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 will learn about anti-oppression practices, the impacts of trauma, and New Leaf Foundation’s frameworks for offering yoga and mindfulness. Topics include considerations for fostering safer spaces, establishing healthy boundaries, strategies to effectively hold space and build engagement, and more. You’ll dig into your lived experiences, biases, and assumptions in order to be able to reach out to others in meaningful and respectful ways.
Benefiting from our 16 years of experience offering yoga and mindfulness to youth in equity-deserving communities, this training offers a rich toolkit of resilience-building resources and activities. Our approaches were originally developed for youth aged 10-24, however, 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 senior members of the New Leaf Foundation team. Our faculty includes Julia Gibran, jamilah malika abu-bakare, Laura Sygrove, Rochelle Miller, Amanda Nicholls, and Andre Talbot. With their extensive backgrounds in mindfulness, yoga, and youth advocacy, they bring years of expertise to guide participants through the training materials. Additionally, our insights have been shaped by the invaluable contributions of youth, youth workers, trauma specialists, social justice advocates, and yoga/mindfulness facilitators.
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.
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
- Certificate of completion
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 one-year access to the training, with the Training Guidebook available for download and yours to keep forever!
Sliding scale and payment plans offered. Limited full scholarships available prioritizing Black and Indigenous youth. Apply via this form.
Please note that refunds are not available.
