Events & Workshops
About the Facilitator
Caz Pringle-Bowden is a registered counsellor, 500-hour RYT yoga teacher, and fitness professional. As a neurodivergent woman, she brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her teaching, specialising in trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, and invisible illness-aware approaches. You can learn more about Caz at cazpringlebowden.com.au
Yoga for Resilience & Recovery – Introductory Workshop
with Caz Pringle-Bowden
10:00am — 12:30pm
Saturday, Feburary 7, 2026
$89
Curious about how yoga can better support neurodivergent brains, those impacted by trauma, or people who are living with and managing invisible / chronic illness? This 2.5-hour workshop offers a taste of the upcoming 30-hour Yoga for Resilience & Recovery Teacher Training running at AYA in April–May led by AYA YTT faculty member Caz Pringle-Bowden.
What You’ll Experience
This session introduces key ideas from the full training:
- How to create inclusive, compassionate spaces for all bodies and brains.
- Understanding the impacts of neurodivergence, trauma, and invisible illness on yoga and movement practice and why adapting the way we teach can be hugely supportive for these groups.
- Practical tools for inclusive cueing, language, studio considerations and class adaptations.
- Strategies for supporting nervous system regulation and resilience.
You’ll leave with insights and tangible skills you can apply right away in your teaching or practice, along with a sense of how the extended training can deepen your knowledge.
Who It’s For
Yoga teachers, movement educators, health practitioners, and carers who want to build inclusive, trauma-informed, and neuro-affirming practices.
About the Facilitator
Renée is a trauma-informed yoga facilitator and educator and works to make workplaces kinder and more psychologically safe through the social enterprise she’s founded, ‘Trauma Informed Leadership’, supporting leaders and organisations with transformational learning on evidence based leadership practices and transformational change.
With training in Hatha/Vinyasa, Yin and Yoga Nidra, Renee facilitates trauma-informed yoga with a special interest in supporting those from disadvantaged backgrounds, complex trauma, accessibility and mental health challenges.
A passionate believer that the world being more trauma-informed makes it better for everyone, Renée is currently completing her Level 2/300 hour teacher training with the Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) program and has completed the Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies via the Boston Trauma Centre (founded by Bessel van der Kolk, researcher and author of ‘The Body Keeps the Score’). She’s also a vocal advocate for complex trauma survivors, and mental health, regularly speaking and writing about the importance of trauma-informed practices, better leadership and healthier workplaces.
Trauma Informed Workshop – The Body Keeps the Score: How trauma + chronic stress show up on the mat
with Renee Robson
10:30am — 1:30pm
Saturday, March 14, 2026
$89
This workshop is a thoughtful exploration of how our bodies store and respond to significant life events. We’ll balance neurobiology with practical, embodied practices to help you understand the connection between your body, brain, and nervous system. This session will explore the physical impact of chronic stress and trauma in modern life without requiring any personal disclosure. Through guided, educational content, you will learn how to support your nervous system more effectively, both on and off the yoga mat.
This session draws on foundational work by figures like Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté, providing a compassionate and accessible introduction to the idea that the body holds our life experiences. It is designed to offer a new perspective on resilience and self-awareness that is useful to everyone.
We’ll be:
- Learning the foundational principles of polyvagal theory and the nervous system in clear, everyday language.
- Discovering how focusing on safety, choice, and bodily awareness can help regulate the nervous system.
- Exploring practical “brain bicep curls” – simple exercises to build your capacity for regulation and resilience.
- Participating in a trauma-informed yoga practice that prioritizes personal agency, choice, and a deeper sense of internal awareness (interoception)
You’ll leave with insights and tangible skills you can apply right away in your teaching or practice, along with a sense of how the extended training can deepen your knowledge.
Who It’s For
This workshop is for yoga practitioners, teachers, and anyone in a related field who wants to deepen their understanding of how the body holds stress and trauma. It is also for anyone curious about the connection between their body, mind, and nervous system, regardless of previous yoga experience.