Recovery Program, an IOP alternative for individuals recovering from addiction and trauma that combines EMDR and yoga therapy. She has also presented multiple times at Smilow Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital on yoga therapy for emotional and physical recovery. In addition, she provides continuing education for DMHAS, the Connecticut Women’s Consortium, and EMDRIA’s national webinar catalog, teaching clinicians how to integrate yoga therapy and breathwork into trauma treatment. Christine’s writing and teaching reflect a deep commitment to professionalizing yoga therapy, making it accessible, research-informed, and relevant to the realities of modern clinical practice. Learn more about Christine’s work at www.yogatherapyassociates.com/about/christine-yoga-therapist and explore her specialized programs for therapists at www.clinicallytrained.com.