THERAPEUTIC YOGA
& Minfdul Embodiment
FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Teacher Training Course
Yoga Alliance Accredited
Teach therapeutic yoga classes and somatic embodiment sessions to support people with emotional and mental well-being.
Do you dream of supporting people through their most difficult moments in life?
Turn Passion
Into Vocation
Stress, depression, anxiety, grief, burnout, high-sensitivity, and trauma …
Most of us have had a taste of what it means to struggle mentally and emotionally at some point in our lives.
And maybe this is your time to turn that experience into a gift to help others.
If you are a passionate yoga teacher, therapist, bodyworker or mental health practitioner and have a deep interest in emotions, somatics, nervous system health, and matters of the heart and soul … then join us!
Learn how to create safe and heart-centered spaces to facilitate awareness, nervous system regulation, release, and support resilience.
Level 1
Curriculum
- Nervous system health, polyvagal theory, self-regulation and co-regulation
- Therapeutic yoga exercises and somatic practices for mental health
- Designing, sequencing, and cueing classes for specific mental health challenges
- Yoga psychology & therapeutic skills
- Adapted breathing exercises & breathwork for mental health
- Voicework
- Neuroplasticity, mindfulness, meditation, and relaxation practices
- Contra-indications, variations and adaptations
- Offering adjustments and presence
- Practices for your own personal development and extra-curricular activities like a cacao ceremony
After Graduating
✅ You can confidently teach yoga classes and mindful somatic embodiment sessions to support people experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, and high-sensitivity.
✅ You will have all the tools to teach group classes, workshops, and retreats focused on emotional wellbeing and mental health.
✅ You will be ready to share your gifts with the world.
At the end of this course, you will be able to confidently sequence and teach classes to deeply support students experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, burnout, and high sensitivity.
Level 2: Specialization in 1-on-1 Sessions
Curriculum
- Conducting a holistic health assessment
- Creating individualized programs for clients
- Therapeutic yoga exercises and somatic practices for mental health
- Therapeutic skills
- Offering presence and touch
- Assisted stretching & Thai Massage
- Psychosomatic Bodymap
- Working with breath and sound to facilitate regulation and release
- Framework for offering 1-on-1 sessions
- Practices for your own personal development and extra-curricular activities like a cacao ceremony
After Graduating
✅ You are able to offer impactful 1-on-1 sessions as a therapeutic yoga consultant or mindful somatic embodiment practitioner.
✅ You are able to do a holistic health assessment to assess your client’s needs.
✅ You are able to create tailor-made sessions to support your clients with their emotional and mental health.
✅ You’ll feel confident using inquiry techniques, adjustments and touch in your sessions.
Upcoming Dates
LEVEL 1: September – October 2025 in Brussels, Belgium
3 Weekends
13-14 September, 27-28 September, 11-12 October
Saturdays & Sundays 9:30 - 17:00
Brussels, Belgium
Accreditation
✓ After graduating from Level 1, you receive a 50h Therapeutic Yoga for Mental Health Teacher Certificate
✓ After graduating from Level 2, you receive a Therapeutic Yoga for Mental Health & Mindful Somatic Embodiment Practitioner Certificate.
✓ This training is fully accredited by the Yoga Alliance. Upon completion, you can register the course hours for continuing education credits.
Investment
Complete Level 1 Training Includes:
✓ Massive deepening in your professional & personal skills
✓ 6 Days In-Person Training
✓ Course Book
✓ 1 Year Access To Additional Online Training Materials
✓ Certificate of Completion with
✓ 40 CPUs with Yoga Alliance
✓ Further guidance and questions in Family Message Group
Admission Requirements Level 1
- Yoga Teachers: A 200h Yoga Teacher Certificate
- Coaches, Bodyworkers and Wellness Professionals: Minimum of 2 years of consistent yoga practice
- Psychologists and registered mental health professionals: Minimum of 1 year of consistent yoga practice
Admission Requirements Level 2
- Yoga Teachers: After completing Level 1
- Coaches, Bodyworkers and Wellness Professionals: After completing Level 1
- Psychologists and registered mental health professionals: after completing level 1 OR completing both the online 10h Yoga for Depression and 10h Yoga for Anxiety courses as a pre-requisite.
Graduation
- We do everything we can to bring out your talents and support you in becoming a skilled, compassionate, and confident therapeutic yoga teacher and mindful somatic embodiment practitioner. You can not fail this course. In case we feel that upon completion of the course you are not ready to start conducting classes or sessions safely, we might ask you to complete additional homework or supervised sessions to further build your skills.
Testimonial
from Yoga Teacher Melanie
This is what Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Teacher and former Psychiatrist Sari has to say about the training.
Rebecca is a herbalist and recent 200h yoga TTC graduate. Here is why she signed up, what she got from the course, and how she intends to move forward professionally.
Lead Teacher
Deniz Aydoslu
MSc, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Founder of this course and of Somatic Yoga for Mental Health, Deniz is an experienced Yoga for Mental Health teacher with a passion for somatics, nervous system health, emotional well-being, and deep healing of the heart and soul.
Deniz is an experienced teacher trainer with more than 14 years of teaching experience. She has a master’s degree in Criminology and is a certified Yoga Teacher in multiple styles of yoga, including Therapeutic Yoga. Deniz’s gentle and heartful approach to yoga is influenced by other modalities she has studied and practiced, including somatics, Mindfulness, Feldenkrais, intuitive dance, CI, BMC, breathwork, inner child healing, voice work, and shamanic journeying and medicine work.
+ Plus Guest Teachers
Are you ready to become a yoga for mental health teacher and teach therapeutic yoga classes, workshops, and retreats that are warm, nourishing, healing, and transformative?