As New Leaf Foundation closes our doors, we remain committed to ensuring that the resources we developed continue to benefit the community. We’re pleased to offer this training to the public for free until August 15, 2025. Please note: this course will be entirely learner-directed, with no faculty or staff support.
New Leaf Foundation was founded on the belief that everyone deserves access to wellness-based resources and the understanding that not everyone is afforded that access. Our online training program, Reaching In, Reaching Out, aims to bridge this gap by sharing our best practices for fostering inclusivity and accessibility in yoga and mindfulness.
Over 9 modules, you’ll learn about anti-oppression practices, the impacts of trauma, and our key frameworks for offering yoga and mindfulness. Topics include setting healthy boundaries, engagement strategies, and creating safer spaces. You’ll explore lived experiences, biases, and assumptions to engage with others in meaningful, respectful ways.
Drawing on years of experience working with youth in equity-deserving communities, this training offers a rich toolkit of resilience-building tools and activities. Originally designed for youth aged 10-24, the content is adaptable to various yoga service and non-service settings, ensuring its relevance and applicability across diverse contexts.
You’ll learn:
- The significance of anti-oppression practices
- Fundamentals of trauma and neurophysiology
- Comprehensive framework for delivering yoga and mindfulness
- Four trauma-informed techniques aimed at fostering resilience
- Considerations for creating safer spaces
- Strategies for building youth engagement
- Strengths-based ways to work with challenges
- Our set of 6 core teachings that shape our session content
- How to build a session based on our class model
This training is led by past senior members of the New Leaf Foundation team, who bring valuable experience and historical insight to the course content. The faculty includes Julia Gibran, jamilah malika abu-bakare, Laura Sygrove, Rochelle Miller, Amanda Nicholls, and Andre Talbot.
Who would benefit?
This training is ideal for yoga teachers, yoga teachers-in-training, and seasoned mindfulness/yoga practitioners in service-oriented fields, particularly those working with youth (such as educators or youth-service providers). You’ll find this training valuable if you seek deeper insights into trauma, anti-oppression practices, and inclusive, accessible approaches to offering mindfulness and yoga practices to others.
Please note, this training is not a yoga teacher certification program. It is intended as a supplementary course to complement a foundational 200-hour yoga teacher training. Additionally, while it’s great to credit sources you learned from, this is not a certification course and we ask that you do not reference your initiative as a New Leaf Foundation program. All New Leaf programs—which have always been directly overseen & managed by our organization—have officially come to a close.
What’s Included
- 19 videos; 5 hours of video content
- New Leaf Foundation’s Training Guidebook
- Reflection questions to deepen your absorption of the material
- Sample class themes, check-ins, and activity sheets
- Quizzes and an optional assignment
How it works
Gain access to nine modules through our easy-to-use online platform. Study at your own pace, investing around 2 hours weekly. This includes video content, reflection prompts, activities, and reading. Enjoy access to the training until August 15, 2025, with the Training Guidebook and other handouts available for download and yours to keep forever!
