Trauma Informed Movement

Welcome to the 2024 Trauma-Informed Movement Program, a unique educational approach designed for movement educators to understand and integrate trauma-informed principles into their practices. This program emphasizes not diagnosing or curing, but providing targeted practices to enhance student experiences, focusing on rebuilding body awareness, encouraging movement curiosity, and fostering autonomous bodily choices.

Three-Tier Model of Trauma Informed Movement

Our curriculum is based on the Three-Tier Model of Trauma-Informed Movement, aiming to create an interconnected experience for educators and students. The tiers cover:

1. Understanding Trauma: Dive into the relationship between trauma, attachment, and lifelong relationships, understanding how childhood experiences influence brain development and cultural perceptions.   

2. Health, Vitality, and Movement: Learn about the health implications of early trauma and its impact on adult movement and breath, highlighting the importance of addressing these risks in movement practices. 

3. Nervous System, Breath, and Whole Body Integration: Explore a holistic approach to the nervous system, teaching how to cultivate a connected, curious, and safe movement experience, understanding the signs of nervous system dysregulation, and strategies for reconnection. Trauma impacts movement, a body-based approach that assists in unwinding stored energy in the fascia, tissues, muscles, and joints. 

The Trauma Impacts Movement Approach, woven into a 10-week online course, invites students and educators to explore physicality through movement, awareness, and nervous system knowledge, fostering curiosity, inquiry, and integration to instigate behavior change. Our program supports empowerment, clear communication, reflection, resilience, and the importance of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. It aligns with continuous education and self-reflection to address trauma's widespread impact, aiming to empower educators to support their students effectively. 

Enrollment includes weekly Zoom meetings, access to our Ruzuku online platform, one-on-one sessions, and a copy of the Trauma Impacts Movement book. Cohort and individual models are available. For more details and enrollment, please get in touch with us via studiotpil595@gmail.com

Additionally, join our biweekly podcast "Embracing Change: Talking through Trauma" on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and iHeart Radio, designed for fitness enthusiasts and professionals eager to address complex topics and dismantle barriers within the fitness industry.

Tami Lysher, ECE, MA, Certified Instructor

Tami Lysher, ECE, MA, Certified Instructor and Owner of Studio T Pilates, has more than 30 years in the field of early childhood development, including teaching 15 years at the University of Michigan, Flint. Tami has been a Train the Trainer on all subjects related to Early Childhood Education and has provided extensive training on trauma effects to college students and community organizations.

Tami specializes in child development and children’s yoga and movements and practices thoughtful and reflexive Pilates and yoga to promote both physical and mental well-being. Her mission is to make a difference through one movement, one stretch, and one breath at a time. Her classes included children’s yoga, Karma Kids Yoga, Little Flower Yoga, Trauma Informed Yoga for Teens, Balance Body Pilates, Stott Pilates, and McEntire Pilates-Comprehensive. In addition, she has taught many arms of fitness over the last 35 years including spinning, TRX, Pink Ribbon, Brain Speed, and more.