Train with Us
Whether you realize it or not, you know someone who has been affected by brain injury. We’ve trained over 2,500 yoga teachers and practitioners, clinicians, people with brain injury, caregivers, and others in how to make yoga and meditation accessible to the brain injury community. Join us!
LoveYourBrain Yoga Trainings
In-person and online certification-level trainings and workshops to empower you with essential skills and confidence to offer yoga and meditation for the brain injury community.
LYB Yoga for Traumatic Brain Injury -
Level 1
This comprehensive online 20-hour training is our foundational training, providing you the tools and skills to support the brain injury and concussion community through yoga and meditation. Learn what TBI is and how to make yoga accessible. Explore the research-backed LoveYourBrain Yoga curriculum offered at Partner Studios across the US & Canada. *Required to be certified to facilitate the LYB Yoga program.
LYB Yoga for Health Professionals
A comprehensive, 20-hour, in-person and online training is specifically designed for health professionals working in inpatient to post-acute brain injury services for patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other forms of ABI who want to integrate yoga-based tools into their clinical practice. We dive into a wide array of adaptive yoga, meditation, and pranayama techniques to accommodate a broad range of brain injury symptoms and severity levels. We offer CEUs for OTs through AOTA.
LYB Yoga & Facilitation Training - Level 2
This interactive, 20-hour, online training builds upon our Level 1 training and will equip you with new skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience in accessible yoga and group facilitation specifically designed for brain injury. Explore the LoveYourBrain Mindset curriculum offered online for people around the globe. *Required to be certified to facilitate the LYB Mindset program.
LYB Yoga & Meditation for Brain Injury Training
This 7-hour, pre-recorded online training filmed with Yoga International is designed for anyone interested in learning about how the brain operates, what happens when it’s injured, and how yoga and meditation can be used for healing.
New LYB Mindfulness for TBI Course
FIRST EVER online course to train your mind-and even rewire your brain-for better focus, emotional health, and mental clarity. Over 9 weeks, explore a progression of topics to create a life-changing meditation practice!
We are a qualified provider of Continuing Education (CE) contact hours through Yoga Alliance, and are able to offer CE hours for all trainings.
Meet the incredible teaching teams for the LYB Trainings, with expertise in trauma-informed mindfulness and yoga, somatics, DEI, and community-based programming for brain injury.
What can I expect?
Our trainings cover a range of topics, but typically include:
Hands-on experience learning gentle and chair-based yoga modifications, effective sequencing, and fundamental teaching tips to meet the unique needs of this population
Opportunities to practice-teach with other trainees and receive feedback
Learn and practice-teach meditation and pranayama techniques to focus the mind and calm the nervous system
Learn about neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, the impact of TBI on the individual and family, and how neuroplasticity influences healing
Learn the LYB 6-week FUNdamentals series, which incorporates TBI-focused yoga and meditation best practices, class themes to foster resilience and compassion, and facilitated discussion
Develop connections to the broader LoveYourBrain community and movement to shift the culture around TBI recovery and brain health
Health Professionals Training (in addition to all of the above):
Learn the strengths and weaknesses of research evaluating the feasibility and impact of yoga and meditation for TBI rehabilitation
Learn the science of yoga nidra and how it can be applied to the TBI population to address sleep and mental health concerns
Scholarships
We believe representation matters and strive to make our trainings inclusive, accessible, and diverse. We are committed to disrupting systems of oppression and financial barriers that prevent many from accessing yoga and wellness trainings. This is why we offer scholarship opportunities, as necessary, for people who have a lived experience of TBI, Caregivers of people with TBI, Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC), affiliated LYB partner teachers who offer our free LoveYourBrain programming in their communities, and for clinicians and brain injury advocates who help raise awareness about our programming.
As a non-profit that uses funds raised from our trainings to make programming free for thousands of people in the TBI community, we have limited scholarships available, so kindly ask that applicants are mindful and pay at the highest level they can afford to support others who need to pay less.
Sliding scale scholarships supporting the cost of tuition
Full scholarships covering full tuition
What people are saying about our trainings…
"LoveYourBrain Yoga for Health Professionals reinforced the importance of empowering a client to be their own healer. As an occupational therapist in acute inpatient rehabilitation and certified yoga teacher, the tendency is to provide verbal cues and manual cues to correct alignment and guide a client through movement. This training taught me of the value in providing clients the space to explore their own bodies and increased opportunities to develop their proprioceptive, sensory, motor, and cognitive skills through the use of yoga. After completing this training, I was immediately able to modify the curriculum to implement at both the hospital setting and with a private yoga client with a TBI. The skills I have acquired at this training have been invaluable!"
- Michelle Eng, OT, NYU Rusk Rehabilitation
"Thank you so much for this amazing weekend! I have never been in such an empowering, compassionate, and supportive environment. There was so much love and curiosity in that room. I am still blown away and processing the whole thing. I could go on and on and on about how validating and beneficial the content was. As someone who has been practicing yoga with TBI for many years your modifications and queuing hit the nail on the head over and over again! As you know the healing process from TBI can be an isolating experience but over the past couple months I've been at a point in my healing where I’ve been searching for people to connect with in person. I don't know why it took me my surprise but I wasn't expecting this weekend to be an answer to those prayers. I am so grateful for all the new friends I made. Also I am so grateful that I was able to just do what I could this weekend and truly love and respect my brain!"
- Katie Probst, Yoga Teacher and member of the TBI community
“This training provided me with a fresh perspective regarding the benefits and uses of yoga as a therapeutic tool. The training brought to light subtle changes I could make in my communication approach when speaking with clients and caregivers to support a more encouraging and supportive therapeutic environment.”
- Rennie Saltzman, PT, DPT, Director of Physical Therapy, Pediatric Services, Easter Seals
Any questions?
View our FAQs for all trainings!
You can always reach out to trainings@loveyourbrain.com, for any further questions.