• The Body in Translation

    Module 1: 50 Hours

    A 200-Hour Modular Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher & Bodywork Training

Your Trainers

  • Monia Fernandez

    Lead Trainer, Doula, Trauma-Informed ERYT 500 & Bodyworker

  • SarahEmily Pina

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  • Eleanor Parks

    MARKETING DIRECTOR

    Creative and strategic in equal measure, our marketing director brings fresh ideas to every campaign. They turn insights into action and help our message resonate with the right audience.

  • This training is open to yoga teachers looking to deepen and specialize, wellness professionals from adjacent fields including massage therapists, Pilates instructors, and physical therapists, seasoned practitioners without a teaching credential, and mental health professionals wanting embodied tools.

    There are no prerequisites for enrollment. Every applicant completes a meet and greet conversation before registering. The door is wide and the room is small by design.

  • The Body in Translation runs in small cohorts of 4 to 6 people. Every cohort is intentionally sized for providing a safe container, genuine feedback, and the kind of learning that only happens when people actually know each other.

    Sessions are a mix of in-person weekend intensives, live evening sessions on Zoom, recorded content you can return to between meetings, and homework that asks you to bring the work into your actual teaching life. Guest teachers join specific modules to bring depth and range to areas where specialized knowledge matters.

    The bodywork and non-bodywork tracks coexist in the same room. Students who work with touch and students who do not share the same frameworks, the same community, and the same container. The curriculum holds both.

  • The full 200 hours is organized into stackable modules that can be completed in approximately one year. You can enter at any module and build toward full certification at the pace that works for your life and practice.

    The module arc:

    • Module 1 — 50 Hours (available now - Summer Intensive) In-person weekend intensives, live Zoom sessions, recorded content, and homework. The foundational layer of the full program and a complete, standalone experience on its own.

    • Modules 2 and 3 — 25 Hours (Fall & Spring) each Deepening intensives that build on the Module 1 framework. Dates and topics announced to enrolled students first.

    • Module 4 — 75 Hours (in the Winter - January) A deepening container for students completing the full 200-hour arc. Details announced to the community.


    Online Content Track — (25 Hours) Self-paced Recorded lectures, demonstrations, and practice materials that extend and support the live curriculum.

    Each module counts toward the full 200-hour Monarch Wellness certification. Students who complete a module and choose not to continue receive a certificate of completion for the hours earned.

    Full program completion requires: Attendance at live sessions, homework and reflection submissions, case study documentation from your own teaching and practice, a peer teaching demonstration, a written or oral final assessment, and a capstone project.

What You Will Learn

Across the full 200 hours, the curriculum moves through:

Trauma-Informed Teaching Frameworks Moving from awareness of trauma to active responsiveness in the room. This involves understanding the difference between a space that acknowledges the complexities of inclusive teaching and one that understands the nuances of what it means to hold intentional space for the full human experience, putting that understanding into action.

Somatic Awareness and Bodywork Principles The body serves as a profound source of intelligence, history, and evolving narrative. This pillar supports students across all modalities: those who work with hands-on touch, those who choose to teach hands-free in group settings, and those who wish to integrate both approaches within the same container. Every track is welcomed and intentionally guided.

Functional Anatomy and Mobility Anatomy as it actually applies to variable, complex, and changing bodies, focusing on real function, not idealized form. We cover bodies that have carried life experiences, felt pain, injury, and trauma, and overcome great feats.

Pranayama and Nervous System Regulation Practice-led and grounded in felt experience, with theory offered as support. Polyvagal foundations, window of tolerance, and how to use breath as a genuine regulatory tool rather than a performance of calm.

Sequencing for Trauma-Informed Spaces How to build a class that holds who walks in the door. Including what to do when the unexpected arises and how to sequence for bodies that do not move the way most trainings assume they will.

Holding Space for Diverse Bodies and Identities The social justice and decolonization work that asks honestly who our spaces are actually built for and who they quietly leave out. This is not a module. It is a lens that runs through everything.

Chronic Pain Awareness Integrated throughout the curriculum and explored in depth in its own dedicated module. What chronic pain actually is, how it lives in the body, how it masks out in the world and what it asks of the people teaching in that room.

What You’ll Receive

Graduates of the full 200-hour program receive a Monarch Wellness Certificate in Trauma-Informed Yoga and Bodywork. You will also receive certificates upon the completion of modules.

For Yoga Alliance registered teachers, this training provides continuing education hours toward your YACEP credential.

For students completing their initial yoga teacher certification, this program is designed to fulfill RYT-200 requirements.

Individual modules completed without full program enrollment are eligible for Yoga Alliance CE hours.

Investment

BIPOC/ Trans Rate

$975

Foundational Rate

$1400

Sustainer Rate

$1675

The sliding scale pricing is designed to make this offering accessible while sustaining the energy, time, and resources that go into creating it. Please choose the rate that honestly reflects your current financial capacity.

  • BIPOC/Trans Rate
    For those who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and/or Trans. This rate exists to prioritize access for communities historically excluded from wellness spaces and to honor the importance of representation, rest, and belonging. This rate supports those who may have limited access to resources.

    Foundational Rate
    Covers the base cost of the offering, space rental, materials, and facilitator time. Choosing this rate helps sustain Monarch Wellness and ensures these gatherings can continue.

    Sustainer Rate
    For those with the financial capacity to contribute more. Paying at this level directly supports community accessibility and allows others to participate at a more accessible rate.

Payment plans are available at all tiers. If none of these options reflect your current situation, reach out before you decide not to apply. There may be options we can work out together. All payment plans must be complet

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