BALI 50H TRAUMA INFORMED FACILITATION SKILLS TTC

BALI 50H TRAUMA INFORMED FACILITATION SKILLS TTC

Guiding is different from holding real human experiences

Refine your facilitation through trauma-informed, ethical, and neurodivergent-inclusive practice.

Introduction

We are living in a time where healing spaces are everywhere, and nervous systems are more overwhelmed than ever.

People are more sensitive, more aware, and more complex. Safety is no longer optional.

It requires facilitators who understand trauma, nervous system responses, neurodivergence, and group dynamics.

The field has evolved.

This is a shift from: charisma → competency intensity → regulation performance → presence

Because trauma-informed is not a trend. It is a baseline.

The world does not need more experiences. It needs better facilitators.

If you feel that, your imposter syndrome ends here.

Through trauma-informed, neurodivergent-aware practice and guided feedback, you develop the capacity to hold diverse human experiences with confidence.

Who is This
Training For

Dedicated yoga practitioners seeking professional certification

Those Stepping Into Facilitation

For those who feel called to guide others but don’t yet feel ready. You’re seeking a strong foundation in trauma-informed, ethical, and inclusive facilitation. You want to understand not just what to offer but how to hold people safely and responsibly.

Aspiring teachers wanting a strong foundation rooted in tradition and science.

Facilitators Building Confidence

For those who have completed a training but still feel unsure stepping into leadership. You want more than theory, you want real experience, clear structure, and grounded confidence. You care deeply, and you’re ready to trust yourself in the moments that matter.

Yogis looking for deep personal transformation and spiritual growth

Practicing Facilitators & Teachers

For yoga teachers, coaches, and space holders who want to refine their craft. You’re ready to deepen your voice, your presence, and your ability to meet real human experiences. You’re moving beyond intuition alone, into skill-based, embodied facilitation.

Anyone eager to join a supportive, global yoga community

Space Holders Expanding Their Capacity

For those already holding space who want to grow their capacity to work with trauma responses. Emotional depth. Group dynamics. Power. Complexity. And to lead with integrity, responsibility, and humanity, not performance.

Why You Should Choose YOGAUNION COURSES

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Yoga Alliance Registered

Graduate with a 50h Yoga Alliance certification that supports your credibility and continuing educatio

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Comprehensive Curriculum

Balance rigorous physical practice with in-depth study of yoga philosophy, anatomy, meditation, pranayama, and teaching methodology.

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Experienced Instructors

Learn from passionate, certified teachers who bring heart, knowledge, and personalized guidance to every class.

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Supportive Community

Train within a welcoming community that fosters connection, encouragement, and shared growth.

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Immersive Location

Practice daily surrounded by Bali’s lush nature and rich spiritual culture — an environment that nourishes body, mind, and soul.

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Lifelong Support

Join a vibrant worldwide network offering continued mentorship, resources, and opportunities long after your training ends.

Why YogaUnion Bali

Hands-On Facilitation Training

This training is built for the reality of holding space, not just understanding it.

You will move beyond theory into direct experience, learning how to open, guide, and close spaces with clarity and confidence.

Through daily peer facilitation, crisis simulations, and real-time application, you will develop the skills to respond to what actually happens in a room: emotions, silence, resistance, or overwhelm.

Guided Mentorship & Skill Development

Growth happens through reflection and refinement.

Throughout the training, you will receive structured feedback on your facilitation, your language, presence, pacing, and decision-making.

This is a space where you are supported, challenged, and guided to develop your own leadership style with more clarity and responsibility.

Structured Frameworks with Authentic Leadership

You will learn clear facilitation frameworks, how to sequence sessions, manage group dynamics, and create safe, ethical containers.

At the same time, you will be encouraged to find your own voice.

This is not about copying a method, but about developing a way of facilitating that feels grounded, honest, and aligned with who you are.

Trauma-Informed & Neurodivergent-Inclusive Approach

This training centers on working with real human complexity.

You will learn how trauma responses show up in group spaces, how to recognize overwhelm, and how to respond with care.

You will also develop the skills to include neurodivergent participants, adapting language, structure, and environment so more people can feel safe and able to participate.

This Is Not Bypass

We do not transcend the human experience here. We study it. We respect it. 

We work with: 

  • Trauma responses
  • Attachment patterns
  • Projection
  • Emotional waves
  • Sensory overload 
  • Power dynamics
  • Dependency risks

We honor the sacred. But we anchor it in nervous system reality. Because spirituality without humanity becomes bypass. And humanity without skill becomes harm.

What is Included

Facilitation manual with practical tools and frameworks

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Daily vegetarian meals

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Comfortable on-site accommodation options

Curated scripts, case studies, music playlists and scientific researches for real human experiences

About This Course

The Mission

At Yoga Union, we go beyond technique and into the responsibility of holding real human experiences.

Our 50h Trauma-Informed Facilitation Skills training exists to support facilitators in becoming clear, grounded, and ethical leaders, capable of holding space with confidence, integrity, and care.

Through practice, reflection, and embodied learning, we develop the skills to work with trauma, nervous system responses, and neurodivergence in a real and applicable way.

Because facilitation is not just about guiding.

It is about how we meet people, with presence, clarity, and responsibility.

The Course

This is a 5-day immersive training designed to develop real facilitation skills through direct experience, structured learning, and consistent practice.

The course is built around elements each representing a key dimension of facilitation: safety, emotional capacity, leadership, inclusivity, and responsible use of the sacred.

Each day follows a clear structure that allows you to both experience and apply the work.

You will begin the day by receiving trauma-informed practices, learning what safe and inclusive facilitation actually feels like in your own body.

From there, we move into applied theory, not abstract concepts, but practical understanding of trauma, nervous system responses, neurodivergence, group dynamics, and ethical facilitation guided by a neuroscientist and an advanced trauma-informed facilitators. 

In the afternoons, the focus shifts into integration through crisis simulations and peer facilitation.

You will work with real-life scenarios such as emotional overwhelm, dissociation, conflict, and uncertainty, developing the ability to respond with clarity rather than react from pressure.

You will facilitate every day.
You will receive structured feedback.
And you will refine your skills in real time.

This course is not about accumulating information.

It is about building the capacity to hold people, through practice, repetition, and guided support.

The Focus

This training centers on the practical skills required to hold real human experiences with clarity, responsibility, and care. You will develop:

  • Trauma-informed facilitation and ethical containers: learning how to create spaces that reduce harm, support safety, and respect individual autonomy.
  • Nervous system-aware and neurodivergent-inclusive design: adapting your language, structure, and environment to include different ways of processing, feeling, and engaging.
  • Emotional processing, attachment dynamics, and rupture-repair: guiding emotional expression with containment, and knowing how to repair trust when challenges arise.
  • Leadership, power dynamics, and trigger navigation: understanding your role as a facilitator and learning how to work with projection, authority, and activation responsibly.
  • Crisis management and real-time response: developing the ability to stay grounded and respond clearly to situations such as overwhelm, dissociation, or conflict.
  • Music, sound, and sensory awareness: using playlists, silence, and instruments in a way that supports the nervous system rather than overwhelms it
  • Spiritual hygiene and facilitator self-protection: maintaining clear boundaries, preventing burnout, and holding space without overgiving or losing yourself

So you are prepared for what actually happens in a room.

What You Can Expect

You can expect a structured, immersive, and practice-based learning environment designed to build real confidence, not just understanding.

This training is intentionally designed to move you out of theory and into application.

You will not only learn concepts, you will practice them, refine them, and integrate them through direct experience.

Each day includes:

  • Daily facilitation practice: you will guide and be guided, developing confidence through repetition and real-time experience
  • Structured, honest feedback: clear reflections on your language, presence, pacing, and decision-making, so you know exactly how to improve
  • Real-life case studies and crisis simulations: working with situations such as emotional overwhelm, dissociation, conflict, or uncertainty, so you are prepared for what actually happens in a room
  • Clear frameworks and tools: practical structures you can immediately apply to your own classes, workshops, or sessions
  • A grounded and supportive environment: where you are encouraged to grow, make mistakes, and refine your skills without pressure to perform

This is an active training. You will be engaged, challenged, and supported throughout.

What you will experience

You will first experience what safe, clear, and regulated facilitation feels like and then learn how to offer it yourself.

Each day, you will be guided through practices that do not push, override, or assume.

You will feel what choice, consent and clear, respectful language does to your nervous system. From there, you will begin to embody and apply it.

You will experience:

  • Choice-based guidance: where autonomy is respected and participation is never assumed
  • Clear, non-coercive language: learning how words shape safety, trust, and response
  • Emotional processes with containment: allowing expression without overwhelm or collapse
  • Moments of uncertainty: and how to stay grounded and respond rather than react
  • Holding space while staying connected to yourself: without overgiving, fixing, or losing your center

Throughout the training, you will move between both roles: participant and facilitator.

You will feel the impact of facilitation in your own body, and develop the capacity to offer that same level of care, clarity, and presence to others.

Requirements

This training is open to both new and experienced facilitators.

If you have ever felt imposter syndrome when guiding, this space is designed to support you in building real, grounded confidence through practice and feedback.

This training is suitable for:

Yoga teachers, coaches, therapists, facilitators, and space holders as well as those transitioning from personal practice into guiding others

What matters most is:

  • Willingness to learn and be challenged
    • Openness to feedback and reflection
    • Commitment to practicing and refining your skills
    • A genuine care for people and the responsibility of guiding them

You do not need to arrive confident.
You need to arrive willing.

The Completion

This training requires both presence and demonstrated competence.

To receive certification, participants must attend a minimum of 95% of the training hours, ensuring full immersion in the learning process.

In addition, certification is based on your ability to apply what you have learned.

You will be asked to:

  • Participate in daily peer facilitation practices
    • Demonstrate understanding of core concepts throughout the training
    • Complete a final practical facilitation assessment
    • Complete a short theoretical evaluation

This approach ensures that graduation reflects not only attendance, but real readiness.

Those who complete the training will leave with the skills, awareness, and responsibility required to hold space with greater clarity, confidence, and care.

The Take Away

You will leave with more than knowledge, you will leave with real facilitation skills.

  • Clarity in how to structure and guide sessions
    • Confidence built through practice and feedback
    • Tools to navigate emotions and challenging moments
    • Understanding of trauma and nervous system responses
    • Skills to include neurodivergent participants
    • Boundaries that protect your energy

Most importantly, you will leave knowing what to BE when it matters.

Not perfectly but with presence, clarity, and grounded confidence.

Want to Know More? Download the PDF Guide!

How your days will unfold

08:00 – 09:15 | Morning Trauma-Informed Practice

You will experience yoga, somatics, yin, breathwork, and sound facilitated with trauma-informed and neurodivergent-aware language.

Not to learn techniques.

But to feel what safe facilitation actually feels like.

09:15 – 11:00 | Breakfast and Self-Reflection

After your morning practice, enjoy a nourishing plant-based breakfast designed to

refuel your body, balance your energy, and awaken your senses.

We offer fresh, organic meals crafted by health-focused chefs, using tropical fruits and locally sourced ingredients, all inspired by Yogic and Balinese traditions.

It’s more than a meal — it’s a moment to pause, connect, and savor.

Each bite supports your practice and leaves you feeling light, vibrant, and deeply nourished.

A nourishing breakfast followed by embodiment, journaling, reflection, or quiet integration.

11:00 – 13:00 | Theory with Application

Deep dives into trauma, facilitation ethics, crisis response, neurodivergence, group dynamics, music, and sacred design and much more, always applied, never abstract.

13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch & Integration Break

Enjoy a delicious, plant-based lunch. Rooted in ancient principles and crafted by skilled chefs, each meal blends local, organic ingredients, tropical fruits, and superfoods to fuel your body and support your practice.

This is more than just lunch — it’s a flavorful, energizing pause that connects you to the heart of Balinese wellness and embodied living.

14:30 – 15:00 | Q&A and Case Studies

A space to bring your questions, challenges, and real experiences into the room.

Through guided discussion and practical case studies, you will explore common facilitation scenarios, so you move from uncertainty into clarity and know how to respond when it matters.

15:00 – 16:15 | Crisis Simulation Labs

Real-life roleplays:

  • Panic attacks
  • Dissociation
  • Overwhelm
  • Anger
  • Trauma disclosure
  • Dependency dynamics

You will practice responding, not just talking about it.

16:15 – 17:30 | Daily Peer Facilitation

A core part of the training where learning becomes practice.

Each participant will guide short facilitation segments, applying the tools and frameworks explored during the day.

You will receive structured, honest feedback on your language, presence, pacing, and decision-making, so you know exactly how to refine your skills.

17:30 – 18:15 | Integration Rituals

A grounded space to close the day with clarity and care.

Each day is intentionally closed to support your nervous system, reinforce boundaries, and help you leave feeling grounded, contained, consent-based.

Ready for the Adventure?

Moments of Growth

Real people. Real practice. Real transformation.

When you train with us, you earn a certification that opens doors globally and connects you to a supportive network of professionals dedicated to the authentic embodiment of real facilitation.

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Next Available Dates

Dates

August 31 – September 6

March 1 – March 7

Pricing

Ready to Transform Your Practice?

Choose the plan that suits your yoga journey.

No Accomodation

From:

IDR 15.400.000

Includes:

  • 3 meals a day, 6 days a week (excluding days off)

  • Tuition fees

  • Course material

  • Yoga Alliance diploma

Double Room

From:

IDR 17.800.000

Includes:

  • 6 nights (7 days)

  • 3 meals a day, 6 days a week (excluding days off)

  • Tuition fees

  • Course material

  • Yoga Alliance diploma

Private Room

From:

IDR 19.800.000

Includes:

  • 6 nights (7 days)

  • 3 meals a day, 6 days a week (excluding days off)

  • Tuition fees

  • Course material

  • Yoga Alliance diploma

Superior

From:

IDR 21.000.000

Includes:

  • 6 nights (7 days)

  • 3 meals a day, 6 days a week (excluding days off)

  • Tuition fees

  • Course material

  • Yoga Alliance diploma

Family Matters: As a graduate and member of our family, you will enjoy a 10% discount on all future courses.

Please Note:

  • Rooms are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis across several local homestays of similar quality.
  • Flight tickets, transport, and extra activities are not included but can be arranged through our preferred partners.
  • Deposits are non-refundable but can be applied to future Yoga Union Bali trainings if you cancel.

What You Should Know

Skill Level

Open to both beginners and experienced facilitators.

You do not need to feel fully confident to join, this training is designed to support those who are still finding their voice, as well as those refining their leadership.

Whether you are new or experienced, the focus is on building real facilitation skills through practice, feedback, and application.

Language

 

We warmly welcome students from all countries and backgrounds.

All classes, discussions, and course materials are delivered in clear, accessible English to support understanding for non-native speakers.

Please note: All sessions and the final certification process are conducted in English.

Attendance

This is a 50-hour immersive training designed for full participation.

We ask all students to attend at least 95% of the course to ensure proper integration and eligibility for certification.

Each session builds on the next, making your presence an essential part of the learning experience.

Teacher Approach

Our approach is grounded, practical, and human-centered.

We focus on real-life facilitation skills, supporting you to work with trauma, emotions, and group dynamics with clarity and care.

You will be guided with structure, honesty, and respect, within a learning environment that values both growth and responsibility.

Want to know more about this program?

Hit us with your questions, we’d love to hear from you!

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Ubud, Gianyar Regency, Bali 80571, Indonesia.