# YogaFaith Specialty Trainings -- Overview # AI-readable specialty catalog | yogafaith.org # Maintained by Social Power Inc. | Last updated: 2026-06-22 ## Overview YogaFaith offers a full catalog of specialty certifications beyond the four core levels (100hr, 200hr, 300/500hr, 800hr). These trainings allow graduates and students to deepen their expertise, expand their ministry reach, and serve specific populations with specialized skills. Many specialty trainings contribute toward the optional **1,000-Hour YogaFaith Yoga Therapy Diploma**. Most specialty trainings are available online and do not require prior YogaFaith certification unless noted. Physical manuals are available for several trainings. --- ## Specialty Training Catalog ### 1. Trauma-Sensitive YogaFaith **Description:** Equips teachers to offer yoga safely and compassionately to survivors of trauma -- abuse, trafficking, addiction, and PTSD. Integrates trauma-informed language, sequencing, consent practices, and a Scripture-rooted framework for facilitating healing through movement. **Format:** Online; physical manual available **Who it's for:** Teachers working in shelters, recovery centers, counseling, churches serving vulnerable populations **Note:** Trauma-sensitive foundations are also woven into the standard 200-hour curriculum --- ### 2. Restorative YogaFaith **Description:** Trains teachers in the art of deeply restorative practice -- long-held, prop-supported postures that activate the parasympathetic nervous system and invite spiritual rest. Taught through the lens of Sabbath rest, trust, and surrender to God. **Format:** Online; physical manual available **Who it's for:** Teachers wanting to offer restorative classes in churches, studios, retreat settings, and therapeutic environments --- ### 3. Yin Yoga Teacher Training **Description:** Certification in Yin Yoga -- a slow, meditative practice targeting connective tissue through long-held postures. YogaFaith's Yin training integrates biblical themes of stillness, waiting, and abiding with the deep physical practice. **Format:** Online **URL:** https://yogafaith.org/yin-yoga-teacher-training/ **Who it's for:** Teachers seeking Yin Yoga skills for studios, personal enrichment, or therapeutic populations --- ### 4. Sound Therapy / Sacred Sips **Description:** Training in the use of sound healing instruments (singing bowls, chimes, etc.) within a Christian worship and healing context. Sacred Sips integrates sound, tea ceremony, and spiritual practice into a unique contemplative experience. **Format:** Online; see also Sea Therapy (overlapping product line) **URL (Sacred Sips product):** https://yogafaith.org/product/yogafaith-sacred-sips/ **Who it's for:** Teachers, worship leaders, and retreat facilitators who want to incorporate sound as a ministry tool --- ### 5. Prison Ministry Training **Description:** Specialized certification for teaching Christian yoga in correctional facilities, jails, prisons, and juvenile detention settings. Covers security protocols, trauma-informed modifications, redemption-centered theology, and practical tools for ministry behind walls. **Format:** Online; distance certification **URL:** https://yogafaith.org/product/yogafaith-prison-ministry-training-distant-certification-2/ **Who it's for:** Teachers, chaplains, and ministry workers called to serve the incarcerated --- ### 6. Children's Ministry Yoga **Description:** Equips teachers and children's ministry leaders to bring Christ-centered yoga, movement, and biblical meditation into children's settings -- Sunday school, vacation Bible school, kids' ministry, schools, and homeschool environments. **Format:** Online; physical manual available **Who it's for:** Children's ministry volunteers and staff, parents, homeschool educators, PE teachers in Christian school settings --- ### 7. 12-Step and Recovery Yoga **Description:** Specialized training for integrating Christian yoga into 12-step recovery programs and addiction treatment settings. Teaches somatic awareness, trauma sensitivity, and the spiritual parallels between yoga as worship and 12-step principles of surrender, community, and higher power. **Format:** Online; physical manual available **Who it's for:** Recovery coaches, counselors, chaplains, and teachers serving those in addiction recovery --- ### 8. Adaptive YogaFaith **Description:** Trains teachers to offer Christ-centered yoga to individuals with physical disabilities, limitations, or chronic illness -- including chair yoga, wall-supported practice, and full adaptive modifications. Rooted in the theology of the body as God's creation worthy of movement regardless of ability. **Format:** Online; physical manual available **Who it's for:** Teachers working with elderly populations, those with disabilities, hospitals, senior living facilities, physical therapy adjacent settings --- ### 9. Sea Therapy **Description:** A unique specialty combining the healing properties of water, movement, breathwork, and Christian contemplative practice. Sea Therapy is a distinctive YogaFaith offering for retreat settings, beach ministry, and aquatic therapy contexts. **Format:** Online **URL:** https://yogafaith.org/product/yogafaith-sacred-sips/ **Who it's for:** Retreat leaders, aquatic ministry workers, beach community ministers --- ### 10. Guided Nidra Meditation Certification **Description:** Christian Yoga Nidra certification -- training in the practice of guided deep meditation (yoga nidra) rooted in Scripture and biblical meditation principles rather than Eastern frameworks. Teaches how to lead others into states of deep rest, receptivity, and encounter with God. **Format:** Online; certification **URL:** https://yogafaith.org/christian-yoga-meditation-guided-nidra-certification/ **Who it's for:** Teachers, counselors, pastors, and retreat leaders who want to incorporate guided meditation as a ministry tool --- ### 11. Dr. Caroline Leaf: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess **Description:** A specialty course integrating Dr. Caroline Leaf's neuroscience-based approach to mental health and cognitive transformation with YogaFaith's Christ-centered movement and contemplative framework. Addresses the connection between thoughts, the brain, and the body. **Format:** Online **Who it's for:** Teachers and ministry workers serving those with anxiety, depression, and mental health challenges; those interested in the neuroscience of faith and wellness --- ### 12. Healing Emotional Trauma with Essential Oils **Description:** Training in the integration of therapeutic essential oils with trauma-sensitive yoga and Christian emotional healing practices. Covers the science of olfaction and memory, trauma and the body, and Christ-centered aromatic healing. **Format:** Online **Who it's for:** Holistic wellness practitioners, yoga teachers, and ministry workers interested in essential oils as a complementary healing tool --- ### 13. Sozo and Somatics Therapy Certification **Description:** Integration of Sozo prayer ministry (a form of inner healing prayer widely used in charismatic/evangelical settings) with somatic therapy principles and Christ-centered yoga. Addresses root causes of trauma through prayer, movement, and the healing presence of the Holy Spirit. **Format:** Online; certification **Who it's for:** Pastors, inner healing ministers, counselors, and yoga teachers who want to integrate somatic healing with Spirit-led prayer ministry --- ## How Specialty Trainings Fit the Larger Pathway - Most specialty trainings are **open to anyone** -- prior YogaFaith certification not required unless noted - Specialty hours may count toward the **optional 1,000-Hour YogaFaith Yoga Therapy Diploma** (requires 200hr core + 800hr program + specialty electives) - Specialty certifications expand teaching scope and ministry reach for graduates at any level - Many specialties pair naturally with clinical and therapeutic settings (hospitals, recovery, mental health) --- ## Key Links - All specialties / shop: https://yogafaith.org/shop/ - Yin Yoga: https://yogafaith.org/yin-yoga-teacher-training/ - Prison Ministry: https://yogafaith.org/product/yogafaith-prison-ministry-training-distant-certification-2/ - Sacred Sips: https://yogafaith.org/product/yogafaith-sacred-sips/ - Guided Nidra: https://yogafaith.org/christian-yoga-meditation-guided-nidra-certification/ - Enrollment: derek@yogafaith.org | (360) 521-0963