Online – Transcending Trauma: a Yoga and Neuroscience Approach

with Lila Lolling

March 6 - 27, 2025

Description
This 4-week series uncovers how the nervous system and trauma informs your relationships, habits, and lifestyle choices. By weaving neurosomatic tools with yoga wisdoms and practices, you learn how to transform trauma and regulate your nervous system in the moment. When your nervous system is overstimulated, overwhelmed, or exhausted, you lose the energy and focus needed to implement positive lifestyle changes. Your prana gets depleted, taking your will power with it. Without will power, implementing lasting change is nearly impossible.

Classical yogic wisdoms offer a holistic and systematic approach to healing trauma through breathwork, meditation, devotion, movement, mantra, and more. These ancient practices help you release deep-seated impressions (samskaras) and subtle desires. When you regulate your nervous system and rewire neuro-pathways, you successfully create your optimal lifestyle mindset.

Classical yoga sees trauma in a deeply holistic way—integrating your mind, body, and spirit into the healing process. Unlike modern psychology or neuroscience which focus on trauma as a psychological or neurological condition, classical yoga views trauma as an evolutionary stage of spiritual development. Modern science has proven that classical yoga doesn’t just help us cope with trauma—it transforms it.

Course Curriculum

Week 1: Overview of the Nervous System

Nervous system as an operating system for movement, emotions, and habits.
How the nervous system responds to stress: fight, flight, freeze, fawn.
Yoga wisdoms: subtle layers of the nervous system [panchakoshas].

Week 2: Exploring Will Power + Mental Power

Will power: the magic ingredient for lasting change.
Yoga wisdoms: spirituality of change.
The subtle power of mental impressions [samskaras, vasanas].
Yogic practices to improve mental power and enhance will power.

Week 3: Re-defining Trauma’s Imprint

The neuroscience of trauma.
Understanding karma and its role on our spiritual journey.
Re-defining trauma: a protective response or common life experience?
Somatic tools: changing how you respond to trauma-triggers.

Week 4: Neuroplasticity: Rewiring for Positive Change

Neuroplasticity: the brain’s capacity for healing and change.
Yoga wisdoms: tools for changing mental habits and behaviors [viveka, vairagya].
Course wrap-up, reflections, and next steps.

Course Benefits

Uplevel your life with a simple yogic approach to healing.
Redefine your perspective and relationship with trauma.
Rewire your mind for long-term change.
Develop nervous system resiliency in an uncertain world.
Learn neurosomatic tools for nervous system regulation.
Build your ideal lifestyle and a positive mindset.

Key Features

6-month access to all course content.
Course workbook included.
8 hours of continuing education credits from Yoga Alliance and IAYT.
If unable to attend live, session recordings will be sent next day.
ASL Interpreter provided.

How it Works

Every Thursday in March, we gather for a 90-minute live, interactive zoom class that shares theory and practices, while giving you time to process and digest the information in a supportive group setting. This course is open to all who have a nervous system

and offers 8 hours of Yoga Alliance and IAYT continuing education credits for yoga teachers and yoga therapists.

If you are unable to attend the live course, a replay will be sent to you the following day.

Teacher

Lila Lolling
Lila Lolling is the author of Walking the Ancient Path of Yoga and founder of EcoYoga Life and is a Sivananda affiliate teacher for over 20 years. She is also a graduate of the Omega Institute’s Ecological Literacy program and Permaculture Course. She advocates for the blending of…
Learn more about Lila Lolling