Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher: Trauma-Informed 500hr Course
- Michelle Rae Sobi
- Feb 24
- 6 min read
Updated: Mar 31
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Announcing Our Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher, Trauma-Informed Course at Edge Yoga School
At Edge Yoga School, we are preparing a new learning path for yoga teachers and dedicated students who want a deeper, more integrated way to study, practice, and teach.
Our Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher, Trauma-Informed course is a year-round Yoga + Ayurveda Integration Pathway designed to support real learning through repetition, sangha, tea, anatomy study, book club conversation, and practicum-based teaching experience.
This is not a fast-track certification.
This is a steady, old-school, in-person learning environment with modern flexibility.
What This Course Is
This course is a trauma-informed yoga teacher training pathway that integrates:
Ayurvedic teachings
Yoga anatomy education
Tea as an embodied learning practice
Sangha-based learning
Student leadership development
Practicum workshops and capstone preparation
Students move through the program in a progressive way, beginning with attendance and observation, then moving into shadowing, peer-led participation, and eventually offering workshops and practicum experiences themselves. The schedule is designed to support growth in confidence over time. See the program overview below.
What Makes This Different
Many programs teach information.
This course is designed to help students embody, discuss, practice, and offer what they learn in a community setting.
At Edge Yoga School, we are building this experience around:
Tea and sangha as part of the weekly rhythm
Structured, repeated labs for deeper integration and make-up opportunities
Trauma-informed facilitation and scope-aware teaching language
Hands-on leadership development in real studio-style environments
A capstone pathway supported by repeated workshop experience
Students are not only learning content.
They are learning how to hold space, communicate clearly, and teach responsibly.
A Year-Round Schedule with Nine Weekly Hours
This program is organized as year-round programming with nine weekly hours and repeating sections to allow students flexibility within a stable structure. The schedule is intentionally designed to support make-ups with approval and long-term integration.
Key weekly elements include:
Teach One Another sessions
Capstone Case Study Workshops
Yoga Anatomy Movie Night with worksheets and discussion
Yoga and Ayurveda Book Club
The Art of Tea
Student-Led Tea Ceremony Meditation
Workshop Series practicum offerings
The repeating schedule model allows students to stay engaged while navigating real life, and it supports deeper mastery through continued contact with the material.
The Learning Experience
This course is built for students who want a supportive but serious training container.
Inside the course experience, students can expect:
In-person and live group learning
Tea served as part of a sangha-centered environment
Guided discussion and reflection
Workbook, worksheet, and journal-based integration
Peer learning and student-led development
Practicum workshops open beyond the training container for real teaching readiness
Students progress into leadership roles through the year and gain experience teaching one another, facilitating workshops, and preparing for their capstone project.
Required Study and Authority-Based Learning
The required reading and study for this course:
Yoga & Ayurveda by Dr. David Frawley
Mindsight by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews
Seven Pots of Tea by Nandita Godbole
The Yoga Teacher by Michelle Rae Sobi
Hatha Salutations + Yoga Snippets: Special Edition by Michelle Rae Sobi
A Glimpse of Yoga by Michelle Rae Sobi
Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher: Trauma-Informed by Michelle Rae Sobi
On-demand Podcasts on Substack
These materials support the non-contact reading hours and are intended to be studied alongside the repeating lab schedule so students can integrate what they are learning in real time. The course is designed to honor traditional roots while supporting modern, trauma-informed teaching environments.
Our approach is educational and integrative.
It is not prescriptive and does not replace licensed care.
By enrolling, students agree to the studio policies:
Who This Course Is For
This course may be a good fit for you if you are:
A yoga teacher who wants to integrate Ayurveda in a grounded, ethical way
A teacher seeking trauma-informed language and professional clarity
A student who learns best through community, conversation, and practice
Someone who values tea, rhythm, reflection, and embodied learning
A practitioner who wants a flexible structure without losing accountability
Has the bandwidth in their life to commit to a long arc deep dive of yogic living
A Nod to Balance
The spirit of Edge Yoga School is flexibility within stability.
We encourage students to join when they truly have the time and bandwidth to engage the material well. At the same time, we understand life happens. The program includes a grace period and repeating schedule access so students can complete requirements with integrity while honoring real-life circumstances.
This reflects how we teach at Edge:
steady structure
reasonable pacing
clear expectations
compassionate support
REQUIRED READING FOR AYURVEDIC YOGA TEACHER TRAUMA-INFORMED
500hr Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher
 The purpose of the required readings is to give students access to established voices in yoga, anatomy, mindfulness, Ayurveda, and related educational frameworks so they can learn directly from qualified authors in each subject area. These texts help students build knowledge, perspective, and professional discernment while reinforcing that yoga teachers are responsible for staying within their scope of practice, honoring the expertise of licensed and credentialed professionals, and referring out when a topic moves beyond the role of yoga education.
 *Books are not included in tuition.

 SCOPE OF PRACTICE
Teachers shall represent their qualifications honestly and provide only the services they are qualified and certified to perform. Teachers shall not give medical advice. Teachers shall not recommend treatment, diagnose a condition, or suggest that a student disregard medical advice. Teachers shall refer their students to medical doctors or complimentary licensed professionals when appropriate.


By enrolling, students agree to the studio policies:
BOOK COLLECTION BY MICHELLE RAE SOBI
Enrolled students will refer to the following published text in tandem with the manual. Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher: The Manual
Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Manual is a foundational text for yoga teachers and wellness professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of yoga through an Ayurvedic and trauma-informed lens.
A Glimpse of Yoga 
by Michelle Rae Sobi
Students learn foundational yoga concepts through guided study, reflection, and simple integration practices that support both personal understanding and teaching growth. This text and provided workbook pairing helps them organize what they are learning while building clarity, confidence, and a stronger connection to the broader path of yoga.
The Yoga Teacher
 by Michelle Rae Sobi
Students learn the core responsibilities, perspective, and professional foundations of being a yoga teacher within a thoughtful and student-centered framework. This text helps them deepen their understanding of teaching as both a practical skill and an embodied path rooted in clarity, ethics, and continued self-study.

Hatha Salutations + Yoga Snippets: Special Edition 
by Michelle Rae Sobi
Students learn how to build greater confidence with warm-ups, cool downs, and transitions that support a well-rounded yoga class. This special edition includes Yoga Snippets, Michelle Rae Sobi’s original manual, offering cues, qualities, modifications, and teaching elements that support flow, clarity, and continuity in practice.
Integrated Yoga Pathway: The Workbook by Michelle Rae Sobi
Students learn how to organize their learning, reflections, and teaching development in a structured and practical way. This workbook supports integration by helping them turn study into personal insight and usable teaching material.

*This workbook is provided to students upon enrollment
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation 
by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
Mindsight is included as an educational text to help students better understand awareness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal sensitivity through the author’s framework. It supports reflective learning and professional boundaries within yoga teaching, without preparing students to diagnose, treat, or provide mental health care.
ISBN-13: 9780553386394


The Seven Pots of Tea
 by Nandita Godbole
Students learn how tea can be explored as a mindful ritual that supports reflection, seasonal awareness, and lifestyle-based learning. This book encourages a deeper appreciation for tea as part of a calm, intentional, and educational wellness practice. Tea is presented as a yoga lifestyle and educational practice only, intended to support reflection, routine, and mindful learning, not diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice
ISBN-13: 9781940957258
Yoga Anatomy 3rd Edition
 Kaminoff & Matthews
Students learn the foundational anatomy needed to understand movement, structure, and functional support in yoga practice. This text helps them develop a stronger anatomical framework for safer teaching and more informed class design.
ISBN-13: 9781492596479


Yoga & Ayurveda
 Dr. David Frawley
Students learn the classical relationship between yoga and Ayurveda through the lens of daily rhythm, balance, and traditional lifestyle principles. This book helps them understand how yogic practice can be supported by seasonal awareness and simple, grounded routines.
ISBN-13: 9780914955818
Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Trauma-Informed: Online Course

Substack lessons are provided as guided educational companions to the required readings. They help students move through each text with structure, reflection, and clear integration, highlighting key themes, teaching takeaways, and professional boundaries while keeping the learning rooted in yoga education, and they do not replace the authority, expertise, or original teaching found in the text itself.
No sign in is required to access the material but a user account may be required to access the material.
By enrolling, students agree to the studio policies:
Interested in This Pathway?
If this speaks to you, I invite you to join the waitlist for the Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher: Trauma-Informed program at Edge Yoga School.
This training is rooted in yoga, tea, sangha, rhythm, and steady practice, with a trauma-informed approach designed to support real learning in real life.
By enrolling, students agree to the studio policies:
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