Birth Trauma Training

Learn how to teach yoga for birth trauma.

If you are a perinatal professional, you are very likely to have patients or clients that have experienced perinatal trauma from anytime from conception through to the early postnatal months.

Often, Talking Therapies is the first place someone is signposted for support. However, if you are a movement teacher or bodyworker, you will know the huge potential for healing that is available through working with the body.

"The body keeps the score" as Bessel Van der Kolk says. If someone doesn't address the stress and trauma held within the body, it can prove difficult to fully recover from their experience.

What will I learn?

The workshop that I facilitate on 'Supporting clients with birth trauma' will enable you to:

  • consider environmental factors, such as assessing your venue through a trauma-informed lens

  • practice invitational language rather than command language to enable choice and autonomy

  • reflect on your own nervous system regulation and the impact for attunement and co-regulation

  • practice the concept of titration and pacing sessions or giving options in a group setting

  • use different ways of creating a sense of safety including voice tone, pacing and guided exercises

  • explore how different breathing techniques can support different branches of the nervous system.

The workshop greats a safe container to acknowledge your own birthing experiences or those close to you/ or your clients. Please contact me if you have experienced birth trauma yourself to talk about whether now is a good time to attend this workshop.

Next half-day workshop Friday 20th January. £59

I can also offer bespoke workshops for your organisation.

Online course.

For a pre-recorded version of this workshop that was run through the Yoga Teachers Forum, click below to get instant access.

Mentoring for birth trauma.

Perhaps you are already offering trauma-informed yoga to individuals or groups who have experienced birth trauma and would like to have a safe space to reflect on your teaching style and the practices you offer, handling beginnings and endings, the support you have in place and a space to use embodied listening for yourself.

Or perhaps you have supported an individual or class through a stillbirth or other bereavement and would like to debrief on how you handled it.


I have been offering yoga for birth trauma for many years, having taught pregnancy yoga since 2005. In 2019 and 2020, I formalised my experiential learning with two trauma-informed courses with Aneta Idzcak and Alex Cat.

Running a women's circle for 8 years has developed my capacity for holding space for difficult emotions. To be able to look someone in the eye after a loss and meet that person where they are is the biggest gift you can give them.

What People Are Saying

"I had a series of private online sessions with Tessa as part of my healing process after losing my baby. I always left the sessions feeling calm, relaxed and more balanced. Tessa taught me some invaluable techniques to regulate my nervous system which I still include in my daily practice. She made me feel at ease, listening and responding to how each exercise made me feel and I really looked forward to my sessions with her. I would definitely recommend her expertise to my own yoga clients."

- Rachel

"The love and support you provided was phenomenal. I can't thank you enough for it."

- Ritika