Jala Yoga

09/09/2025

Scholarships now open for our 350hr Trauma-Informed YTT

At Jala Yoga®, we believe yoga education should be accessible to everyone - not just those with financial privilege.

That’s why we’re so proud to offer scholarship places for our 2026 350hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training, based on the Gold Coast and open to students across Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay & Northern NSW.

These scholarships are designed to support people who’ve faced barriers to yoga teacher training and who are committed to bringing trauma-informed, inclusive yoga into schools, healthcare, prisons, and community spaces. We even offer career pathways via our official partners.

Applications are open Sept 1–30th 2025.

Learn more about why we’re offering scholarships (and how to apply) in our latest blog:
https://www.jalayoga.co/blog/creating-more-pathways-into-yoga-why-we-re-offering-scholarships

16/07/2025

11/07/2025

This NAIDOC Week marks 50 years of celebrating the strength, culture, and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 🖤💛❤️

It’s also a time to reflect on what it means to listen deeply, honour Country, and practice cultural humility - especially for those of us teaching, caring, or holding space on unceded land.

This blog explores the concept of Dadirri, shared by Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann of the Ngangikurungkurr people, and the significance of the Wangan and Jagalingou people’s recent win in protecting the sacred Doongmabulla Springs. It also invites us to consider what culturally responsive practice can look like in yoga and human services.

For those working in healing, education, or wellbeing, this reflection may offer grounding, guidance, and a call to keep listening.

With deep respect to the Traditional Custodians of these lands and waters.

Always was, always will be. 🖤💛❤️

Read the full post:

Exploring the role of yoga, Dadirri, and cultural humility during NAIDOC Week through stories of resistance, reverence, and relationship. 2026 Jala Yoga 350hr Teacher Training | Cultural Responsiveness & Yoga | Available Gold Coast & Remote Access Nation-wide

02/07/2025

There’s a growing wave of practitioners who know: the body must be part of the conversation.

Health professionals seeking practical tools for nervous system support, emotional regulation, and embodied safety ~ to use with real clients in real-world settings.

Yoga teachers committed to offering more inclusive, adaptive, and trauma-informed care ~ beyond the studio.

Our 350hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training was designed for this exact intersection.

〰️Interdisciplinary.
〰️Evidence-based.
〰️Co-led by clinicians from physio, OT, psych, TCM, women’s health, exercise science & more.

You’ll graduate with tools you can immediately apply — whether in clinical practice, private sessions, or group classes.

Study remotely or join us on the Gold Coast.

Early bird ends sooon — save on your course fees by enrolling early!

DM us for more info, or book an obligation free complementary discovery call to chat about how the course could fit you 〰️

www.jalayoga.co

01/07/2025

🔥 We’ve never done this before… 🔥

For the first time ever, we’re giving you access to a full lecture from our 350hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training — no strings attached.

Inside the sneak peek, you’ll meet (one of our lead facilitators) and explore the roots of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — including how this text fits into the broader philosophical systems of yoga.

Whether you’re a yoga and/ or pilates teacher, health professional, or simply exploring your next step in your career pathways...

If you’re seeking a training grounded in trauma-informed care, cultural respect, and embodied clarity — this free sneak peek is for you.

It’s a chance to feel what it’s really like to learn with us.

Get your free philosophy lecture today via the website in our bio 🔥

01/07/2025

Curious about deepening your yoga teaching in a trauma-informed, evidence-based way?

We have just opened up free access to a sneak peek inside our Jala Yoga® 350hr Trauma-Informed Teacher Training — and if you’re exploring your next training, this might be the insight you’ve been waiting for.

This isn’t surface-level yoga education. It’s a heart-forward, brain-based training that bridges traditional yoga, somatics, neuroscience, psychology, trauma-informed frameworks and mental health — created in collaboration with allied health professionals.

In the sneak peek, you’ll get to:

Watch a real lecture from our Philosophical Foundations module
Get a feel for our teaching style and trauma-informed lens
See how we blend East + West to prepare you for private work, group facilitation, or integration into healthcare and community settings

Early bird is now open — save $750 when you enrol in July 2025 for our 2026 cohort.

Full remote access and flexible scheduling available for interstate or international students.

Access the free preview here:
https://www.jalayoga.co/pl/2148687583

Have questions? I’m happy to chat! Pop a comment below or DM me

Get instant access to a full lecture from the Jala Yoga® 350hr Teacher Training. See what makes our trauma-informed, evidence-based approach truly different. Jala Yoga 350hr Trauma-informed Teacher Training

30/06/2025

🌱 words with resonance: volume two 🌱

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29/06/2025

What makes a YTT trauma-informed — and why does it matter now more than ever?

As trauma, anxiety, grief and chronic illness show up more and more in the people attending our yoga classes ~ as teachers, we need to do better than scripts, sequencing, and peak poses.

A trauma-informed yoga teacher training teaches you how to:
🌱Read nervous system cues
🌱Offer true choice and agency
🌱Create safety — not just teach shapes
🌱Understand the link between trauma, the body, and breath

In 2025, trauma-informed teaching isn’t a niche offering. It’s essential.

🌱 New blog now live 🌱

Tap the link in bio to read the full blog or explore our 350hr YTT.

🚨 EARLY BIRD SALES END SOON 🚨

29/06/2025

GRADUATE STORY: SMALL MOVEMENTS, DEEP IMPACT

From social work to prison yoga — meet Villia, a Jala Yoga® graduate who’s using trauma-informed yoga to change lives in schools, hospitals, and correctional centres.

In her words:
“Yoga ethics are not a checklist for moral superiority. They are tools for practicing care, presence, and choice in difficult places.”
Villia joined our 350hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training with the vision to support all corners of our communities — and she’s now doing exactly that.

Since graduating, she’s:
• Facilitated high school wellbeing programs
• Taught for QHealth and Heal.ed Tribe
• Represented Jala Yoga at SWELL Festival
• Become a Prison Yoga teacher for Yoga on the Inside
• …and now teaches a module in our Jala Yoga 350hr Trauma-informed Yoga Training on "Yoga + social justice"

If you're a yoga teacher, social worker, clinician, or someone who believes yoga can be more inclusive, more ethical, and more impactful — Villia’s story will speak to your heart.

Read the full blog post here: https://www.jalayoga.co/blog/jala-ytt-graduate-story-villia-social-worker

LAST CHANCE to join our 2026 YTT and save $1,000
Our Early Bird pricing ends 30 June 2025.
✔️ Eligible for CPD points
✔️ May be tax deductible for health professionals

Learn more + enrol: https://www.jalayoga.co/jala-yoga-350hr-teacher-training

Let’s make yoga more accessible, more trauma-informed, and more human — together.

https://www.jalayoga.co/blog/jala-ytt-graduate-story-villia-social-worker

Read how a Social worker turned Jala Yoga 350hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training Graduate is using trauma-informed yoga to serve prisons, schools, and community spaces.

20/06/2025

🚨 EARLY BIRD ENDING JUNE 30 – SAVE $1000 🚨

TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA & MEDITATION TRAINING | NATIONWIDE ONLINE ACCESS

Are you a Yoga Teacher, Pilates Instructor, or Allied/Medical Health Professional ready to deepen your practice and work more safely, ethically, and effectively with clients?

Our 350hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training is open for enrolment — and for a few more days, you can SAVE $1000 if you enrol before June 30.

Our comprehensive training bridges traditional yoga therapy, Western & Eastern healthcare, evidence-based practice, and trauma-informed care frameworks — designed for professionals who want to bring nervous system-aware, accessible movement and mindfulness to those who need it most.

💡 It may also be tax-deductible as a professional development investment (check with your accountant!). If you’ve been considering upskilling, this is the moment.

- Accredited with Yoga Australia AND Yoga Alliance Australia & International

- Delivered in hybrid format — attend in-person (Currumbin) OR online via HD livestream

- Designed for working professionals (Allied Health, Yoga, Pilates, PT)

Starts January 2026 – spaces are filling quickly.

DM me for the prospectus or visit: www.jalayoga.co/jala-yoga-350hr-teacher-training

18/06/2025

Trauma-informed practice must also be culturally responsive. 🖤💛❤️

At Jala Yoga®, we believe that creating safe, ethical spaces to share yoga in Australia means acknowledging the deep impact of colonisation, intergenerational trauma, and systemic injustice — and actively working to do better.

That’s why our 350hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training includes a dedicated module on working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This module invites students to:
🌱 Explore cultural safety and humility in a yoga context
🌱 Learn respectful, strength-based ways to adapt practices for mob
🌱 Understand the importance of consent, language, and lived experience
🌱 Examine the intersections of trauma, identity, and ongoing colonisation

We don’t offer this as an “extra.”
It’s a core part of becoming a trauma-informed practitioner on stolen land.

And it’s one of the only yoga trainings in Australia to offer this depth of learning.

Enrolments are open now | Spaces filling fast

Early Bird pricing available until June 30 (save $1000).

DM us or email mollie@jalayoga.co for inquiries 🌱

12/06/2025

🌿✨ 11 YEARS OF JALA ✨🌿

11 years ago, Jala Yoga & Counselling began with one intention:

to create spaces where people could breathe, move, heal, and reconnect to themselves.

Since then, Jala has grown into:
• A community of like-minded folk.
• A place where joy and grief sometimes sit side by side.
• A space where nervous systems exhale.
• A bridge between yoga, therapy, play, healthcare, the environment and real life.

And as we step into year 12, something new is coming.

A retreat for your body, your nervous system, your inner child, and your grown-up busy brain that needs a rest.

🪩 The Art of Play - Yoga Retreat 🪩

✍🏼 8-10 March 2026
📍 Byron Bay Hinterland, NSW
🌿 Limited spaces (Jala Retreat VIP guests have already snapped up half the spots!)

As a little birthday gift, early bookings can use the code ELEVEN for 11% off at the time of booking.

Full details soon.

For now, save the date — this is gonna be real fun.

www.jalayoga.co